Yakutat Charter Boat Company

03/12/2026

Early Season Deep Water Discount – Limited Time!

The early season in Yakutat is when the BIG halibut bite heats up — and right now you can experience it for 20% less with the Yakutat Charter Boat Company.

Book your trip May 21 – June 4, 2026 and enjoy 20% off everything:

🐟 World-class halibut fishing
🧊 Glacier tours
🚤 Boat rentals
🏡 Lodging
📦 Fish processing

Your trip also lines up perfectly with the incredible Yakutat Tern Festival — one of Alaska’s most unique wildlife and nature celebrations.

Even better: this offer aligns with special airfare discounts from Alaska Airlines.

🌊 Fewer crowds. Incredible fishing. Huge savings.

But the discount is only available for a limited number of early-season reservations.

📞 Call Mark Sappington directly to reserve your dates: 907-744-4680

🌐 www.alaska-charter.com
Yakutat is the northern most town in southeast Alaska

Limited early-season availability.

03/01/2026

01/31/2025

Hope to see all my friends and regulars this 2026 season. Call ahead to make sure of available dates. We are running some great specials this year, so give a call and talk to me directly.

Mark.

01/07/2024

I’m thinking the Starbucks’ in Barcelona Spain are a God Send.

04/26/2023

2nd 40 pound plus king salmon this week. It was ladies day. This fish ended up being a WHITE king. The most bestes!!!

03/01/2023

You’re killing me, Smalls! 😂

05/07/2022

Another day of landing some nice fish. Love how Scott captured this landing.

11/28/2019

Dear Friends,

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I am so blessed to have people like all of your as my guests and customers. Thank you so much for being a part of my life, I feel so fortunate to be able to spend time out on the water with good people. Thank you.

As for the fishing this summer 2019... It was a pretty good year, again. With regards to the halibut, it seems the stocks are building nicely. I ended the season this year all the way into November, and caught large halibut most every day of the season. Halibut fishing is getting easier each year as of late, which tells me stocks are doing well. Seems halibut fishing is just getting better every year as of late, and the only bottleneck would be the stormy weather we sometimes get in the fall.

The silvers stayed offshore this year, but in the same timeframe as usual. Late July-early September. We did not get many silvers near shore at all this year, nor did the commercial trollers. However, the netters around the rivers did well. This flip flop of success is pretty normal. Another version is when the water is clear enough for the silvers to see the troll gear, and they are near shore, the trollers bonkem pretty well, and the nets don’t get as many. What I am concerned with however, and we saw it this year, is the warmer water changing swim patterns, messing with my sport fishing, as well the warmer water impacting the smolts as they are more temperature sensitive. We saw the sockeye run last year heavily impacted all over the state, likely due to smolt die off.

Another good note is that the lings are on the rebound. We did better as the season went along. Seems early there were not lings on every spot like in years past, and we have to target in order to produce. As the season went along, I did notice fish on more spots around Yakutat Bay. I especially appreciate how each region is managed locally, and that is why we see slightly different slot sizes and bag limits than in other places. Seemed best Ling fishing was July this year.

Overall, this year was marked by oddly, “San Diego” like weather. It was so pleasant to not have a rainy-windy year. I wonder is it will be a trend.

Again, Thanks to all of you. Best regards and warm holiday wishes,

Mark

10/05/2018

Halibut fishing remained strong to the very end this year. The weather has been good... Makes me wonder if our season is inching it's was further into the fall as we experience changing global weather conditions. WIth that, I would encourage you to be in touch late in the season, and if you have a weekend or a few days, perhaps a quick trip up. We can get out on the day of your arrival when coming out of Seattle, have a day of fishing for halibut and lings, fish the third day before you get on the plane. With in house fish processing, and great lodging options, a trip up late in the season is a great mini vacation option. I am going to have to have groups to be between 4-6. Call or email. Mark