Alaska halibut fishing

A friend and I are thinking about an Alaska fishing trip and would like to get some references on guides. We would like to try multi-species but we are open for anything fun.

Where do you want to fish out of and how much time do you have?

Homer Alaska…..The halibut capital of the world!!!
Or so they say.
Went out of there once. Had a great time!!It was quite a few years now. Cant help with guides. Google Fishing Charters in the area you are looking at.

I was up there in 2000 with a buddy. We Stayed in Niniclick(spell?) It is about 30-40 mi North of Homer. We paid 147 bucks for an all day fishing trip. Half day King half day Halibut. We did not have any luck with the king we were at the start of the run. Halibut fishing was none stop action. Hope you are in decent shape it is like nothing else. The camp ground we stayed at had a boat charter that we used. If you what the name of the charter I will have to dig around at home to find it. Let me know. Good luck!

I have fished with K-Bay Charters out of Homer. We caught about twenty halibut in the one day of fishing, biggest being about a hundred and fifty pounds. We were recommended to fish with them by a guy who runs a salmon camp in Alaska, and I was truly impressed.

I just moved back from the kenai penninsula a few months ago. I had my own ocean boat and I can set you up with a good friend of mine who runs great alaska guide service. He was ranked #1 in Ninilchik. This guy knows where to fish. I used to follow him around on the water until I got my feet wet in terms of where to find halibut. I also Have a good friend who runs ace fish on the Kenai for all the Salmon fishing you need. Both have web pages you can find under yahoo. PM me if I can anwser any questions. Alaska is an awesome place!!!! I will be heading back asap.

Went Trout fishing down the Kenai river. The same guide also does Halibut. If you go to Alaska, spend at least two weeks and take lots of pictures.

http://www.randafishing.com

This guide was great, we will contact him when we go back.

I didnt fish on my month long alaska trip last year… (photography ya know)… but I think I would have taken a drift boat on the kenai if the run was on good… I talked to the owner of one place and he was very dissappointed in the run.. took nearly the whole 4 hours to land a limit of cohos he said… and it really sucked because each fisherman was also landing around 80 pink salmon that were running from 4-8 pounds… as well as their 8 cohos…. yep….. guess that WOULD suck…. I hate to think how sore my arms would have been after catching 88 salmon in 4 hours….

I have fished the Ninilchik/Soldotna area many times. Chihooly (Sp?) or Chilhooly is the guide the locals always talk about. He is out of Ninilchik. He will get you into Halibut and salmon. Ocean run Kings and Silvers. If you want a good shot at big Halibut and Kings, May to June is great! If you want NUMBERS of Silvers in the streams and off the rivers, July and August are best. I prefer the Middle week in August because the Silvers are stacked in the Ninilchik, Deep Creek, and also the Kenai and Russian Rivers. These can be fished from shore, and are easily accessible. The halibut are also still easily accessible in the Cook inlet. So you could go on a guided halibut trip in the AM, and get back as the tide rises, and catch the salmon in the river mouths! That is soooo much fun, I cannot describe it! I have a buddy who lives there, and he gives us his boat to use whenever we go. It is a trip I highly recommend to ANYONE who is a fisherman or outdoors-person. The sights are great as well. A lot of Russian and Inuit architecture.

Just an FYI, Charters out of Homer will bring you an hour or so out into the ocean, fish, and come back when you are full. The reason they do is because it is so easy to catch halibut in the Cook Inlet that trips would be over and done with very fast. The trip out and back makes it last longer. We go out of Deep Creek, and catch fish no farther out than 5 miles! If you don’t want to waste all that time, split the day up, and do halibut in the AM and Salmon in the aft.