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June Kings and Trophy Halibut 

June is prime time for king salmon, trophy halibut, lingcod, and black bass.  We include GAF (Any sized Halibut) into your fishing package for your group.  These fish can range anywhere from 40-250lbs.  GAF halibut are the only way to keep halibut over your normal reverse slot limit in Southeast Alaska when on guided charters unless you are one of the few that gets one over 80".  You also can retain GAF halibut on halibut closure days. Your typical day in June will be an early morning departure to the king salmon grounds.   We either troll or mooch for kings and secure a limit of them. This is very fun and exciting fishing as we are usually trolling or mooching shallow areas for kings.  The kings range anywhere from 12-60lbs.  Our area is good king salmon fishing, and we are very good at finding them.  We then aim to the halibut grounds where we look for trophy halibut as well as your normal keeper sized halibut. With good weather and sea conditions we run offshore to fish for halibut.  We also find lingcod, black bass, and vermillion rockfish.  It is very fun fishing and for your group to keep a trophy halibut creates great memories and you get to bring more halibut home.    Limits on king salmon vary from year to year and we do not know the limit until April 1st.  We provide the GAF fish to make up for that.  

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GAF Halibut:   GAF is a program that allows us to use commercial halibut quota to get additional "any sized" halibut for guided anglers.  We are also commercial fisherman and we own the commercial IFQ that we convert into GAF fish for our May and June groups.   If you desire to catch a 40-250lb halibut and have more halibut meat to go home with, GAF fish are included in June fishing packages.  This is to give you MORE fish to take home as well has the thrill of fighting and retaining a large halibut. 

July 11th-Aug 31st Cohos, Halibut, Lingcod

July brings in the cohos to the Craig area as well as kings still being around if they are still open.  I start chartering again July 11th after taking the first part of the month to go commercial salmon trolling.  We have an excellent run of coho out of Craig due to the fact that we have a very large coho hatchery located here.  The coho limit is 6 per person, per day so it provides steady action for anglers mooching for salmon.  We consistently have very good returns that start in early July and continues through the summer.  the cohos grow steadily through July and August, with the largest cohos coming at the end of August.    July/Aug/Sept is primary a coho/halibut/lingcod/black bass fishery.  King limits change from year to year and are subject to in-season closures.   Some years kings are open, other years they are closed.  

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