Fishing for Halibut in Alaska

Alaska is arguably the best fishing destination inValdez, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Wrangell and
the entire world. With so many places to go,Homer, Alaska.
beautiful scenery and thousands upon thousandsThe inside passage is the section of land farthest
of salmon and halibut, you can understand whysouth and also closest to the United States. This
anglers enjoy fishing in Alaska. While most anglersarea consists of several towns that offer some
think of salmon when they think of Alaska fishing,excellent halibut fishing. The southern region of the
there are fish called halibut that provide someinside passage consists of Ketchikan, Petersburg
spectacular fishing opportunities.and Wrangell. The northern region of the inside
Pacific Halibut can grow extremely big with mostpassage consists of Sitka, Juneau, Haines and
fish averaging around 30 pounds and some fishSkagway. Sitka is one of the most popular towns
exceeding 600 pounds. Most of these fish areto visit for planning a Halibut fishing trip and you
caught near the bottom, but they will come up incan also catch plenty of salmon as well if you hire
the water column to feed and we have evena fishing charter.
seen some videos on youtube that showedThe Prince William Sound is another popular area
people feeding the halibut near the surface from afor Halibut fishing. This region is located in south
charter boat.central Alaska and it consists of Cordova, Valdez
Some of the cities in Alaska have excellent saltand Whittier. Each of these towns has fishing
water fishing for halibut and salmon as well ascharters available and you should be able to catch
good salmon and trout fishing on area rivers andHalibut and Salmon on the same charter.
streams. If you plan a trip to target Halibut, youIf you would like to get some more information
will need to be in a town that has a port so theon any or all of these areas we listed, take a look
boats have access to the salt water . Theat our Alaska fishing page for visitor guides, fishing
following are some of the popular towns: Sitka,charters and lodging.
Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Cordova, Whittier,