Well first I want to state, that two weeks is NOT ENOUGH time to fish Alaska… I would have preferred the whole summer…
The trip started out with me collecting 4 of the other 5 kayak fishermen (Besides myself) at the airport and a 6 hour late night early morning drive from Anchorage to Valdez. On arriving in Valdez we ate breakfast and got a couple hours of sleep at a friends house.
Around 10 am, we quickly took our flyrods to Allison Point and fished from shore for Pink Salmon, easily catching up to 20 a person in a period of 2-3 hours… Then a trip to Valdez to see the sites, to shop for supplies for the next morning adventure, and to get some dinner… Then it was back to my friends house to separate the what we were taking with us for 5 days in a remote Forest Service Cabin at Port Chalmers, Montague Island, Prince William Sound… And sleep…
The next morning we arrived at the docks to load our gear and the 6 rental SOT kayaks for our journey on the Transport Ship… Around 9 a.m., we left the dock for a bumpy 3 hour trip to cross the sound in Small Craft Advisory weather (3-5’ seas).
When we arrived at Montague Island, we had difficulty locating the 10’x12’ cabin nestled in the woodline, but eventually found it and transported all our gear to the cabin and set up camp… Around 2 P.M., we all geared up and set out in search of Halibut, Salmon, Lingcod and Rockfish…
The Copper Rockfish and Black Rockfish were more than cooperative, as was one large Skate (6’ long). MSGDAN (From KFS) hooked what was the largest Halibut of the trip (Estimated at over 70 lbs by those who saw the fish in his 15 minute battle with it), and it looked promising despite the cold weather (Almost 10 degrees below normal this summer), winds and rain… But it soon broke free, and was lost to Davy Jones Locker… We kept 5 of the Copper Rockfish for dinner… Everything else was released.
We returned to the cabin around 10 P.M., and enjoyed a meal of fresh Copper Rockfish Taco’s that I cooked up… Th
