About Alldrin and Sons

Lance Alldrin

President, Owner
I spent the summers of ‘84 and ’85 working at Solid Rock Bible Camp in Soldotna Alaska. When able, I spent as much time as possible “exploring” the Kenai Peninsula. One day was spent aboard the Cook Inlet drift boat “Comanche” owned by my Butte College (Oroville CA) drafting instructor the late Arnold Jenson. While finding it great to be on the Inlet in a commercial fishing boat, the seasickness was more than I could handle! Another day was spent on a K beach set net site where I immediately found what appeared to be the greatest job in the world! Vowing to return some day to participate in this industry, I returned home to Chico CA. I currently have 22 years in public education, 12 years as a high school wood/drafting teacher and 10 years as a high school counselor.

Fast forward to 2005. While “cruising” Ebay one evening, I found a set net operation for sale which brought back memories from 1984. We purchased a couple permits/sites in the Kenai Alaska area and fished these until we sold out and bought into the drift net fishery in 2013. At that time we purchased a 40’ “project” gillnetter and permit and started drift fishing in June of that year. In order to learn the ropes without attending the school of hard knocks, I hired a skipper to run my boat while my youngest son Luke, his buddy Andrew and I acted as crew. The hired skipper, Dino Sutherland, arrived with a NatGeoWild camera crew. We are one of four boats on a six-episode series, Alaska Fish Wars Season 2.