Every year since 2009 Skipper Otto’s has carried on a tradition of donating unused shares to community organizations in need of food donations. In the past we have donated to the Vancouver Food Bank, Food Runners, and to several private, low-income families. This summer we donated over $1000 of salmon, tuna, and halibut to Food … Continued

We’re always working towards making the CSF better! A few ways we’ll be doing this in 2015 are: – No online transaction fee – No shipping fees for out-of-town members – Members will be able roll remaining credit over from one year to the next – Membership now goes January 1 – Dec 31 – … Continued

A few days before we were leaving for the prairies, I asked Sonia where Shaun, Krysta and I were going to be staying along the way. It was in that moment that we realized we didn’t really have anywhere to stay. Sonia suggested I send out emails to our members in our different pickup locations … Continued

As you can probably imagine, it takes quite a bit of work to bring 10,000 pounds of BC wild seafood from the coast to the prairies. For the past week, the entire Skipper Otto team has been working hard to prepare for our deliveries to Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Jasper. Shaun, Ariel and Krysta … Continued

If you’ve been loving this year’s albacore tuna, you can thank our fisherman Grey Mcphedran for his catch! Grey has been fishing for almost 40 years up and down the BC coast, and fishing tuna for the past 12 years. Along with his boat, a 48 foot freezer vessel called the Thetis Queen, Grey fishes … Continued

I’ve fished just about non-stop for the past month in the Johnstone Straight.  It’s been good — not as good as 2010, partly because the fish are coming in deeper than they did in 2010 — but I’ve had a good run of it. The fish last night got a bit smaller overall and more … Continued

It was really quiet around here for three days…eerily quiet!  But while Oliver was up fishing with his daddy, Shaun, and his Opa, Otto, I enjoyed a peaceful, quiet, relaxing weekend alone with Lyndon, our 3-year old son.  Lyndon is a great sleeper so I got lots of rest, luxuriated over steaming cups of coffee … Continued

This week, your salmon will be caught by 3 generations of Strobel men. Last week, Otto and Shaun, father and son, started fishing together onboard Omega V.  Days and nights of fishing are just too much for one fishermen to fish alone, especially one who is 73 years old, no matter how tough and resilient … Continued