Halibut/Rockfish/Ling Cod Combo Trip

Do you want to go catching or go fishing? Do you want to fish in areas where you will not have competition? Do you want to see whales of all species, sea lions, sea otters, sea birds, black bears, Sitka blacktail deer, and if time allows maybe even a Kodiak Brown Bear. The Casino Combo is a catch everything charter. There are a lot of Homer fishermen that hate on Alaska Ocean Professionals for there reputation of this charter. The Casino has a reputation for bringing back lots of fish. If you don’t believe us ask “Butt Whackers” our fish fillet friends. Butt Whackers fillets the Casino’s catch every day. The Casino and Captain Gabe Linegar from 1 July- end of August exclusively run this trip 5 days a week. You will be fishing locations 80-100 miles from Homer. This trip is a catching trip not a fishing trip. We do not go after huge barn door halibut on this trip even though you might hook into one. You will fish for whatever bites halibut, lingcod, rockfish, salmon, grey cod etc etc etc. This trip is not a trip for people that don’t want to fish. You don’t get to fish your rod in a rod holder because you are doing what’s called jigging all day long. Jigging is the up and down movement of your rod making your jig under the water look like a bait.

We “move and groove” all day long as Captain Gabe calls it. The M/v Casino fishes around Kodiak island everyday. Don’t let some big talking guy on the phone tell you he fishes Kodiak island everyday because it’s not true. The Casino and a couple Kodiak based overnight venture boats are the only operators in the 40 mile area. This trip though is a lot of catching is also resource conscious. We don’t want our customers being hoggish and keeping more fish than they can eat or killing breeding fish. Alaska Ocean Professionals want to maintain our fishery and encourage releasing big female lingcod and not targeting yellow eye rockfish that are more than 80 years old. Sustainable fishing is our key.