It’s mid-August and the king run of 2011 seems a long way from running out of gas. Magdalena Lee fishing with Captain Ben Baumann landed a 38 pounder on Saturday afternoon. A number of fish over 30 pounds were caught on Sunday including a 32 pounder released by Bruce Erikson fishing with your blogger. Bruce’s 8 year…
DetailsAs is typical for Sitka, silver fishing ranges from good to excellent this mid-August with limit or near limit catches on a daily basis. The average size silver isn’t quite as large as normal but we have seen some big fishing including an 18 pounder landed by Dorothy Fountain fishing with Captain Phil Carlson. What is unexpected for mid-August is the shear numbers of king…
DetailsFishing remains absolutely spectacular with great catches of kings, silvers, halibut, lingcod and rockfish. Yesterday, Dale Hutson, fishing with Captain Chuck, landed a 40 pound king. Today (Friday) the Dan Hayes group fishing with Captain Chuck and yours truly had limits of silvers and kings by 10 AM. Captain Chuck’s crew went out for halibut,…
DetailsFor the past week we’ve seen spectacular fishing with limits of silvers many days and kings at levels of abundance normally reserved for mid-June. The comments from the our anglers say it all. Dick Glassburn, who has fished with AU for well over a decade said Sunday’s action was the best he’d ever seen. Not…
DetailsLarry Kauzlarich, fishing with Captain Ryan Refshaw, landed a 48 pound chinook while motor mooching close to shore early on a beutiful calm, sunny Saturday (yesterday) morning. This is the current big king of the year for AU. King fishing continued to be very strong over the past week with a good amount of 30 pound plus kings…
DetailsFirst, sorry for the lapse in blogs. The long season catches up with your aging captain/blogger. The second week of July presented a surprise – after a nice buildup in numbers, the silvers virtually disappeared for three or four days. Boats were lucky to manage 4 or 5 in a day. Thankfully, the kings kept right…
DetailsJuly got off to a rough start weatherwise and a hot start fishingwise. Despite dealing with a bit of wind, rain and waves, the Otto party – Tony, Ryan, and Marty – celebrated July 4 with “limits of everything” – silvers, kings, halibut and rockfish. The silvers appear to be getting pretty well established in our…
DetailsThe weather wasn’t hot for the first day of July – a bit of cool rain came with an east wind that smoothed out the ocean. We found kings again on the inside waters with limits for the Dan Brock party by 6:10 AM and the Jim Waldo party by 7 AM. The ocean also…
DetailsThe calmest June we’ve ever seen ended on a rough note. A nasty south wind kicked up on Thursday making the ocean a confused washboard. The rough conditions brought out the best in Sitka options when a number of our boats limited out at an undisclosed location that was as calm as the proverbial mill…
DetailsDeckhands and captains are running around the boat trying to keep up with fish coming to the side and empty hooks. The continued early run of silvers, chums, and pinks mixed in with a strong run of kings seems to bring a bite on every drop. Normal bait consumption in late June is 4 or…
DetailsTake you grandchildren fishing on Angling Unlimited’s grandparents special. The time is August 24-28 – prime for peak silver action – and action is what gets kids going. Spice that fun that with some late season kings, halibut, rockfish, and lingcod and you’ve got the perfect time of year to keep those with shorter…
DetailsThe first day of summer brought the fish of summer with a terrific silver bite that came on the heels of a wide open king bite. Long time AU friend Greg Pepin, plus Val Jensen, Rusty Lyon, and Rusty’s daughter Kelly Lyon, fished with Captain Greg and started the day with by hooking and releasing about a dozen kings while landing the limit of four.…
DetailsThe king run this year has been good for numbers and now the size seems to be building, too. On Sunday the Kent Thomazin brought in a 36 pound king and the rest of his party – Don Gillis, Rick Rekdal, and Randy Rundhaug – landed fish up to to 30 pounds. Monday delivered a…
DetailsAmong other things, the first month of our 2011 season be remembered unbelievably calm seas. Day in and day out the ocean is nearly flat. Today we saw a very widely spaced ground swell, but otherwise it was glass. The AU fleet worked a little harder than usual to locate kings, but the efforts paid with limits all…
DetailsFishing lit up in for all the AU boats on Monday with limits of kings quickly followed by limits of halibut. One of the king locations was protected, calm, shallow and particularly beautiful. The Wong party – Ed, Gary, and Brad Wong plus Jim Kraft had a spectucular day of catching and releasing kings using circle hooks…
DetailsAn explosive krill bloom in the waters off Sitka has brought an unusual mix of salmon for the second week of June. On June 11, Captain David Gross fishing with Doyne Bohannon, John Austin, Jeff Fossum, and Walt Seymour brought in a catch more common in mid-July: a limit of kings, halibut, and rockfish along with…
DetailsFamily-Outdoors, a fishing, hunting and camping blog out of the Missouri Ozarks, recently named Sitka (home of Angling Unlimited) a top ten fishing destination in the United States. “Most people believe that the world’s best salmon, halibut, and trout fishing is found in Alaska,” they wrote. “And Sitka is the epicenter for the best action.” Also…
DetailsOnly one boat out today, Captain Chuck, and a good was had by all five guests. Each got a nice King and several more released.
A quick trip to the halibut grounds yielded five halis in a hurry.
More boats will be out tomorrow!
Guest post from AU guest Earl “of Sinitsin” Tanner
King fishing in the first week of June has not been easy. It has been work to find the fish and get on the schools, but the work has paid off each day and limits have been the rule. Thankfully the sea lions seem to be getting less agressive. Also, there have been some spectaular whale breaching shows…
DetailsI know a guy who owned a megayacht and cruised all over British Columbia and Southeast Alaska exploring the best fishing spots. He could fish the most remote locations, far the coastal towns and villages. He fished them all, kept detailed data on 40 or more years of salt water chinook fishing. About 15 years…
DetailsAngling Unlimited had a first on May 30. Captain David Gross, fishing with Carl Hauser, Jeff Hauser, Dave Goshorn, and Ed Barnes got into a wide open king bite yesterday afternoon. After hooking and landing some nice kings they were greeted by a site we’ve never scene at AU – a pod of killer whales…
DetailsWe’ve enjoyed light winds, calm seas, and good fishing for the past 10 days. King results have ranged from spectacular to good. The Flint group brought 20 kings to the boat in the first two hours of the morning on May 25. Since then, the fishing has been a bit harder work, but most groups…
DetailsThe 2011 seaon got underway with Captain DJ Gross taking American service men fishing along with other boats in the Sitka fleet. It’s Angling Unlimited’s and the charter industry’s way of thanking them for their service. The king fishing has been spectacular with large schools of fish, limits, and plenty for catch and release –…
DetailsOn April 15th, we randomly selected a winner from the list of 1757 people that are signed up to receive our monthly E-news. With the help of Random.org, Steve Slater became our lucky winner. Here’s a few details about Steve. Steve Slater (from Wisconsin) moved to Minnesota 29 years ago to lure and catch his college sweetheart Ellen…
DetailsLots of fish refusing to grow up It might be easier to explain quantum physics in a paragraph than clarify the halibut situation. First, halibut are currently at record abundance in the North Pacific – more individual fish and more pounds (1.8 billion) than ever. Sounds great until we drill down and discover that the…
DetailsThe King salmon regulations have been set for the 2011 season. They are as follows: Non-residents annual limit is 5. 2/day in May, and 1/day for the rest of the season. Resident limit = 3/day The forcast is for excellent King salmon fishing in Southeast, Alaska this summer. Last year the limits were 1/day and…
DetailsWe are looking forward to the big show in Minneapolis, MN – March 30 – April 3. Several captains and other AU crew will be in booth 808 to talk about the upcoming season in Sitka, AK. If your in the area, stop by, we would love to see you. Also, get signed up to…
DetailsCaptains Chuck, DJ, and Greg attended the American Outdoor show last week in Rosemont, IL, which is near Chicago. We met lots of great people during the five days, and we would like to thank all of you that stopped by to visit and learn more about Sitka, Alaska and Angling Unlimited. Best of luck…
DetailsCaptain’s Chuck McNamee, Greg Mohs and DJ will be in Chicago this week at the 32nd Annual America’s Outdoor Fishing and Hunting Show. The show is being held in the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. We will be in booth #244. If you are in the area, please stop in. We will be having a guess…
DetailsThe First Annual Pinehurst outdoor bon spiel (Curling tournament) was held this past week in Naytahwaush, MN. Pinehurst Resort is owned by Captain Ben’s in-laws. 64 teams were registered, and for most of them, it would be their first curling experience, as it was for Team Angling Unlimited. Several of the Angling Unlimited employees were…
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