FISHING ON
CAMANO ISLAND

Camano Island is one of those places that people don't want to leave. There's nothing better than to go sit on a beach for six hours and enjoy the sun," says 24-year-old Brice Melum, one of the only commercial fishermen still working on the island. Melum fishes the same way he learned as a child from his father: Standing on the shore watching a piece of tin in the water, rowing out and casting his nets when he sees the telltale shadows of a school of smelt swimming over the tin. Most modern fishermen use motorboats to look for smelt, but Melum sticks to his quieter method. "They do it their way," he says comfortably, "and I'll do it mine."

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