I’ve taken charters out of Valdez for halibut, but those captains generally know exactly where to go and drop anchor. It is usually a long ride, out to Montague Island.
I have had good luck from late June through August. I suspect your lack of success is due to not dropping on the good holes, as opposed to not being there at the right time of year.
You may be right but we are limited on how far we can go out. Going in July we've managed to put fish in the boat but nothing of any size and the weather is usually always [bleep] which is another reason we're going at the end of May/beginning of June. We could probably make the run to Montague but then we'd have to run back to port the same day, whereas the area we are fishing we can stay out there and fish for 2-3 days and don't have to run back to port after each days fishing.
