Coles, Leslie, Part 2. Interview with Leslie Coles, Deep Bay.

• Main Authors: Pocius, Gerald L., Ferguson, Mark
• Other Authors: Coles, Leslie
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Work; Cod; Cod filleting; Codfish; Fishing premises; Fishing stages; Fishing stores; Flakes; Longers; Salt cod; Splitting knives; Splitting tables; Stageheads; Coles; Leslie; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_cn/id/996

Leslie Coles discusses fishing and preparing fish in Newfoundland 00:05 Shark's tail 00:25 All new beams here 01:05 Ballast and rocks 01:25 History of construction or flakes and stages in area 02:35 Someone arrives from fishing on a boat 04:20 "Planking on the inside," clapboard 05:30 Philadelphia 05:55 Salt pens and fish pounds 07:20 Heavy salting went out ten years ago, drying twenty 07:45 "Always had the boards on the inside?" 08:00 Hole for the guts = "chute", trap= "trunk-hole" 08:20 Gift of a salt-fish 09:00 How high would the fish be? Kettles and a ton of fish. 10:10 12 pounds for the skin and the bones, 112 pounds to a kettle - paid for 100 pounds 11:15 All the flakes used for drying 11:45 More abotu the process of preparing fish - drying, boughs, on the rocks 12:10 "Dry good on the rocks." 12:35 Unidentified man speaks briefly 13:10 More about the strucure of the stages - removable windows 13:35 Horseshoe on the wall 13:45 Shark tail on the wall 14:25 Why take the old stage down and put up a new one? 15:20 The co-op buy