Fish and Forage

Each day anglers take the big boat, Chromagnum, to fish a variety of streams on the islands around Wrangell for silver salmon, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, chum salmon, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, and dolly varden. Fly fishing or conventional tackle are both available. While fishing along the streams, anglers have the opportunity to also forage for mushrooms to bring to the table at the lodge. Along with the stream fishing, we will be ocean fishing for king salmon, silver salmon, halibut and other bottom fish, regulations permitting. Guests will be able to set pots for shrimp and Dungeness crab to provide fresh seafood for the evening meals. Other activities can include digging for clams at low tide and picking berries. Back at the lodge, your Captain, Rick (who also owns a Wild Game Chef business in Montana) will prepare the fish and foraged food for the meal. Guests are welcome to enjoy appetizers and cocktails while the meal is prepared or get more involved with the preparation and learn the best ways of breaking down the harvest and preparing the meals.

Chrome Chasers offers either a fishing-focused experience or a fishing foraging, cooking, and preserving experience. The group can spend more time on either fishing or the combination of fishing and harvesting, preparing and preserving. Rick built a large smokehouse where salmon, halibut, and clams can be smoked. Chrome Chasers can pressure fish and clams. We use a large chamber vacuum sealer to vacuum seal most of the unused seafood and freeze it. What is not consumed at meals will be either smoked and canned or sealed and frozen for guests to take home at the end of their week's stay.

Chrome Chasers takes 4 individual anglers or up to 3 couples for up to a total of 6 guests per week. There are 4 guest bedrooms, each with a queen bed. The fishing foraging trip is great for husbands and wives or a group couples vacation. A guy's or gal’s trip is also easy but we only have 4 separate bedrooms. One of the rooms has an additional twin bed and we can take up to 5 singles as long as 2 individuals don't mind sharing a room. We are happy to accommodate 4, 5 or 6 individuals each week. There are 2 guides and the group can be split up by having either 2 or 3 anglers per guide.

If you come as a single, you will have your room with a closet and queen bed. There are 3 full bathrooms and one half bath in the house that are shared by everyone.  

The harvest is usually excellent for spot prawns during August and September. The commercial crab season opens in June. The Dungeness crab pots don't pull as many crab in the late summer and fall because the commercial fishermen have been out all summer harvesting crab. We still harvest some Dungeness crab, but it is not as plentiful as it is during the spring steelhead season. Fresh seafood is incorporated into every dinner and some breakfasts. King salmon fishing is open in the late summer and fall season and king salmon is our favorite!