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Today we took an early cab to Auke Bay, about ten miles from Juneau, to meet with our guide, Jason from Southeast Sportfishing for a day of salmon fishing. We need to get Collin hooked up with a salmon! The outfit is running all new welded aluminum Allen Marine boats set up for charter. Jason is the kind of guy that eats, drinks and breathes fishing. Born and raised in Alaska, he knows this area and the fish intimately. He took us down the west coast of Admiralty Island to Lizard Head.

We spent the whole day and had good luck. Collin even hooked a halibut under very unusual circumstances. The bottom was at about 100 to 125 feet and we were trolling at 55 feet. We all thought he had a king salmon on; it was big and put up a pretty good fight. At the boat it turned out to be about a 35 pound halibut! Halibut are bottom fish and are almost never caught trolling, so this was a big surprise.

We also caught two king salmon, three nice bright chum, and two fresh pinks as well as assorted rockfish. The kings were undersized and were released, as were the rockfish.

We will get some of this salmon smoked and canned for the trip back to Montana. Did I mention fishing is good in Alaska?

By the way, if any cruisers read this blog and are headed to the Juneau area, Auke Bay is the place to go. I’ll expound on that a little bit later.