Fish with Ketchikan Charter Boats

Unlike many other Ketchikan Alaska charter companies, We specialize in booking single guests on our four-hour Ketchikan salmon charters. We reserve guests up to six per vessel. By adding individual People together, we make an affordable fishing trip of no more than six guests/soles each. Book a private fishing excursion on any charter and fish for salmon or halibut or both!

We have been doing this since 1992!

Locally owned and operated for over 28 years.

Just give us a call or email, and we will get you set up.

So have you ever dreamed of fishing in protected, unspoiled waters? Ketchikan Alaska is known as the “Salmon Capital of the World,” With Ketchikan Charter Boats, servicing the Ketchikan area with fishing tours for over more than twenty-seven years we offer some of the best salmon and halibut fishing in Alaska. It doesn’t matter if you’re an amateur or an expert angler – with a fish on the hook and rod and reel in your hands, our highly skilled Alaska captains help you make that big catch just like the locals do!

At Ketchikan charter boats we target, Alaska King Salmon, Alaska Pink Salmon, Alaska Silver Salmon, and Chum, and on the occasional trip, we catch a Sockeye.

On your Ketchikan Alaska Salmon fishing excursion with us, we use downriggers on every trip to catch your fish. A downrigger is similar to a little lift with a horizontal adjustable pole or boom that supports a lead cannonball, commonly 12 to 20 pounds, by a stainless steel cable (Or Heavy Duty Braided Downrigger Line). A clip, also known as a “release,” fastens the fishing line to the cannonball weight. And allows the bait or lure to drag behind the boat, as it is moving forward. The pole inserted in a holder until the fish strikes, pulling the fishing line out of the clip. All while the boat is moving through the water, not stationary. When the fish bites the hook, it pulls the fishing line out of the clip, and it’s you and the fish. You can also, if you have the four-person minimum go with the six-hour salmon charter and get two added hours of fishing trip time.

On your Alaska six-hour halibut fishing charter in Ketchikan, Captain Dan, or one of our other excellent halibut charter fishing captains, begins licensing the guests before casting off. Once you get to the halibut hole, he anchors up and sets up all the fishing poles with all top quality gear and baits. As every captain has secrets as to how to catch an Alaska halibut, I am not sure what instruction the captain may give, some let the fishing pole weight hit bottom and then reel up just a bit so that the lead weight is not dragging the bottom, so it does not get stuck. These fishing charters are 6-hours long as it takes a little longer most of the time to get out to the best Alaska fishing places, for the best experience, and gives you the time to catch your limit of Southeasts Ketchikan Alaska Halibut. If the captain sees that you have the time after everyone reaches their limit and can retain no more halibut, he may then set up and troll for salmon on the way back to the dock.