It has been a very busy couple days.  March Madness is coming to an end.  I have done 4 charters in the month of March which means we are starting 2016 off with a bang.  I have caught 6 nice King Salmon so far and plan on catching many more.  As we all know Winter Kings can be kind of tricky and I have always thought "Not even worth your time."  After catching these Kings lately I have changed my mind.  I explained in detail to all 4 charters that it could be a complete waste of time fishing this time of year but I will do my best, and we can always resort to rockfish and maybe set the crab pots.  We all left with low expectations and coming back with these awesome King Salmon was definitely a treat.  The days are getting longer and the weather getting better.  It is definitely time to start working on the boat, Paris and I installed a new windshield on a beautiful Easter Sunday and it was the first step in the right direction.  Any one who wants to go find a King Salmon just know Captain Tony K. is ready.  By the way one of those bad Kings was WHITE, how cool.

Been very busy with allday groups and there are many to come.  The Chong's fished for 2 days and went home with 119 pounds of filets and the Woodward's left today after 3 days of fishing with I think around 350 pounds of filets.  Those numbers should show how the fishing has improved big time in the last 1 week or so.  The phytoplankton bloom destroyed fishing close to town.  Ketchikan charter boats should be catching 36 pink salmon and going home early on cruise ship trips and some good fisherman were getting 0 fish on 4 hour charter.  I fished close to town yesterday for about 5 hours and ended up with 18 pink salmon.  The Woodward's trip was an amazing trip first day we ran 35 miles out ended up with 16 coho 11 pink 4 halibut 6 snapper 6 rockfish.  Second day was about 20 miles out 31 pink 16 coho 6 halibut, and due to horrible weather yesterday only 18 pink salmon.  The busy season for me starts now, probably wont have much of a daily page for a little while, too busy fishing. Here are a few good fishing pictures of killing Ketchikan Alaska fish.  Paris Knuteson has been on a strict training program this summer also.

A good bottomfishing trip!  Typically no halibut in the box would be a bad thing.  However 18 bottomfish in the box and releasing a nice 80 pound halibut with good weather and good crew was a lot of fun!  Ran to Dall head for some good bottomfishing was a great idea given the fact that salmon fishing is horrible right now.  In my 35 years in Ketchikan Alaska I have never seen phytoplankton bloom and turn the water a very light silty green color.  The salmon I have caught have been kind of a pale color, it is weird.  I heard they are like that due to lack of oxygen, I don't know.  All fisherman on salmon trips are struggling.  I have caught a few every trip but we should be catching lots.  I have mentioned my pink salmon record of 36 pinks 42 minutes many times, and those times are normally mid July.  Scratching for 5 or 6 fish is not normal.  I hope my all day groups that are starting to arrive do well like years past, don't want this to be the record worst year.  Here are couple pics of the Minnesota crew.  Halibut pic doesn't do justice as we were trying to be easy and release her fast.  We let a lot of dinners swim away because of halibut regulations.