Category: Uncategorized

What to Expect on Your First Ketchikan Fishing Charter

Never fished in Alaska before? Here’s exactly what your day might look like.

Step 1: Meet at the Dock

Your captain will greet you at the marina, go over safety instructions, and provide all necessary gear. No experience required — beginners are welcome.

Step 2: Head to the Fishing Grounds

Within minutes, you’ll be surrounded by stunning scenery. The Inside Passage offers relatively calm waters, making it comfortable even for first-timers.

Keep your eyes open — whale sightings aren’t uncommon.

Step 3: Lines In!

Your captain will:

  • Set you up with the right bait or lures
  • Help you drop to the correct depth
  • Coach you through hook-ups

When a salmon hits, you’ll know it. The fight is fast and exciting.

Step 4: Celebrate & Repeat

After landing your catch, your captain will bleed and ice the fish to preserve quality. Many charters also offer vacuum sealing and shipping so you can enjoy your catch back home.

What Should You Bring?

  • Rain jacket (this is Alaska!)
  • Non-slip shoes
  • Sunglasses
  • Camera
  • Motion sickness remedy (if needed)

Everything else is provided.

Why Guests Keep Coming Back

It’s not just about the fish. It’s the memories:

  • Eagles soaring overhead
  • The rush of a powerful salmon run
  • Sharing the experience with family and friends

A Ketchikan fishing charter isn’t just a tour — it’s an Alaskan adventure.

Ketchikan Spring Fishing Update: Gearing Up for King Salmon Season!

It’s been a great spring so far! Halibut, cod, rockfish, lingcod, steelhead, crab, shrimp, squid and plenty of wildlife to see along the way. Found where there’s a healthy biomass of bottom fish and also places they aren’t which is almost as important. Now that we have them patterned it’s time to look forward to king salmon opening for retention on June 1st! I can’t wait to chase the kings! The 2025 Ketchikan fishing season is about to be in full swing!

Fishing in Alaska 2021

The new king salmon limits for Ketchikan Alaska  are posted! 4 kings annual outside of the terminal harvest areas and 3 per day inside! (Inside the terminal harvest area the limit is 3 per day with no annual limit) the halibut slot limit it now up to 50 inches! The salmon forecasts look great for 2021! All other salmon species (silver, chum, pink, and sockeye) limits are 6 per day with no annual limit! If you’re looking for an Alaska vacation come on up and go fishing with us in Ketchikan Alaska! The Alaska fishing season is right around the corner. Don’t wait until it’s too late to book! See you this summer!

Ketchikan Salmon fishing is hot

The silvers are starting to show up in Ketchikan!! Salmon and halibut fishing in Ketchikan is on fire right now. There’s a ton of pink salmon, the cohos (silvers) are starting to come in, there’s still some kings around and the halibut fishing is phenomenal! Come fishing in Ketchikan Alaska! You will not regret it there’s almost no pressure and no crowd!

Ketchikan fishing 2020

We are only a few months away from the start of another great fishing season here in Ketchikan. Overall the salmon forecast is looking steady and halibut should fallow suit. Lingcod will also be high on the list of target species this year. King salmon and halibut are first on the hit list! I can’t wait to get out there!

September 2019 Ketchikan fishing report

Wow! These fall coho are huge!! We’ve caught a lot of fish ranging from 10 to 20 pounds on the upper end. September coho (silver salmon) are my personal second favorite to fish. They are hard fighting acrobatic fish. The halibut fishing in Ketchikan is still very strong this September. I’m fishing all the way through September and anticipate good fishing all the way through.

August 2019 Ketchikan fishing report

We couldn’t have asked for more consistent salmon and halibut fishing this August. The pink return was huge and steady the summer silvers started disappearing right as the fall run was starting so there was about a week lull on the silvers but the halibut stayed consistent and we had phenomenal weather to boot. It’s looking like the fall silver run is going to be really good as the cohos are huge!

July 2019 fishing report Ketchikan Alaska

July was absolutely phenomenal fishing lots of king, pink and silver salmon the halibut fishing was pretty much non stop as long as you hit the right tide.

June 17-23 2019

Salmon and halibut fishing in Ketchikan Alaska. The king salmon fishing in Ketchikan is unbelievable right now! Seems to be getting better and better everyday. This week we had 6 kings over 30 pounds with the biggest being 37. The halibut fishing is also getting better and better. We’re starting to see a few silvers and pinks also! If you want to go salmon fishing in Ketchikan or halibut fishing in Ketchikan give us a call! We have a couple of time slots left in August and September.