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Clip Title: "Hand Flakes and 'the bawn'."
Length: 29 sec.
Credit: Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Bob Trimm:... We carried down all hand flakes, small flakes, and for dry fish we had a great big what they called a bawn -- all little rocks, as big as your fist -- all spread, spread out on that [M: once it got past waterhorse?] yeah.

Mark Ferguson: Did you make that bawn?

BT: It was made! The Frenchman had that made. And we dug the rocks up out of the grass -- we remade it ...

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Clip Title:  "Cooking and his sister's role(s) down north."
Length:  1:01 min.
Credit:  Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Mark Ferguson: So who'd do the cooking?

Bob Trimm: [laughter] first year we was down there we cooked our own ... one'd cook for the four -- take turns cooking, things like that -- that's the way it went ... we got a cook after that .. a sister, a girl, my sister was down there several times... got a little bit of money, probably ten or twenty dollars for the summer -- something like that -- that's all! ... she helped do everything ... she done no fishing -- I bet she could though [laugh].

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Clip Title:  "The perfect fish..."
Length: 1:32 min.
Credit: Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Mark Ferguson :What made a fish a perfect fish? What made a fish a merchantable fish ?

Bob Trimm : Perfect fish was a fish was split right, salted right, dried right and he come out right ... he looked good, no joking about that -- salt would come out on him just like a little flour -- like you sprinkled a little flour and spread it over -- that's all the salt he'd have ... that would be showin' on the face of the fish like ... oh boy it's a long time since all that .... perfect fish wouldn't be salty that's for sure -- he wouldn't be white -- he'd be more of a kind of yellowy colour .... if he was salty, the sun would bring the salt out on him -- West Indy!

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Clip Title: "Fishing the same spot for six years and getting no further ahead."
Length: 1:51 min.
Credit: Bob Trimm
Year: 1993

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Bob Trimm:The four of us went down for six years -- six summers. The seventh -- I was the first one that wouldn't go -- I went in the lumber woods -- I made me fortune there [ironic]. To tell the story right, I landed home, that summer there was no fish in Quirpon at all, I worked in the lumber woods, I landed home with $48. Now me father and the other two men sold everything, give it away, what was on the island, they quit -- give up goin' down. Me father landed home with $6, when he had everything paid of course. He had six dollars! [laughs] To tell the story right now, I come out of the lumber woods after he was home, with me $48. I give him 40. I kept 8 -- buy a bit of baccy for the winter see? So I took an appendix -- carried me down Perlican hospital -- I was there 33 days with appendix -- that's right -- they took them out -- well I had abscesses on the appendix -- caused through a strain of course -- you do that in the lumber woods [laughs]. A while after -- I was home, everything straightened out -- me father got a bill from the hospital -- $40. [laughs] .... Now that's [unclear words] -- I'm not tellin you a lie, I wouldn't tell you a lie. That's the way it was.