Draggerman's Haul: The Personal History of a Connecticut Fishing Captain

Draggerman's haul is the personal history of a Connecticut fishing captain. Captain Thompson was born to the sea, of generations of New England sailors and fishermen. At fifteen he was fishing out of New London aboard his father's boat. At twenty he owned his first Dragger (a commercial trawler.) Still an active draggerman aboard his own vessel, at fifty he can look back on 35 years of adventure on sea and land, and he writes of them with gusto and originality. The story of the baby whale which helped to make Quiambaug famous, of the wreck of the Alice and Jennie, of the dramatic death at sea of the author's younger brother, of how a circus bareback rider named Flo taught the youthful Ellery some of life's facts, and much much more!