Valdez

Heading to Valdez Monday for work going to be there for 8 weeks any one have any tips or want to meet up some time

A really fun fishery in considering taking my kid to this year are the pinks off Allison point and really anywhere in the area.  I have no clue about bottom fish. It sounds like most of them travel a long ways. But there's gotta be stuff there is think.

A trip I love is Valdez on Labor Day weekend. Cohos...BIG coho fishing can be lights out freaky good. But that's more than 8 weeks out.

Look here. Maybe there's something.  https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/FishingReports/index.cfm?ADFG=R2.summary&Area_key=11&RecordID=36

Slivers for sure I have some goals this summer im going to be there Intel the snow starts or if they send me some where els it's 8 week on 2 weeks off  I'm going to pick up one of those maps from bj sports before I leave so I can find some good holes maybe get a fish finder also I been eye balling later this summer once I get some pay checks in

Slivers for sure I have some goals this summer im going to be there Intel the snow starts or if they send me some where els it's 8 week on 2 weeks off  I'm going to pick up one of those maps from bj sports before I leave so I can find some good holes maybe get a fish finder also I been eye balling later this summer once I get some pay checks in

Do you have a smartphone?  It's not cheap with all of the inapt buys but check out Navionics. 

You can go to their webapp to see what you would see on the smartphone or tablet.  The current and tides don't work on the webapp but I use it a lot to plan.  To increase detail click not the sonar Icon bottom left.  That's one of the must have inapp buys I think.
http://webapp.navionics.com/#@6&key=gehtJruyq%5B

I'll have to give that a look does it act like a gps for the water

I paid the 20$ for the sonar maps .... And then found I could download land contours and overlay those as well ( bonus). 

I like it, and unless you are deep in against high rocky walls the gps tracking is pretty good.   I was able to follow my ferry journey for hundreds of miles of coast that had zero cell coverage but the location seemed to track really well!

Off whiskey gulch the depth at location by sonar chart and the depth by my lowrance FF were within a couple feet - tide difference. 

Very good - I like the Navionics Boating app.   

And one with land contours ...

Two days of few hour fishing trips starting to learn Valdez is not very kayak friendly. Sort of like  whittier not a hole lot going on Intel the salmon come closer. Still have 7 weeks to find me some fish will find a good hole at some point. Maybe I'll mothership