HorseDoctor
PMA Member
Late August & September is the time to be in SE Alaska for Silver (Coho) salmon. Just got back from our annual week trip. Four of us on our boat landed 90 silvers (+ 2 kings) in 4 1/2 days fishing. About 3/4 of them were caught casting with spinning rods. What a blast!!! Also caught lots of halibut, yellow-eye, ling cod & "rockfish". All in all, at the end of the week there were 22 fifty# boxes of fish for guests to take home (600# of salmon & 500# of white fleshed fish) not counting what we ate. 
May need another freezer before I turn my wife loose deer hunting...
Eight "guests" spent the week on an 85 foot yacht with 6 crew, including 2 guides & a chef. Big boat tows two 26 foot fishing boats behind it when moving. Gets far away from bigger towns & resorts so fishing pressure is minimal and fishing is significantly better. Each morning after breakfast, 4 people & a guide board each fishing boat and fish. No big runs! We're fishing within minutes. At 5:00 we return to the "mother ship" for cocktails while the guides clean, vacuum pack & flash freeze the days catch. Then sit down to a FRESH seafood dinner prepared by the chef. Pretty much luxury fishing especially as it's all "Inside Passage" waters so no big seas. In the 7 years we've been doing this nobody has ever gotten seasick. A few might have overdone cocktail hour but that doesn't count.
Lake Michigan salmon are fun but Alaska has way better backdrops for pictures!
May need another freezer before I turn my wife loose deer hunting...Eight "guests" spent the week on an 85 foot yacht with 6 crew, including 2 guides & a chef. Big boat tows two 26 foot fishing boats behind it when moving. Gets far away from bigger towns & resorts so fishing pressure is minimal and fishing is significantly better. Each morning after breakfast, 4 people & a guide board each fishing boat and fish. No big runs! We're fishing within minutes. At 5:00 we return to the "mother ship" for cocktails while the guides clean, vacuum pack & flash freeze the days catch. Then sit down to a FRESH seafood dinner prepared by the chef. Pretty much luxury fishing especially as it's all "Inside Passage" waters so no big seas. In the 7 years we've been doing this nobody has ever gotten seasick. A few might have overdone cocktail hour but that doesn't count.
Lake Michigan salmon are fun but Alaska has way better backdrops for pictures!
