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Alaska Salmon Fishing

Truly Magnificent and Majestic King Salmon are yours in the waters around Sitka. These are big 20-70 pound saltwater fish that are still feeding and very much in their prime unlike salmon caught in rivers. The waters around Sitka are natural feeding grounds for these big Chinooks as they migrate south along the coast. In early summer wide-open feeding frenzies with double and triple hook-ups are frequent. Our top quality gear for kings consists of Shimano or Penn level wind reels with 9' medium action mooching rods and 25lb test line. We fish for kings by either downrigger trolling artificial lures and bait or drift/slow trolling with light weights and plug cut herring or small jigs.

Alaska Salmon Fishing

Alaska Salmon Fishing


Scenic boat rides are never enough for us: great catches are what we strive for and have built our reputation on.
 
Alaska Salmon Fishing
Alaska Salmon Fishing
The Silver Salmon arrive during and after the king salmon run. They average smaller (8-14 lb.) than the kings, but fight just as well pound for pound. The action is often fast and furious with silver salmon with hook-ups coming as fast as you can get your bait back in the water. The daily limit of silvers is more generous than king salmon, so a limit of silvers usually yields more weight than a limit of kings. The gear and techniques we use for silvers are similar to those used for king fishing.
Combination fishing means more productive action for you. A big advantage to Alaska Salmon fishing with Kingfisher Charters is that we fish for all available species on the same day. With us, unless you request differently, you’ll fish for salmon, halibut, lingcod and yelloweye in the same day and usually catch a limit of two or three species of fish each day. On our typical ten hour fishing day, plan on a spectacular one hour run to the fishing grounds, several hours fishing salmon, several hours fishing halibut and an hour or two fishing lingcod and rockfish. Of course if your group would rather devote a day to only one or two types of fishing, just let your captain know.

'07 season re-cap and predictions for '08:

The 2007 season created exciting memories for our guests, with some of the best king salmon and coho fishing in years. Halibut fishing was phenomenal with many over 100 pounds.  As in the previous season, king salmon fishing was outstanding in May and June with kings landed into September.  The silver run came in strong in July and continued for the remainder of the season.  The limits for the 2007 season were:

2 halibut per day (one of which not to exceed 32 inches)
1 king salmon per day, 4 per season
6 silver salmon per day
1 lingcod per day (catch and release only June 16 – August 15)
1 yelloweye rockfish per day, 2 per season

Alaska Salmon Fishing

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