June 26th Fishing Update The Noble Eagle is now our mode of transportation to and from Juneau. Mary and I very pleased with it! Captain Larry and his Wife Wendy run the boat for Eagle Charters, and they do a great job. Mary and I really like the smaller group size. It makes it much easier to get to know everyone, and then when the guests go to the airport it is much easier with the airport traffic. The one change in our equation out here are the people in the boat. The boats

June 25th Fishing Update The weather changes everything. We had some very sunny days and now we are seeing the opposite side of sunny. Pretty good storm rolling thru. Heavy rain with some wind. https://marine.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=PKZ022#.YNZ0RS-cZBx King Salmon Fishing is really good right now! Might be at its peak. They still seem to be at around 80’ to 100’ and down the coast. There were a few caught in Althorp, but by far the better King fishing is down the coa

I apologize to all of you that obey the speed limit and have never done anything wrong. I am forced to talk about this in hopes that we can somehow curve the trend in the right direction. I really think we have a good thing going here with fishing in Elfin Cove, but if we are not careful we risk loosing what we have. Trust - To provide a self guided experience there must be trust between the guest and the owner. I am trusting that you will all be careful with our boats and op

I guess I should have waited another day to do a fishing update! 13 years ago Logan worked for Mary and I in Excursion Inlet, nice to see that he still knows how to fillet. His boat caught a 157 lb halibut yesterday. Just like riding a bike he jumped on the fillet table, "I caught it I get to fillet it"!! These young kids now have kids and their own business, starting to feel old all of a sudden. Yesterday was a pretty good fishing day. The Oliver group did really good o

I think this has been the hottest day of the year so far for us. I saw on my phone 64 degrees. Doors and windows open for sure today. I know for those of you down south you see 64 degrees and you are sitting in 95 or 100 degrees, I guess it is all what we are used to, 64 seems hot to us here. We have been on a nice stretch for weather for sure, hope it lasts a bit longer. King salmon are still doing great. We are catching then down the coast. The bite seems to be better

The open ocean does get glassy calm! Wow what a photo looking from Cape Spencer to South Pass. I got some photos of a pretty big Brown Bear last night. Always amazing to see the brown bears on the beaches eating grass. Kings are still going good, hoochies are working very well. Just a reminder, to get your fishing license online and print before you arrive in Alaska. Here is a link - https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/Store/Home/Guest - Kelly

When you look at the marine forecast for Cross Sound ( https://marine.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=PKZ022#.YMPRDi-cZBx ) and it has lots of 10 kt wind forecast for the coming days, it is hard to not get excited. Another sunny nice day here in Elfin Cove! I love it! Last night at dinner I had several guests say they had one more king to get their limit for the week! Pretty awesome to hear that! The King Salmon fishing is getting really good. One guest reported footbal

Wow what a start to the fishing season! King salmon are in down the coast. Some were caught 65' down on the down rigger, mostly with hoochies with a twinkle skirt underneath. Biggest halibut was 146 lbs, came off the saddle, halibut seem to be all over, some came from George Island, and some others from Texas. We had several humpback whale bubble netting reported on June 8th. Love the sunny weather! It was wet for quite some time and the last three days have been sunny,

Lets go fishing! Kings are in and Halibut are going crazy! We have had some wet weather but the last two days were sunny. Limits of Kings the last 2 days, and a 146 lb Halibuty today. Very exciting to see some big fish come in. Here are some photos. Kelly

June 4 2021 Its been wet the last few days. Hoping for some sunshine this next week. Our temps have been around the 50 degree mark. We have been busy finishing up our preseason projects have not had time to go down and catch a king yet, the guided lodges say they are getting them down the coast. We are on our 2nd day fishing with guests. Some good halibut in the 50 - 60 lb range coming in. We get Mary and Paige & Jake today and the rest of our crew for the summer. Chef Bruce