What To Bring On A Homer Alaska Fishing Charter
What to bring on our Homer Alaska fishing charters is just one of the many questions we get. Don’t forget to check out our FAQ for other frequently asked questions. Our fishing charters range from $350 – $500 per person depending on the length, type of trip, and date of excursion. We offer a wide range of trips from 3/4 day local trips to long range full-day excursions targeting several different species of fish.
Our trips fill up every season so we strongly encourage you to book your dates as soon as possible because seats are limited. All of our boats are fast, clean, heated, extremely well cared for, and are limited to 6 passengers for your comfort. We can accommodate group sizes of up to 24 with our fleet.
What We Provide
- Experienced USGC captains and crew
- Clean, fast, comfortable, safe, boats and all safety equipment
- Quality fishing gear, tackle & bait
- Fish Filleting
- Awesome attitudes, big smiles, warm personalities, and a desire to take you fishing. We’re so lucky to get to do this!
What To Bring
- Fishing License, please make sure to include a king stamp if you are on one of our salmon combo trips
- Food and beverages. Bring lunches, drinks, snacks, water. Alcohol, such as beer, wine are okay. Please do not bring hard alcohol and please no glass
- Layered clothing including rain gear. It’s a great idea to bring a rain jacket and rain paints as they help keep clothes dry from splash and protect your clothes from getting “fishy’.
- Hats, gloves, sunglasses & sunscreen
- Any and all shoes will work but the ultimate halibut fishing shoe is an Xtra tough rubber boot if you have it. But again, even tennis shoes will work fine.
- Motion sickness medicine if needed. Please take prior to boarding boat, or the night before, for the best results
- Phone and/or camera. You’ll definitely be taking pictures
What NOT to Bring
- Large coolers. Small coolers are totally fine.
- Illegal drugs: This is USCG vessel even marijuana is not allowed on board per regulations
- Do not bring glass
- Pets are not allowed onboard
- Smoking is also not allowed on board.
What To Wear
- For the most part you don’t have to overthink this. If you’re only fishing with us for 1 day you can get by with whatever clothes you would wear for the temperatures expected that day. You don’t absolutely have to bring special clothing. That being said, if you can bring something more waterproof than tennis shoes that come up over the ankle, and a waterproof outer layer, you’ll be a bit more comfortable.
- Look at the weather for the day, the outside air temperature, and rain forecast and do what you would normally do! Just know that on the water the temperatures will be a bit cooler, it will be higher humidity, and there will always be a little saltwater around.
- Dress in layers with a waterproof outer layer. A knit cap to keep your head and ears warm can be helpful on cooler days. Remember we are surrounded by 52 degree water and summer conditions can range anywhere from 45 degrees to 75 degrees on any given day. July 9th, 1956 the recorded high temperature was 57 degrees. You’ll want a cap in those kinds of conditions.
- Bring a waterproof outer layer. Even cheap and disposable. All our boats have warm heated cabins to escape a rainy drizzly day if we have one but you’ll still want even something cheap and disposable on the deck and it will help block and wind as well.
- You’ll find that most of our crews daily wear doesn’t change from day to day. It consists of light-weight thermal underwear, outer layer of carharts jeans or something similar, a tshirt with a hoodie over the top, rubber bibs (in place of rain pants because it covers both legs and chest), and a rain shell. Always at the ready is a knit cap and gloves. This approach handles almost everyday from mid-May to Oct