>>947451Dress clean and presentable, wear a pair of Xtratufs. Fly or drive to Alaska and drive to somewhere like Kenai or Homer and walk to the harbor and find a drift net boat (pic related) and ask if they are willing to hire a greenhorn deckhand. If they say no ask them if they know anyone else that has work, thank them for their time and carry on. Look at flier boards and Craigslist for help wanted ads.
Get up there in April, or even better yet, now. Any boat worth its salt will have all its hands hired months before season.
>clothesGrundens, rubber gloves (like these, most people I knew used the orange ones which were a lighter pair because it allowed them to feel the net better
https://www.palmflex.com/Showa-Atlas-660-Vinylove-Gloves.html) and boots, most people wear Xtratufs it seems. Sadly xtratuf's quality is kind of shit. I forgot the company that still makes quality ones.
>>947512I flew to Alaska last summer, hitchhiked to Homer and had a job on a boat within 24 hours of being in the state having never seen the ocean before in my life. Tell me again about how it can't be done. I worked with someone that flew up there and drove to Homer and posted fliers that they were looking for a job on a boat, and what do you know, they got a job on a boat. Another dude I cleaned fish with somehow got up there from Arkansas and he got a job on a boat because he threatened to punch a guy in the face.
Will OP find a job on a boat like the pic he posted or on a seiner in a good fishery? Fuck no. Will he find a boat on a drift net boat or a set net crew in a meh fishery? If he tries he will.
