I will be vacationing on the Northwest end of Prince of Wales Island (Port Protection) in mid August. Does anyone have any experience with the salmon and halibut fishing in this area? Any freshwater fishing here or is it all saltwater? Any info would be helpful.

Don't know much about the fishing but they have have some BIG ASS BLACK BEARS on that Island...Good Luck

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Have you hunted there for them?

Not me but I have a friend who took a big boar off it last year ...what a monster it was 8' plus sleep tight....next to you're 44,you might check out some of the B.C. fishing sites Good Luck

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Chris Batin has made an industry out of showing people where to fish in Alaska. Chris's URL is www.alaskaangler.com, and he answers personal emails as well. He's published several books. 'Alaska's Trophy Gamefish' is worth a look (mines always being lent out) as is 'Fishing Alaska on Dollars A Day' (3rd Edition)which mentions Barnes Lake in NE Prince of Wales island as having good sockeye, silver and chum runs mid-August through mid-September (p. 66). Honker Lake has fair sockeye and silver fishing as well (p. 77). Black Bear Lake (Osprey might be onto something here!) is in central PoW and has rainbows, cutts and dollies (p. 67). I didn't look carefully but I'm certain your specific questions would be answered somewhere in there.

I know there are several medium- and high-end fishing resorts on the island that specialize in the saltwater silver and halibut fisheries. (Dave Vedder wrote about one of them in Saltwater Sportsman a month or so back, but I don't have the mag any more.) Do search using 'Prince of Wales Island fishing' and I'm sure you'll end up with plenty of leads.