Commercial & Sport Fishing

Wards Cove Packing Company was the oldest continuously operated fish cannery in all of Alaska until it closed in 2003. Get a very up-close view of THIS historic site. View various fishing vessels along your way. Your narrator will explain the various means of commercial salmon harvest.

Learn the basics of purse seining, gillnetting, and power trolling. Your skipper will share his own recipe for salmon spread! Yum! Sport fishing methods will be explained and often seen while we are enroute. Learn of various sport fishing lodges that are common in the Ketchikan area.

(Community Photo Provided by Terry Roberts)