Yell Co AR Hunter
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Sounds like you need to decide on a fishing trip or a sightseeing trip. To catch grayling you will need to go way North. So if halibut is high on your list you are talking 600 or 700 miles to get into great grayling fishing. If you want to do both I would expect you need to add a flight or really long drive.
I have made a couple trips to Alaska. One a sightseeing fishing trip. We fished out of Seward and did ok on Halibut. I would not recommend the charter we used. Important question to ask is if you get to fish the poles you pay for. The Captain we used once you caught you big halibut the others who had not fished your pole. I paid for 4 poles and watch 2 others run from pole to pole jerking the poles before the fish was set on the hook. They just could not get how a circle hook works. My family of 4 had our big one with in the first hour and a half. Several hours of watching the show as I caught my big one on the first drop.
The other a hunting fishing trip. We went all the way to Dead Horse fished the rivers on the way back. The Sag and Jim's rivers hold great grayling fishing. Then we worked our way East of Fairbanks fishing rivers and lakes. Fishing was fantastic. I caught over a hundred fish in a couple days of fishing. Artic char, artic grayling, silver salmon, and rainbow trout.
The Kodiak options look good, but it will be fishing primary trip.
Another option to consider if fishing is the main objective of the trip. Adak Island.
The reason I prefer the latter two options if fishing is the main reason for the trip. You will send most of your time fishing not running to get to fishable deeper water. This can account for 3 or more hours of your trip.
We did also do a day of fishing the Kasilof River for Kings. This was against the advice of the outfitter and had one bite which spooled off my wife's real in just a couple seconds. We went in mid to late June and kings were not recording very good numbers.
Main thing is to just make up your mind and book something you will not regret a trip to Alaska.
I have made a couple trips to Alaska. One a sightseeing fishing trip. We fished out of Seward and did ok on Halibut. I would not recommend the charter we used. Important question to ask is if you get to fish the poles you pay for. The Captain we used once you caught you big halibut the others who had not fished your pole. I paid for 4 poles and watch 2 others run from pole to pole jerking the poles before the fish was set on the hook. They just could not get how a circle hook works. My family of 4 had our big one with in the first hour and a half. Several hours of watching the show as I caught my big one on the first drop.
The other a hunting fishing trip. We went all the way to Dead Horse fished the rivers on the way back. The Sag and Jim's rivers hold great grayling fishing. Then we worked our way East of Fairbanks fishing rivers and lakes. Fishing was fantastic. I caught over a hundred fish in a couple days of fishing. Artic char, artic grayling, silver salmon, and rainbow trout.
The Kodiak options look good, but it will be fishing primary trip.
Another option to consider if fishing is the main objective of the trip. Adak Island.
The reason I prefer the latter two options if fishing is the main reason for the trip. You will send most of your time fishing not running to get to fishable deeper water. This can account for 3 or more hours of your trip.
We did also do a day of fishing the Kasilof River for Kings. This was against the advice of the outfitter and had one bite which spooled off my wife's real in just a couple seconds. We went in mid to late June and kings were not recording very good numbers.
Main thing is to just make up your mind and book something you will not regret a trip to Alaska.
