Silver on Ice: Onboard Gillie, Gulf of Alaska outside Resurrection Bay
Also known as Silver Salmon, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of Coho Salmon return to Resurrection Bay near Seward, Alaska each summer where they constitute the greatest Coho Salmon sport fishery in the world.
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
John Masefield – Sea Fever, 1912
John Masefield (1878-1967) went to sea at the age of 16. About a year later he deserted ship, initially thereafter living as a vagrant and taking odd jobs, but the awe he experienced on the open sea never left him. Masefield was England’s Poet Laureate from 1930-1967.
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My father, a keen competitive amateur fisher, use to quote the first half of the first line when I was a child. So wonderful to see the full poem. Thanks!
I just pulled out the middle stanza of three stanzas from “Sea Fever.” It has to be one of the most oft-quoted poems of the sea in the English language–cool that you have a connection with it.