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Nov. 16 - Dec. 23, 2018
Lindsey’s family has a
history on the water. His
older brother, Richard,
built sailboats and yachts
in California and Florida,
and younger brother Tim
worked for him. Eventually,
Tim returned to Cannon
Beach with a dory boat.
“He and I decided to
try commercial fishing
because there were quite a
number of people going off
the beach every day here
fishing, right by the Needles
next to Haystack Rock,”
Lindsey said. “It was kind
of enchanting. You would
go out in the morning and
come back at dusk.”
After their first foray into
the ocean — where they
caught 65 Chinook salmon
— “we were hooked. It was
good fun.”
Every summer for 15
years, Lindsey spent time
on the ocean, often in his
own dory, the Schmedlow,
trying to replicate that glori-
ous first catch but never
managing to do so.
“The boat was only 20
feet long but very seawor-
thy, considering the size.
You put that on the ocean,
and it was like a mote in the
eye of God, a speck on the
landscape,” Lindsey said.
But things can go “dra-
matically wrong quickly
on a boat in the ocean,”
Lindsey admitted. Some-
times a wave would “erupt
out of nowhere, and there
was a big green wall, and
you were under powered
with your motor going into
it, and it would cave in on
top of you.
“Sometimes people died,
and, thank God (Lindsey
knocked on a wooden table
top), I didn’t.”
Yet, he added, “there’s
something exhilarating
about it.”
The camaraderie among
the fishermen and women
and the potential to make
money superseded the ter-
ror, he said.
‘Just memories’
Dory fishing in Cannon
Beach ended shortly after
the U.S. Supreme Court
decided in 1979 that Wash-
ington State tribes were
entitled to half of the annual
salmon harvest.
Other factors reduced the
inventory as well: adverse
agricultural practices, dam
blockages and increased
fishing by modern vessels
with updated technology,
Lindsey said.
“We were quite dis-
appointed … We were
very close, we were good
friends. We’d have fish fries
in the summer, and, occa-
sionally, we’d have a winter
doryman’s ball. We’d get
together, all of us who
fished in the summertime.
“Now, it’s just memo-
ries.” CW
NANCY MCCARTHY PHOTO
ABOVE LEFT: Cannon Beach author Peter Lindsey with his
new book ‘Just Movin’ the Water Around: Commercial Trolling
with the Cannon Beach Dory Fleet.’
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