Professional Care for your Catch
"I have never witnessed such respect and care for the final meat product from any charter fisherman. But then, Captain Steve is a commercial fisherman in a charter captain's hat."
-Andrew Cremata, Fish Alaska Magazine
From the moment that your fish reaches the boat, the clock starts ticking and the quality of the flesh starts to decline. There are steps that all of our guides have been trained to meticulously follow that will ensure that the frozen fish you take home tastes as great a year later as the day it was caught.

Fact or Myth: Larger halibut don't taste as good as the smaller ones?
Ever heard this one? It's a myth!
For some seafood with stringy flesh, like lobsters, they do get tougher as the animal grows in size. For properly cared-for fish like halibut, this is not true. It is terrible to see halibut (any fish really) treated so poorly as to make them taste bad. Big halibut are much more difficult to properly care for owing to their size. Big halibut are sold into the commercial seafood market and it is virtually impossible to tell the difference between a small and a large halibut based on taste... unless they aren't cared for properly.
Looking at other fishing lodges? Do yourself a favor and look carefully at their trophy shots. Are their salmon gutted and gilled? Keep in mind that quality seafood buyers will refuse any fish that has not been properly gutted, bled, and iced. Some of them, like Yakobi Fisheries here in Pelican, even train their commercial fishermen to pressure bleed every single fish to ensure a superior product. Although time-consuming, this allows them to pay their fishermen a premium while staying competitive as the "gold standard" of fish processing.


FAST FACTS
- In 2018, we sent our guests home with 60,000 pounds of wild Alaskan fish fillets in total, an approximate market value of $1.2 million at $20/lb!
- Over the past 5 years, our guests averaged 120 pounds of fish fillets after 4 days fishing!
- Approximate fillet yields (skin-on) from live weight by species: Halibut 50%, Salmon 55%, Lingcod 30%, Rockfish 30%, Black Cod 30%


