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Originally Posted by TheLongRun
Going to Alaska in June. Given the choice between a salmon trip or trying for halibut, which would you choose? I have heard mixed reports about peoples experience with salmon in Alaska, some people loved it, some though it was very dissatisfying. Lots of fish, but kinda like shooting fish in a barrel when they are heading up river. I don't know anyone who has ever been on a halibut trip.
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We went to Alaska in 2010 and had several guided trips for both. Five of six guides we used were very good, but one was a dishonest incompetent PETA type who was more concerned with conserving a plentiful resource than helping us catch any fish.
On the whole, my wife and I found the halibut fishing more satisfying. If you are DoD (military or civilian, have a CAC card), the Halibut trips we did out of Seward Resort were very, very good and we'd recommend them highly. Seward is on Resurrection Bay and if we ever go back, we will spend the whole time there and not waste time on the Kenai Peninsula which was much less satisfying and had more than one or two businesses designed to take unfair advantage of tourists. Resurrection Bay is the most beautiful place on earth, and the tourist oriented businesses there treat customers very well. Better restaurants than Kenai also, and talented guides.
On Kenai, it seems that every spare room is for rent, every unemployed drunk is a fishing guide, and everyone looks at tourists with dollar signs in his eyes.