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 Live Chat with Jake Anderson, May 6, 2008Jump to a Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Discovery: Welcome to our weekly Deadliest Catch chat series. Tonight's guest is Jake Anderson, deckhand aboard the Northwestern. Find out what life behind the scenes is really like with the Hansen brood. Ask Jake about being a part of Season 4 of Deadliest Catch. Jake Anderson: My life has drastically changed now that I've been working on the Northwestern for a year and a half. It's really hard for me to come home because you're so used to all the extreme excitement, the work, and no sleep. I can never sleep now. But as far as people watching the television show about us working, it doesn't do it justice. Half the time, people talk to me as if they could do my job. It's not like I'm trying to brag or be cruel. That's one of the hardest things I have to deal with, my friends talking to me like they talk to some average Joe kid. I work with some of the best crabbers and crews. That's what it's like at home. I'm on a break. I'm trying to stay away from the disappointment. I can't really talk to people; they complain about their 8 hour or 12 hour day and there's no comparison to the work of our crab season. So, I just have to sit there, and really don't have anyone to talk to. Sarahlu03: Hey Jake! How did you end up getting on the Northwestern? How did you get into crab fishing? have you fished anything else? Jake Anderson: I'd been salmon fishing for 12 years. We worked 20 hour days, but everything's not as heavy and it's half as dangerous. But you could die out there too, it's real dangerous. I went up early for the season and I got the boats ready, which means there's a lot of stuff they require to get ready. I dealt with the crews, helped motivate the crews. I worked with my Uncle Mark on the Mark I and on the boat there was Rick McCloud and Brad Parker, two people that were from the Northwestern, both were on the show. I fished for my Uncle Brian, Nicky Mavar's brother. So, you had these three guys and I did King Crab in '06. I had already done a partial Opi season and cod, before I got on the Northwestern. I did not want to go. I'd been fishing for 12 years, pot fishing for a year. I knew how things worked and everything, but I wasn't good at it. So I was on a dragger, got a job after King Crab, when my Uncle Brian called me and told me I'd want to go on the Northwestern. He said "The boat you're on doesn't look like it's going to make you money, it's going to go in the hole." I hate quitting, I had to tell a man I respected I wasn't going to go with him. These are not easy jobs to get. So, if you quit, they basically say I don't ever want to see you again and don't need your help again. Right before January I talked to Sig, at this point I was freaked out. I guess there's a lot of stuff I didn't know. keno43: Jake, who's your favorite Hansen brother? Jake Anderson: Sig's my dad, Edgar's my brother, Norman's my brother. That's how it works, how I see it. I listen to Sig like a father. There's no real favorite. witchyone: You were so eager and willing to learn last year, what has changed your attitude this year? Jake Anderson: When you're new in an industry you're excited to learn. Now, my job is different; now I have a lot more responsibilities, so I have to watch my energy. As far as learning something new every day, I have to do that or I'd get depressed. So, really, I'm just a lot stronger, faster, and smarter than last season. Sugarland: Hi Jake, thanks for sharing your time tonight. How long before the season starts do you have to be in Dutch to get the boat ready to go out? I adore the whole Northwestern crew. May calm seas and full pots always be with you. Jake Anderson: If you're going to do cod fishing, we work extra at the end of each season to get ready for the next season. We get the pots ready and everything. If we take it to Seattle we have no pots so we have to re-rig in August. So, it just depends on which season. Some guys go a week, some a couple weeks, it just depends on the work load you have to do. But it's always good to go early. We've found engine problems before the season. upton: Do you ever check your MySpace page? Jake Anderson: I do sometimes check my MySpace page, and my sister checks it for me. I do try to get in whenever I can. I have no laptop or computer, though. Groovee74: Jake how bad do you hate biting raw live fish? Jake Anderson: I do hate eating the raw fish and stuff. It's not that it's really that bad, it's that I know I'm going to puke and it's gross. I'm clean, brush my teeth every day, the herring is kind of messy and it messes your day up for a while. Sore throat and feeling like crap from getting sick, then you feel like you're going to get sick again. It's all in the name of fun, and it gets you through the day. It's something to do. It's tradition, though, that's why we do it, of bringing crab into your pot. That's the main thing why I do it, not because Edgar wants me to. |
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