Your Itinerary

So you’ve booked your trip with Angling Unlimited, and you’re just as excited as we are to get out on the water and enjoy Alaska’s best Salmon and Halibut fishing destination. Now let’s see what your upcoming Angling Unlimited trip has in store for you…

Sitka – Easy Access by Commercial Nonstop or OneStop Jet From Seattle

  • Nonstop flights from Seattle on Alaska Airlines.
  • We greet you at the airport regardless of your time of arrival with a smiling face and an AU sign.
  • We help you collect your luggage.
  • Our lodge is a short 10-minute ride from the airport.
  • Upon arrival, we layout your trip itinerary, daily schedule, orient you to your home away from home, and provide your fishing license, rain gear, and boots.
  • Groups of four will get a car for their exclusive use. Groups of less than four will share a car with other groups of less than four.

Your Trip

Lodging

  • Depending on our schedule with the next groups incoming and outgoing groups. You’ll spend your last night at our suites or in one of a few very good local hotels. This will all be made clear at the time you book – no surprises.
  • Our lodge is conveniently located less than a mile from the docks. Check out our beautiful waterfront and waterview suite options here.
  • For hotel stays we use Aspen Suites.

Tackle

  • AU furnishes you with the finest quality tackle, specifically designed for our style of fishing.
  • Left-handed reels and Canadian-style single-action reels available on request.
  • If you have a favorite rod or reel, feel free to bring it along. Also, if you have
    some light tackle or fly tackle you’d like to try, we’re happy to see it. It’s your trip.
  • All terminal tackle, bait, hook, line, and sinker provided by AU.

Departure

  • On the day you leave, your fish will be boxed and ready for shipping on the airlines.
  • We’ll pick you up a couple of hours before your flight time and take you to the airport.
  • Our processor will be waiting at the airport with your boxed fish and will help you check-in for your flight home

Fishing Days

Typical Day of Fishing

  • Wake-up knock at 4 AM
  • Enjoy Breakfast: For our guests in AU lodging, you’ll find all the fixings for you to prepare breakfast in your suite – eggs, bacon, cereals, bread, butter, milk, coffee, etc. For our guests staying in facilities not operated by AU that have a kitchen including hotels, we’ll put the breakfast items in your unit for you to prepare. For those staying in hotel rooms reserved by AU without a kitchen, we prepare a breakfast cooler that will be waiting for you aboard your boat each morning.
  • Vans to the dock depart at 4:50 AM
  • Board your boat and head for the fishing grounds at 5 AM
  • Full Day of fishing with return to the dock between 2 and 3 PM
  • Van returns you to your lodging and we go to work on processing your catch
    • Note – By mid-August dawn comes later. Wake-up 5 AM, pickup 5:45 AM, boat departure from dock 6 AM

A Great Day of Fishing in June!

What to Bring

Packing List

  • Sunscreen
  • Hat and good sunglasses. (Despite Southeast Alaska’s reputation for rain, the sun can be quite powerful.)
  • Bring ample clothes for dressing in layers and a good pair of gloves.
    • Note – Fleece clothes keep you warm when you’re very active. Insulating clothes like down or synthetic fill work better for standing out in a cool rain with a fishing rod in hand.
  • AU provides raingear and boots
  • Pack your clothes in carry-on bags so you can use your checked baggage allowance for your boxed fish on your return flight. Alaska Airlines – Go to alaskaair.com for their baggage allowances and changes.

Sea Sickness (Please don’t ignore this)

Nothing ruins your time on the water more than a case of mal de mar, better known as seasickness. Unless you are 100% certain, like beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you aren’t the slightest bit prone, we suggest you visit your family doctor and get medication. Our experience is that over-the-counter seasickness medications are of marginal value.

The best of the over-the-counter medication is Gravol. AU has many guests who experience success with it. A little dry mouth and some drowsiness are the only side effects reported. You can buy 30 pills on Amazon for about $15.

Prescription medications deliver the best results. Scopolamine is marketed as the Transderm Patch and has been around for decades. It works quite well for many of our guests. You need a prescription, so consult your doctor.

Another prescription option is “the Coast Guard Cocktail” – 25 mg of promethazine paired with 25 mg of ephedrine. The ephedrine has become extremely hard to get. Replacing ephedrine with Sudafed seems to work well for some people.

New to the market, Tradipitant is the first FDA approved for seasickness in 4 decades. We have no experience with it at AU, but we’ll run a few trials of our own this summer. We’re hoping it provides another excellent option for helping you enjoy time on the water – even those rough days.