fish - Forage - harvest
the fishing
At Chrome Chasers, you will fish the streams of remote islands around Wrangell Island with fly rods or conventional tackle. The fish species you will have the opportunity to catch can include silver salmon, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, chum salmon, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, and dolly varden. Chrome Chasers also fish the inland passages for silver salmon, king salmon, halibut, ling cod, and other bottom fish.
Foraging
Mushroom and berry foraging opportunities are available up every stream we fish each day. The species of mushrooms and berries changes throughout August and into September. Guests are welcome to put down their rods and scan the nearby trees, downed logs, and forest floor for wild edible mushrooms. The most common species we find include golden chanterelles, yellow foot chanterelles, hedgehog mushrooms, chicken of the woods, king boletes, shaggy manes, and occasionally black trumpets.
Harvesting
Each day, guests and guides pull Dungeness crab and shrimp pots from the ocean floor to bring delicious seafood to the nightly dinners. During low tide, there is an opportunity to go to the beach and dig for butter clams and cockles. Blueberry and huckleberry bushes line the streams and the berries can be found in abundance in the forest near the Lodge. The tart berries are delicious on ice cream or in pancakes for breakfast.