After decades of concentrating on a single species during our fishing trips, Puffin Fishing Charters has decided to target various combinations of fish species depending on what is available at that particular time of our fishing season. This multi-species fishing provides for a broader experience for our clients with the opportunity to bottom-fish with heavy rods and tackle seeking Halibut and other deep-sea dwellers, and to use lighter tackle to hook into some Rockfish or Salmon when those species are in the area. Combination trips also give you a “Captain’s Platter” of different fishing tastes to take home and enjoy!
Halibut is on the menu daily except on Wednesdays for the entire season. However, if a Wednesday is the only available day you are able to fish, please inquire about our GAF program that gives Puffin the exclusive ability to retain Halibut on closed days.
We design our multi-species trips depending on what species is available during the summer months with Halibut always being on the menu through the entire season.
Our crew has been guiding Alaska Salmon and Halibut fishing charters out of Seward, Alaska for more than 25 years. We know where the fish are! With our captains having the combined experience of nearly 50 years, Puffin Fishing Charters is proud to say that we have the best and most experienced captains in the Seward charter fleet. All of our crew members are personable, are incredible fishermen, and have a high regard for seamanship, with safety always a priority.
“Experience makes the difference!”
Our custom-built 36-foot sport charter boats were designed with your comfort and safety in mind. Our vessels feature expansive rear decks with the capacity to fish around their entire perimeters, providing plenty of room for everyone.
Comfortable, heated cabins feature marine suspension seating throughout, providing a warm, comfortable ride for everyone, not just the captain.
Our captains are US Coast Guard-licensed and have First Aid and CPR certifications. Our fully-insured vessels have undergone extensive dockside and on-the-water inspections and safety drills conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Our experience and our boats aren’t all that set us apart. Our equipment is top-of-the-line so you can experience the best Alaska fishing experience possible.
The heavy tackle we use for bottom-fishing includes Avet reels. We spool our reels with 80# XP TUFF-LINE XP. Our reels are mounted on Seeker Alaska Series Ocean Rods.
The light tackle we use is Shimano Tekota reels. We use 30# Ande line and mount the reel on medium action Ugly Stix.
Our Garmin electronics enable us to put you on the fish and then it’s up to you to “Catch ’em up!
After decades of concentrating on a single species during our fishing trips, Puffin Fishing Charters has decided to target various combinations of fish species depending on what is available at that particular time of our fishing season. This multi-species fishing provides for a broader experience for our clients with the opportunity to bottom-fish with heavy rods and tackle seeking Halibut and other deep-sea dwellers, and to use lighter tackle to hook into some Rockfish or Salmon when those species are in the area. Combination trips also give you a “Captain’s Platter” of different fishing tastes to take home and enjoy!
Halibut is on the menu daily except on Wednesdays for the entire season. However, if a Wednesday is the only available day you are able to fish, please inquire about our GAF program that gives Puffin the exclusive ability to retain Halibut on closed days.
We design our multi-species trips depending on what species is available during the summer months with Halibut always being on the menu through the entire season.
For the ultimate breath-taking…rod-bending…light-tackle fight of a lifetime – if you have never hooked into a King Salmon, this trip is a must-do! King (Chinook) Salmon are the largest Salmon in the Pacific Ocean. King Salmon range from 15 to 60 pounds and up. We target these feeder Kings for eight to ten weeks at the beginning of the season until the Silver (Coho) Salmon start to show up.
We fish for King Salmon by trolling, with the boat moving at low speed, drawing lines through the water at different depths, dressed with lures or bait. Our captains have been fishing for Kings for several years in these waters and are dialed in to what entices these finicky feeders.
The limit for these wild ocean King Salmon is one or two per person per day, depending on the area fished.
Our captains do their best to target as many species as possible during the trip, but due to time constraints, sea conditions, and the availability of certain species, most trips are dual-species.
You do have the option of designing the fishing day by reserving the boat for yourself and your guests. You have the option of securing 10, 12, or 18 seats, depending on which of our vessels you select. With an exclusive trip, you can choose how you want to spend your fishing time, including what species you want to target and how much of your day you want to spend fishing for each, availability and weather permitting.
Pacific cod or “P-Cod “as we say locally is a white fish often over looked. It has recently gained popularity due to the rising costs of halibut. Through-out Alaska you see Pacific cod on more menus each year. Often cursed as an inconvenience while Halibut fishing, here at PFC we believe it is an excellent fish for table fare.
Grey Gold is the name often used in the highly regulated commercial fishery. Pacific cod is the second largest commercial groundfish catch off Alaska and virtually all of the United States.
In 2021, commercial harvest of Pacific cod totaled 330.4 million pounds, and was worth $86.5 million
Pacific Cod offer fast action and provide an excellent way to round out your freezer with healthy, delicious seafood.
We are offering these trips on the Tuesday and Wednesday’s halibut closures through-out the summer.
We will round off the day with either Rockfish or Salmon.
Salmon in July thru August.
Alaska Silver Salmon weight approximately 8 to 12 pounds when they first arrive to resurrection Bay in late June to early July. Their ravenous feeding throughout the season pushes their weight to 15 pounds or more by late summer. These feisty, acrobatic silver bullets often dart at high speeds and leap up and out of the water only to splash back down to challenge you once again to the fight of a lifetime. We commonly get two, three, four, or more Salmon on simultaneously, though hooking a silver is only part of the battle. Getting these fish netted and into the boat before they shake your hook is an even greater challenge.
Your Day of Alaska Silver Salmon Fishing, We Typically mooch for Silver Salmon. “Mooching” is a technique where each person jigs their hook baited with a small piece of herring. When the fish bites, the hook gets set and the fight is on, You will find this is a more effective technique than troll fishing when the fish are schooled up and allows the angler to feel the bite. The catch limits for Silver Salmon is six fish per person inside Resurrection Bay and three Silvers each when caught outside the bay.
Every spring, our inland waters explode with an abundance of bait fish, which attracts schools of Alaskan Halibut, ranging in size from 10 pounds to 400 pounds. These Halibut rise from ocean depths of over 1000 feet to as little as 50 feet of water in search of bait as they begin their frenzied feast. Alaska Halibut are some of the finest athletes in the sea. With no body fat and pure muscle, these rod-straining fish can exhaust you by their brute strength as they fight you back to the bottom. We invite you to try your luck, with the assistance of our highly trained crew, in landing these robust monsters.
Sport-caught Alaskan Halibut have weighed over 400 pounds. The typical fish caught on our fishing charters weigh between 15 and 50 pounds, with many fish over 100 pounds brought in daily. On
September 16, 2004, we broke our Halibut record of 269 pounds with a whopping 348-pound lunker caught on a 24-ounce jig
During our multi-species trips, depending on the type of combination trip you booked, we always tend to get incidental catches of Rockfish and Lingcod. There are several different Rockfish species and their season is open throughout the summer. Lingcod and Yellow Eye rockfish cannot be retained until their season opens on July 1. You are allowed to retain one Lingcod and three Rockfish, only one rockfish can be nonpelagic. Like Rockfish, Lingcod are also susceptible to overharvesting. Lingcod fishing is also restricted to waters outside Resurrection Bay and only to fish greater than 35 inches in length. The limit for Lingcod is one per person per day in the Gulf of Alaska.
Unless you reserve the full boat for an exclusive trip, we currently do not specifically target Lingcod. Due to stock-depletion evident in the past couple of seasons, we are taking a hiatus from directly harvesting Lingcod as part of our daily trips until we see stocks rebound. However, we still retain Lingcod as incidental catches.
