Wooden Wheel Lodge

As a guest of Wooden Wheel Lodge in southeast Alaska you'll enjoy some of Alaska's very best salt water fishing. Immense reefs and limited commercial fishing impact in the area translate into superb conditions for anglers. The reefs are home to schools of herring, needlefish, shrimp and other feed that sustain life in the saltwater.

The local streams support some of the largest runs of spawning salmon found in the entire region. In addition to salmon spawning locally we get access to other salmon heading to spawn in the Stikine River and three state operated hatcheries, as well as the migratory Canadian runs have to migrate through our fishing grounds.

King salmon congregate in this region in the fall, winter, and spring months. and are normally found feeding in our small cove. Weather is cool during these months, averaging 35 degrees, but the salmon fishing is hot! The average winter king weighs in around 18 pounds and hook ups are normally within an hour.

As a Wooden Wheel Lodge guest you can enjoy a combo trip of hunting and salmon fishing during certain times of the year.

Whether this is going to be your first Alaska fishing vacation or if you're just wanting to try a new Alaska fishing lodge and guide service, you'll enjoy what Wooden Wheel Fishing Lodge has to offer.

Halibut Fishing

Halibut fishing is as good as the salmon angling. Whether it's the 25-70 pound fish or the lunker, you're sure to love the halibut fishing! Nothing beats a freezer full of both salmon AND halibut. The average halibut for the past three seasons has been 96 pounds. Most of our halibut fishing is on the reefs of our area only minutes from our fishing lodge. The average depth we fish at is between 50 and 180 feet.

Our lodge is the place to be for fishermen seeking trophy sized halibut. Commercial halibut fishing doesn't impact our region and we're far from larger communities where locals subsist on the bounty of Alaska halibut fishing. You'll be fishing with a maximum of twenty-four ounces of lead on a standup tuna rod rigged with a Penn 113H reel spooled with spectra eighty-pound test line. When you get hooked into the "Big One" and you don't think you can handle it, we'll aid you in your victory and outfit you in the latest attire for standup fishing.

Need any more proof? Larry Csonka, former Miami Dolphin NFL great and host of "Stihl's North to Alaska" television series, he battled the largest halibut of his life here with us! Larry caught this monster Alaska halibut, weighing in at over 376 pounds, on his first day, five minutes from the lodge in the first three minutes of fishing!