Fried Eggs and Fish Scales: Tales from a Sointula Troller

Longtime fisherman and Sointula resident Jon Taylor dishes up hilarious yarns from his life off northern Vancouver Island.

Capturing the “rough but reasonable” freedom of Malcolm Island, Jon Taylor recounts the bizarre but enticing lifestyle of a fisherman and his remote community—“haywire tightwads” for skippers, rotten fish in the hold that become “three thousand humpies in a warm, pink soup,” and the kind of integrity you don’t often see.

Jon Taylor’s family history on Malcolm Island ext...