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Craker: Are you guys comfortable with you suddenly being famous?
Matt: I am just a fisherman at heart, and it's pretty interesting getting recognized in local grocery stores or walking down the street. It's very strange for someone to just come up to me and ask to take my picture. It's pretty weird. It happens at least twice a day if I'm out and about, especially when the series is running like it is right now.
Car: I'm a big fan of the Northwestern! How many months are you out fishing every year?
Matt: It varies between 5-8 months. I used to do 9 month stretches. That's when I needed a wheelbarrow to take my money home. Literally.
Jamie408tayl: What's your favorite TV show?
Matt: I'm not home enough to watch TV, but if I were, it would probably be "Desperate Housewives." It's not my favorite show, but my lady makes me watch it. I did get caught up in it, though. And "Deadliest Catch," of course! Although my head isn't big enough to watch myself that much.
Dunestorm: What's the favorite topic in the Voodoo Lounge?
Matt: All of us on the boat have kids about the same age, so we talk about what our kids are doing, what sports they're doing - mine are in tai kwon do - and how we miss out on their upbringing. The camping trips that we all say we're going to go on, but never do. "We're going to get together some day" and we never do. I live about a 10 minute walk from Edgar's house, and Sig is close too but I never see them unless the boat is down. I might see Sig once, twice a month.
Crabbehboy05: Do you think it would benefit the Hansen brothers to run a second crew and ship for the crab seasons?
Matt: No. We've often talked about buying a boat for Edgar to run, but this one boat has gotten us by for 25 years. She's a solid rig. With the price of fuel these days, it's not practical to run two boats. One boat, one crew does it all. We're number one!
Dawnski: Hi Matt! If your boat catches over your limit, can you give it to another boat before getting back to unload?
Matt: We are in a co-op with I believe 8 other vessels. The last one to be fishing makes up the difference of the rest of the boats, either under or over. At the end of king crab season, a boat went aground and they still had 150,000 pounds to go. We were going to make up the difference, but they got okayed by the Coast Guard to go back out. Which was fine with me. Another 10 days out at sea — no thanks.
