SALTWATER FISHING

The saltwater fisheries surrounding our lodge are by far the best you will find throughout Alaska due to our key location. We’re not impacted in this region by commercial fishing. We also have immense reef systems surrounding our fishing grounds. These reefs support large schools of herring, needle fish, shrimp and other feed that sustain life in the saltwater. The streams in our region support some of the largest runs of spawning salmon found in the Pacific Northwest. Our local spawning salmon aren’t the only fish passing by. we are also passed by the salmon heading to spawn in the Stikine River and three state operated hatcheries, as well as the migratory Canadian runs.

SALMON

Wooden Wheel Lodge offers it’s guests the opportunity to catch all five species of North Pacific salmon including Kings, Coho, Chum, Pink and Sockeye. Our guests also have the option of choosing the style of fishing, whether it’s trolling or mooching.

Kings are quite abundant on our fishing grounds. The stronger run starts around the beginning of May until the end of June. During this run, you will find the larger Kings with the majority of them averaging forty pounds. Also during this early part, you will find the famed “white Kings”, which are passing through our region enroute for their spawning grounds in Canada.

During mid June, our waters start seeing large quantities of Coho, Pink, Chum and Sockeye Salmon which are available in the saltwater through August. We have two runs of Coho. The first one ends around mid July and averages eight pound fish. During the second run, from mid July through early September, the fish average fourteen pounds. We start to see Sockeye in mid June until they head to the freshwater to spawn around mid July. The Chum Salmon, which is the second largest salmon in the world, averages twenty-two pounds and are aggressive fighters. The Pinks average eight pounds and despite what people say, they offer a delightful morsel.

HALIBUT

Just for the halibut!! Well, to say the least, we offer our clients plenty of the big flat fish! Whether it’s the twenty-five to seventy pound table fare critter or the behemoth of a lifetime, we at Wooden Wheel Lodge are sure you’ll love the halibut fishing! Our average halibut for the past two seasons was 96 pounds. That was just the average, imagine how many we harvested over 150 pounds. Most of our halibut fishing is around the reefs of the area. The depth we fish at is between 50 and 180 feet.

If you’re seeking the chance to harvest large trophy class halibut, don’t overlook our fisheries. We are not impacted by commercial fishermen and we’re too far away from large communities where locals subsist on the bounty of Alaska. You’ll be fishing with a maximum of twenty-four ounces of lead on a tuna stick with a Penn 113H reel spooled with Izorline Spectra eighty pound test line. When you get hooked into the “Big One” and you don’t think you can handle it, we’ll outfit you with all of the proper fighting harnesses.

COD and ROCKFISH

Fast and Furious jigging with a variety. That’s what cod and rockfishing is like. We offer our clients the opportunity to harvest over thirty species of rockfish, Ling and True Cod from any of the numerous shallow reefs in our region. As mentioned earlier, the reefs are what makes for our outstanding fisheries. Sumner Strait, where we fish, has the best reef fishing in Southeast Alaska.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to jig for cod or rockfish before, we’ll make sure you do. We’ll be targeting large aggressive Ling Cods averaging twenty-five pounds or the “Alaskan Red Snapper” called Yelloweyes, which average in our region at twenty-three pounds.

SALTWATER TACKLE

Fast and Furious jigging with a variety. That’s what cod and rockfishing is like. We offer our clients the opportunity to harvest over thirty species of rockfish, Ling and True Cod from any of the numerous shallow reefs in our region. As mentioned earlier, the reefs are what makes for our outstanding fisheries. Sumner Strait, where we fish, has the best reef fishing in Southeast Alaska.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to jig for cod or rockfish before, we’ll make sure you do. We’ll be targeting large aggressive Ling Cods averaging twenty-five pounds or the “Alaskan Red Snapper” called Yelloweyes, which average in our region at twenty-three pounds.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to jig for cod or rockfish before, we’ll make sure you do. We’ll be targeting large aggressive Ling Cods averaging twenty-five pounds or the “Alaskan Red Snapper” called Yelloweyes, which average in our region at twenty-three pounds.

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See Also:
Alaska Fishing
Alaska Eco Tours
Alaska Hunting
Saltwater Fishing
Freshwater Fishing
Alaska Salmon Fishing
Alaska Halibut Fishing
Cod Fish and Rockfish
Fishing Tackle
Fly Tying Patterns