Best excursion/day of the cruise by far! Our captain was great and we limited out on salmon! Definitely recommend. Wish we could have had more time in Ketchikan so we could have gone out for halibut too.

I reserved 2 boats since we were a party of 7. We were 5 adults and 2 children under 6. We agreed to split up, girls (4) against the boys (3). Once we were in port (Ketchikan) I was told they had only 1 boat available and only 6 people could go. Terrible news and at the last minute. The charter representative said he would check to see if he could do something and try and get us a second boat. The problem was made worse because we had to take a shuttle into town and then find our captain. We were only in port a short time. When we finally got to town, then found the captain, the charter representative said he had managed to find us a second boat and captain. Now time was passing, we waited about an hour for the second boat to pull up. We split up 3 on the newer smaller boat and 4 on the bigger boat. Off we went. No complaints about the scenery, the boats or the conditions. We soon had lines in the water. The bigger boat took much longer since the boat was restricted due to its since and the “no wake” rule for larger boats (30’). Our boat was a 26’. Too much time was lost waiting for the second boat, traveling to the pickup zone and then dealing with the no wake rule. At the end of the day, we had to head back to port and get the shuttle. The larger boat was no permitted to use the dock where the Encore was docked. Had we had 2 - 26 footers, we could have both gone directly to the Encore dock.
The biggest issue I had was the last-minute scrambling around trying to get the second boat. I made the reservation about a month before the reservation date. All this would have given us more time with lines in the water instead of wasting time at the dock. No complaints about my captain. Good guy and was doing what he thought would catch us bigger fish. He got us that.

Great day on the water, maxed on halibut and caught plenty of salmon. Well experienced and nice captain! Very responsive company.

Jeremiah was an amazing captain. He was positive, helpful, and paved the way for us to catch our limit of halibut. We would come back and fish with him any day!

Friendly, knowledgeable staff. Plenty of salmon!