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[surfranger]

Howdy y'all.

My father in law is coming back to the states for his year end RR. We wanted to head "north to Alaska" to spend a few days with the wives doing some fishing. I am particulary keen on geting tied into a Salmon Shark or biggie halibut and was wondering if any of you had taken a trip like that before and if so, could you give me a bead on some places to stay (lodges etc) and who to try and book trips with? Gracias!!
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[Tyler]

http://www.corpusfishing.com/messageboard/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3039&highlight=alaska

[steve]

whitter Marine charters, out of whitter about an hour south on anchorage. Matt is a great guide, halibit and salmon.
http://www.fishwhittier.com/

[stxoutdoors]

there's this type of orange/red color stone fish ( not sure on the name) that is supposed to be some of the best eating fish in the world... and the place to catch them is alaska...
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[Bluffer]

What ever happen to Crab n Fisher the Alaskan?
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[Drunkswimmer]

I lived in Sitka for a few years and did mostly salmon/halibut fishing. June is the best time for King (chinook) Salmon because its when they start schooling for their spawn. Later in the summer is when the silver (coho) start running. Those are the 2 of the 5 species that are best for eating. If you are lucky maybe you can lay into what they call a "winter king" or "white king" which has WHITE meat and tastes INCREDIBLE! About 1 in 30 are like this and they are a rarity.

Try to stay away from fishing too close to the rivers they run because the freshwater changes their meat and its not very good BUT if you are into flyfishing you can catch some monster steelhead just at the mouths of rivers.

As for the halibut, from what i experienced, Later in teh summer is better because they move in a bit closer and feed on some of the dead salmon that get pushed out of the streams. I have seen several 180+ pounders caught and cleaned... dont forget to take the cheek meat if you get lucky on a big one. Generally the larger ones are females.

If you want to go to sitka, i know a few retired coasties that run charters, but i would reccomend going to cordova because the halibut bite is much better and they still have all the salmon!

GL!

-Shannon

[Tarzan]

[rawlbay]

I went on a salmon/halibut trip last year with Queen Charlotte Lodge. Not in Alaska, but you can see Alaska from there, Sarah Palin style, kind of. It was a little pricey, but we caught tons of salmon and getting to fly in an old air force 1 helicopter was neat.

While I thought I wanted to try mostly for halibut, a half day of dropping, bouncing, and retrieving a 32 oz jig a couple hundred feet under the boat convinced me otherwise. Still did a little hali fishing and caught a few, but had more fun while salmon fishing.

If I were planning a salmon trip, I would make sure we were set up with an electric down rigger and a centerpin reel. You don't have to manually strip the line off the reel and you don't need a line counter, as the downrigger will do it all for you. Plus you don't have that bigole mooching weight or a flasher on your line when you go to fight your fish. The centerpin setup is definitely more fun than a traditionally rigged bait caster, IMO, even though the drag system on a bait caster is more forgiving.

Let us know what you end up doing!

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[Petrieheil]

Not to be intrusive but are you or your father in-law military or prior? This may make a difference in location of logging and fishing due to contracts already established with them. It may save you sme money...
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