If you’ve never experienced Alaska and want to do it on a budget this is a tremendous opportunity. The outfitter offers DIY hunting and fishing adventures. They provide comfortable living accommodations with a lodge and its very comfortable cabins, transportation, sound advice and a boat for your use. In short, everything you need to make the Alaskan adventure of a lifetime a reality without breaking the bank.
The lodge offers unbelievable silver salmon fishing, of the do-it-yourself variety. Simply stand on shore and cast flies or lures to hundreds of cruising Silvers and starting two to three months before most other streams. That means school teachers, kids and folks with the summers off can get in on the action from June thru August and take home a bunch of fresh, tasty salmon. The Coho will average 6 to 15 pounds and often spend plenty of time airborne on the end of your line. The silvers at this location arrive in mid-June, are thick by mid-July, and remain strong through to fall. Pinks and sockeyes join in the mix as summer progresses and offer great sport, and catching 100 pinks in a day (3 to 6 pounds) is no big deal! The bay itself is also a prime area for Dungeness crab and the lodge provides crab pots as part of your boat package. It’s easy to catch a mess of crabs for dinner.
It’s not uncommon to catch 40 salmon in four hours of fishing within walking distance of the lodge. There’s a short little stream right next to the lodge that hosts a run of over 50,000 salmon. The lodge’s new cabins are located on the best hole at the outlet, meaning new fish arrive at your front door every day. Also you have a choice to fish for silvers in the stream or troll for them in the bay. Fishing the stream means wading and casting in pools filled with hundreds of fish. In the bay, you stalk schools of jumping and porpoising silvers. Fish in the bay are still feeding and more aggressive and limits can be easy to come by. You can explore the myriad of streams located all over the island. The outfitter strongly urges clients to bring a GPS for use in the boat or hire a guide. You can charter a boat and captain for only $400 per day. It’s a great way to learn the area, the techniques and some hotspots.
The fishing in northern POW can be phenomenal. From the incredible run of summer Silver or Coho salmon in the bay and at the Lake outlet to the superb halibut fishing in Kashevarof Passage and beyond plus hundreds of streams, ponds and lakes over this wild 150 mile long island, makes the fishing is hard to beat.
There is superb fishing for Dolly Varden in numerous local streams, excellent runs of sockeye salmon at Sarkar Creek and Red Bay, excellent fishing for cutthroat trout in Neck Lake with trophy trout possible and outstanding fishing for rainbow trout in Red Bay Lake. Steelhead run in early spring and late fall. All in all, you’ll be challenged to find better multi-species angling opportunity over such an extensive fishing season!
An August report from one of our clients:
Client Name: Greg Parker
Outfitter = AK #19 –Excellent
Animals_Taken = fish
Camp = Excellent
Food = Excellent
comments = Unguided fishing trip. Outfitter was great! Took time to make sure we had all we needed. Accommodations were excellent! Would recommend trip very highly.
PRICING 2024:
Prince Of Wales Island Fishing Vacation
4 DAYS / 5 NIGHT PACKAGES – $4500 P/P (INCLUDES PRIVATE CHARTER DIRECTLY TO THE LODGE, SAVING YOUR PRECIOUS VACATION TIME)
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Our prime season package, “June 15-September 15,” includes your travel to the lodge from Ketchikan. float plane to Whale Pass, cabin, vehicle, meals, fully guided fishing, and your return trip to Ketchikan. $4500 per person based on double occupancy. Book your trip with a minimum of four guests and have the facility to yourself. Experience a private lodge atmosphere, without the cruise ship crowd.
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Minor children under 12, no charge. 12 to 18 half package rate.
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We would also be happy to try to customize a trip for you if you have unique requirements or interests.
4 DAYS / 5 NIGHT PACKAGES – $4500 P/P (INCLUDES PRIVATE CHARTER DIRECTLY TO THE LODGE, SAVING YOUR PRECIOUS VACATION TIME)
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The self guided plan features the cabin, vehicle, skiff, and use of all the big toys, and includes onsite gas, meals and housekeeping. $2800 per person based on double occupancy.
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The full service plan, includes your travel to the lodge from Ketchikan. float plane to Whale Pass, cabin, vehicle, meals, fully guided fishing, and your return trip to Ketchikan. $4500 per person based on double occupancy. Book your trip with a minimum of four guests and have the facility to yourself. Experience a private lodge atmosphere, without the cruise ship crowd.
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Minor children under 12, no charge. 12 to 18 half package rate.
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Our standard package is four days five nights, but we can cater to specific needs.
5 DAYS / 6 NIGHT PACKAGES – $2500 P/P BASE PACKAGE, A TRIP FOR THE HEARTY
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The self guided plan features the cabin, vehicle, and use of all the big toys, and includes onsite gas, meals and housekeeping. $2500 per person based on double occupancy.
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The full service plan, includes your travel to the lodge from Ketchikan. float plane to Whale Pass, cabin, vehicle, meals, fully guided fishing, and your return trip to Ketchikan. Price on request, dependent upon availability. Book your trip with a minimum of four guests and have the facility to yourself.
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Our standard Steelhead week is five days six nights, as inclement weather is a given in SE Alaska during spring steelhead run times. Come prepared to layer up and put in your time. Wether doing the self guided package or arranging for guided fishing, this is not a trip for the novice. Steelhead are the Grandaddy of Rainbow trout, as spooky as their reputation touts. The reward of touching one of these fish is a feeling second to none, “the pinnacle of a fly fishing career,” embodied in a moment.
