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IN 2012

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL MAY & JUNE 2012

 Halibut & Rock Fish Combo Fishing Charter

May 1st - June 10th 2012

• $199.00/per person per/day Plus Tax And Fee's
• This is a Day of Halibut and Rockfish Combo
• The limit is 2 Halibut Per-Person 4 Rock Fish Per-Person

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These prices include all of the bait, tackle, gear, and the filleting of your fish.

You will need to bring your own food, beverages and purchase a fishing license. You can purchase your fishing license online from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, there is a link to the site on our home page. You can also obtain a license the morning before your fishing trip.

All of our fishing trips are a full day, the boat leaves the dock at 7am and returns between 3pm & 5pm. We ask that you check in the night before your trip Please call 907-947-3349.

Our boat is located on J-Dock behind the J-dock Seafood Company and the Holiday Inn.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Your deposit will be refunded if you cancel your fishing trip at least 30days in advance prior to your fishing date. We highly recommend trip insurance.

All of our salt water trips can be made "Full Combo" full combo is your best chance to catch a variety of fish and take home a full freezer amount of fish. Our full combo trips are our most popular booking, with the full combo be ready for a "full day" of fishing.

IN 2012

TROPHY HALIBUT FISHING CHARTER

See Our 2010 Video At:

www.youtube.com/user/fishsewardalaska

June-Aug $299.00/per-person per-day     

Includes A Full Day Of Halibut Fishing, Chasing Trophy Halibut

Every spring the waters surounding Seward fill with an abundance of food for Halibut, ranging in size from 10-400lbs. Alaska Halibut are pure muscle, these fish put up a massive fight while you try to pull them up from the bottom.

Sport caught Alaskan Halibut have weighed over 400lbs with the world record being 459lbs. The average Halibut caught on our fishing charters is between 20 and 80lbs, with many fish over 100lbs caught.

The dream of catching an Alaska Trophy Halibut lures angles from around the world, to experence an unforgettable Alaska Halibut fishing trip book with The Seward Fish Company here in Seward Aalska. We have outfitted our boats with Top Quality Fishing Gear, we are one of the only boats that replaces all its rods and reels every year. We want you to have the best chance at getting your fish in the boat.

SKIPPERS FULL COMBO

July-Aug $299.00 per-person per-day

This includes Combo Fishing For Seward Halibut, Rock Fish, Salmon and Lingcod. This is our most popular fishing trip in Seward, Alaska

The Skippers Full Combo is our customers favorite fishing trip in Seward Alaska. On this fishing trip we will chase it all, Seward Halibut, Salmon, Lingcod and Rockfish. Other charters in Seward sell COMBO trips where tou chase two types of fish; with the Seward Fish Company Skippers Full Combo you get to chase it all.

The typical size of the Halibut caught on a combo trip is around 20-40lbs. Because of the shorter time we have to focus on Halibut, you will have less opportunity to sort through the smaller Halibut looking for bigger fish like you would be able to do on a full day Halibut fishing charter. This size of Halibut are often considered better tasting than the larger fish, and are frequently refferred to as ALL CHEEKS.

Once you have caught your Halibut, we begin targeting Seward Silver Salmon. Once we find the Silver Salmon IT IS ON! These fish are considered the most fun a person can havem in such a short amount of time. It can be a short time to get a limit because once the bite is on, it is fast and crazy. Many times you can actually see the silver schooling under the boat and watch them attach yourr bait and each other trying to get to your bait, it is crazy good fun.

To finish up the day, once there is hardly room in the fish box, we go after some Seward Rock Fish and Seward Lingcod. As with the Salmon, we catch these fish on light tackle, the Rock Fish are almost as aggressive as the Silver Salmon, and the Lingcod, well the Great Lingcod is just something you have to experience.

This is  a good time for you to watch some videos on our site, you can also vist www.youtube.com/fishsewardalaska to see just what we are talking about. The TRUTH is on film, see it for yourself, then live it with The Seward Fish Company

SEWARD SALMON FISHING

June-Aug $299.00/per-person per-day Full Day

June-Aug $175.00/per-person per-day 1/2 Day

Seward Alaska is well known for its Sivler Salmon fishing, its, crazy good Salmon fishing. Alaska Silver Salmon weigh from 8-12lbs when the first arive in June and top 20lbs by August. These Salmon are the most fun Salmon fishing there is, when you get into a buch of Silver Salmon the fishing is on fire. Please see our video page at www.youtube.com/fishsewardalaska Here you will see just what we are talking about.

Our Silver Salmon Derby is in August, however, we have great Salmon fishing from mid-June-August. If you want fast action and a full freezer of Salmon this is the fishing trip for you.

On our combo trip you are able to keep 3 Silver Salmon each, but on a full day Salmon trip you can keep 6 per person, and we have the Salmon to fill that limit.

Seward Alaska Silver Salmon

By Andy Martin

Many places in Alaska are home to phenomenal silver salmon fishing. From Bristol Bay to Ketchikan, and all the rivers, streams and bays in between, willing-biting silvers are abundant, easy to access, and among the best pound-for-pound fighters to be found.

But in the heart of Alaska’s Gulf Coast, one small fishing community rightfully claims the title “Best Silver Salmon Fishery in the World.” The numbers back it up.

Seward, a fishing, cruise ship and tourist destination on the ocean side of the Kenai Peninsula, an easy two-hour drive from Anchorage, plays host to staggering silver salmon catches. Each summer, charters and private boats enjoy Alaska’s premier saltwater coho fishery. A mind-boggling 100,000 silvers are landed by the sport fleet in Seward each year.

“The biggest catch of coho in Seward was 174,000,” says Dan Bosch, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist responsible for the area. “The average catch is around 100,000.”

Seward anglers enjoy generous six-fish daily limits for silvers. The local chamber of commerce organizes the annual Seward Silver Salmon Derby, one of the oldest and most poplar fishing derbies in the state. The biggest fish takes a cash prize of $10,000. Thousands of dollars in other prizes are awarded. A tagged fish worth $50,000 is marked each year.

While Seward also has one of the best halibut fisheries in Alaska, with an impressive number of 100-pounders brought back to the docks each season, it’s the coho fishery that gets most of the attention.

“The fishery starts earlier than any other coho fishery in the state,” Bosch says.

From mid-June through October, silver salmon feed in the nutrient-rich waters off Resurrection Bay. Early in the season, many of the fish weigh only 4 or 5 pounds. By late summer, they are pushing the mid- to upper teens. Some of the salmon are bound for the creeks at the head of the bay near Seward. Most, however, return to hundreds of creeks flowing into the Gulf of Alaska, and a sizable portion originate in Prince William Sound. They are drawn to the two capes that create Resurrection Bay because of the abundant food found there.

“It’s a very unique area,” Bosch says, describing the towing cliffs that jet straight up from the ocean floor to form the Kenai Peninsula. Water depths quickly change from more than 1,000 feet to 100 feet, creating current changes, upwelling, and Alaska’s most productive food chain for coho salmon.

Charter boat captains like Randy Wells of the Seward Fish Co. spend the entire summer getting customers into the bounty of ocean silvers.

“There’s nothing like it,” Wells says. “There are times when it’s non-stop action and we limit out in less than an hour. It sometimes takes longer to clean them than it does to catch them.”

Aside from thriving wild populations of silvers, the Seward fishery gets a boost from hatchery releases in Resurrection Bay and Prince Williams Sound. The state releases 240,000 juvenile silvers near Seward. A private hatchery, with funding from the local chamber and charter boats fleet, adds another 400,000.

Mooching is by far the most effective method for catching Seward’s silvers. Some anglers troll, but with the fish schooling and actively feeding, jigging hoochies or Spin-N-Glos with small herring strips accounts for the bulk of the catch.

Bait stacks up at almost every point where Resurrection Bay meets the Gulf of Alaska. The salmon are almost always nearby.

Wells has his customers lower their bait baits 20 to 50 feet straight down, and then slowly reel and jig the baits toward the surface. The silvers can’t resist the offering.

“It’s chaos,” Wells says. “You have two, three or four fish on at a time. We’re netting two at a time. It’s Alaska’s best ocean salmon fishing.”

The silvers first show up around Montague Island in early May. By mid-June, a few fish are being caught at Pony Cove, Resurrection Bay’s most productive and popular coho hot spot. Sometime in July, hundreds of thousands of silvers will gather in the bay, providing fish-after-fish-after-fish action for nearly every boat on the scene.

Then, usually in August, the salmon spread out, still feeding, but not concentrated in the same immense numbers at Pony Cove. Captains like Wells keep close tabs on their movements, continuing to catch limits through the derby, this year slated for Aug. 14-22, when may of the fish are running 12 pounds to as big as 20 pounds.

There is a 7% Sales Tax on all fishing charters

There is a $3.50 per/person harbor head fee.

KASILOF RIVER KING SALMON FISHING

May-July $200.00 per person per day King Salmon Fishing

The Kasilof River is the best kept secret in Alaska; located just minutes from the World Famous Kenai River. The Kasilof River boast a massive King Salmon fishery. Unlike the Kenai River, the Kasilof River is a drift boat only river with no motors allowed. This limits the number of boats and the boat activity. The Kasilof River is packed with fish and relazation.

see the video at

www.youtube.com/fishsewardalaska

June 11-Aug 19th $200.00 per person per day 8hr day

The Seward Fish Company offers hike-In access from the Russian River Campground. It is a 2.4 mile hike with an easy access trail. This is an easy hike, more like a nice walk. This area is far away from the Russian-Kenai River confluence. The confluence is where the “Combat” fishing is; we stay far away from that.

The Russian River is easily accessed from Moose Pass, where our Trail Lake Lodge is. For those wishing to stay at the Russian River Campground, reservations are essential during much of the season. Visit http://www.recreation.gov/ for reservations and more info. Other Chugach National Forest campground choices in the Cooper Landing area include Quartz Creek, Crescent Creek and Cooper Creek Campgrounds