Sport fishing

Juneau Channel Island State Marine Park

Juneau has dozens of salmon fishing guide services, with full- and half-day charters by boat, shore or floatplane. Fishing from a boat around Juneau Channel Island State Marine Park is one option, and halibut trips are offered too.

Tongass National Forest

Ketchikan runs salmon charters of 3 or 4 hours in calm, protected waters, halibut trips of 4 or 5 hours by deep jigging, and 5 to 8 hour combos that add rockfish and lingcod. The fishing around the Tongass National Forest is counted among the best in the world.

Taiya Inlet

Skagway is about king salmon trolling in Taiya Inlet from June through August, with returning adult kings in June and July and feeding immature kings in August. A 4 hour charter runs on a 32 ft catamaran, and shore anglers can fish from Yakutania Point and Dyea Point.

Private charters, full or half day, fish the deep water off the barrier reef, and half-day reef trips fish the shallow lagoons between the reef and the shore.

Aruba's deep-sea fishing is a day on a sport-fishing yacht with a local captain.

Cozumel's deep-sea charters leave from Puerto Abrigo Marina and fish the deep channel between the island and the Yucatán, which fishes well all year.

Roatan's deep-sea trips fish just off the reef for marlin, tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi, and there are lobster fishing trips where you catch your own dinner.

Santorini's fishing charters go out in the morning, the afternoon or at sunset, up to a 7-hour open-sea tuna trip, and the crew grills the catch on board.

Boats troll a short way off Bonaire for blue marlin, sailfish, wahoo, mahi mahi and yellowfin tuna, and shore fishing on the rocky west coast brings barracuda and snapper.

Key West National Wildlife Refuge

Key West has guided fishing trips in the Dry Tortugas. The waters around the mangrove islands of Key West National Wildlife Refuge are good for fishing.