The addition of the 33' welded aluminum sport charter boat to our collection of boats has been a big success. It has extensive electronic gear and safety equipment. The tough seaworthy hull is specially designed for Kodiak waters, and with the two 225 hp Yahama outboards for propulsion, it gets us to our hot spots in a hurry. We found it to be a quite comfortable way to spend time in more remote areas on our bear hunts, and the design lends itself nicely to ocean fishing for halibut and salmon. With the small inflatable boat we carry on board, we can safely access more streams and beaches than ever before, thus increasing the stream fishing opportunities. Most weeks we are able to fish at least four different streams for salmon and char. In late September and early October, we also catch and release several nice sized (30+ inches) steelhead in three of these streams.

The red salmon (Sockeye) start to show up in the saltwater and nearby streams in late May and provide a challenge for flyfishing early in the summer. Trolling and mooching for king salmon (Chinook) also begins then and we continued to catch a few 20+ lb. kings throughout the summer. By mid-July the pink salmon (Humpies) have arrived in large number in numerous streams nearby providing a great opportunity for both expert and novice anglers to catch plenty of bright, feisty and quite good tasting salmon (weighing 5 to 8 lbs. typically) on light tackle and flies. Meanwhile, by mid-July, we start catching the silver salmon (Coho) in the seawater near camp by downrigging, mooching, and casting from the boat to large schools of baitfish. By mid-August the silvers (10 to 16 lbs. typically) were congregating in the tidal areas and after the first of September the silvers have started up the streams. The halibut fishing has been superb. We have located several new hot spots each year but right out front of the lodge continues to be probably our best spot and we catch halibut all season long! For those of our guests preferring to take home part of their catch, we have freezers -- no one left without a full cooler again this year.  Deer hunting has been excellent due to a previous low winter kill, elk hunting remained good, and there seems to be more bears than ever -- so bear hunting has been excellent.
 

Picture Previews

To help you get an even better idea of what it is like to live the experience of Port Vita Camp, we have included numerous pictures of our comings and goings, and those of our guests.  Pehaps we will be able to place your picture on these pages in the near future.  We hope so.

In order to reduce the time to download these pictures, we have combined them into several smaller picture sets.  Each picture set contains several great pictures that are representative of our wilderness home.  Nonetheless, some picture sets may take some time to load on your computer, depending on its processor speed, browser settings, etc.  If it takes too long or you get impatient, simply press "stop" and then press "back" to return to this page.

Picture Set #1 - Fishing

Picture Set #2 - Fishing

Picture Set #3 - Hunting

Picture Set #4 - Hunting

Picture Set #5 - Scenes around Port Vita

Picture Set #6 - Nearby Bears

Picture Set #7 - Scenes around camp

Picture Set #8 - Scenes around camp

Picture Set #9 - Scenes of Satisfied Customers - lots of new pictures

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