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Stories & Recipes

Stories & Recipes

"Homeward": by Kristin Vantrease

"You start off small, spherical, orange, translucent.  Immediately, you are surrounded by your family, stuck directly to them, hundreds of your brothers and your sisters.  The water around you,...

AK Wild Woman: Camrin Dengel (Photographer)

"As a photographer and a storyteller, I aim to inspire people to live a slow and connected life, one that is full of raw, organic beauty. Though, life on an Alaskan fishing boat is fast paced...

Custom Projects

Salmon Sisters keeps both of us pretty busy, but sometimes I take on side projects too! I've been making custom designs for all sorts of people. You can see some of the designs I've worked on in ...

AK Wild Woman: Kristin Vantrease (Artist)

We grew up with an amazing girl named Kristin Vantrease. Her linocut prints are beautiful snapshots from the past 13 summers that she has been commercial fishing in Bristol Bay, Kodiak and Prince...

How to Fillet a Wild Salmon

We made a little guide to filleting a fish. This guide is definitely not the only way to fillet, but it's the way we learned when we were kids and it has served us well over the years. We're go...

Salmon Sisters on Alaska News Nightly

“I started designing some screen prints of the fish that we’d catch on the boat,” Emma said. “I always really liked the Japanese-style fish prints, so I started with a rockfish.” “That was ou...

Alaska's Fishermen: The Next Generation // Resources & Education

There are some great opportunities this spring for fishermen of all ages! Get involved in your fishing community and learn a little more about the issues important to your industry. Take a lo...

Valentine's Day Salmon Love Boxes

This Valentine's Day we've partnered up with our friends at the Salmon Project to make special salmon love-inspired gift boxes! The boxes can be ordered for your special fisherman or fisherw...

Glacier Skating

Last weekend's itch to adventure took us across Kachemak Bay by boat, up the Saddle Trail by foot, and across Glacier Lake by skate, to marvel beneath the bluest blues of Grewingk Glacier. Wi...

New Logo!

  We designed a new logo! We're excited for what this year will bring for our little company.

Custom Boat Apparel

Another year - another round of designing for fishing families around Alaska! We received requests from boat-owners around the state for our custom boat apparel and I drew eight vessels at my b...

Introducing: the Salmon Love Hoodie!

We made something new that we're pretty excited about. The new Salmon Love Hoodie is the product of our work with the Salmon Project -- a project about Alaskans and their deep personal connecti...

Our Alaskan Gift Guide

  This year we picked out some of our favorite Alaskan gifts and experiences to share with you for the holidays. Take a look! ...

Salmon Sisters at Fish Expo

In November we made our way to Seattle for the annual Marine Pacific Fish Expo! We shared a booth with the gracious people of Alaska's Sea Grant and had a great time connecting with fishermen...

Salmon Project Book Drop

This week in Homer we got to help organize a great event with the Salmon Project.  We gave away several hundred free copies of David Montgomery's book "The King of Fish," at Two Sisters Baker...

Fishing Photos: Our Instagram Favorites

We love fishing photos. We especially enjoy the ones we've seen recently of our fish-loving followers! We picked a few to share here, but many more can been found under the hashtag #aksalmon...

Salted and True

The beautiful girls I know don’t need to wear makeup. They are beautiful when they’re covered in hydraulic oil and fish scales.  They radiate confidence and competence. Orange raingear become...

Summer's End

Our summer ends today. It is our first night out of our bunks, in real beds. Our first day in many days to be back in Homer, the town we call home. It seems like a long time ago that we trave...

Our Partners

When we started Salmon Sisters, one of the keystones to our vision was that we would be able to give back to organizations and causes that were important to us.  We've felt lucky to find such...

Maritime Scholarship

  This spring Salmon Sisters helped support a local scholarship that was available to the graduating seniors of Homer High School. The Drew Scalzi Memorial Maritime Scholarship was establish...