FISHING TRIPS & CHARTERS · AROUND THE WORLD
Find the water. Book the boat.
Salmon charters in Alaska, cod under the Arctic lights, basket boats on a Vietnamese river, blue-water charters off Florida. Real reviews of the fishing trips worth booking, wherever the fish are running.
Worth the journey for the water alone
Three places you go just to fish.
A halibut charter in the Inside Passage. Cod in an Arctic fjord with the lights overhead. A basket boat on a slow Vietnamese river. Some destinations earn the flight for the fishing alone, and these three lead the site.
Alaska, USA
Ketchikan
The salmon capital of the world sits on the edge of the Inside Passage, where charter boats run for king and silver salmon in the morning and drop for halibut on the bottom by afternoon. Eagles work the same water you do, and a deckhand fillets and bags the catch at the dock so it flies home with you. No place on the site has more trips to choose from.
- 1 Private Fishing Charter in Ketchikan
- 2 Ketchikan salmon and halibut fishing charter
- 3 Ketchikan Alaska Fishing and Wilderness Dining
Norway
Tromsø
Far above the Arctic Circle, the fjords around Tromsø hold some of the heaviest cod and coalfish in Europe, and the boats fish them year-round. In deep winter the lines go down in the dark with the northern lights overhead; the skipper runs the sonar, the suits keep you warm, and a pot of fish soup waits for the run back to the harbour.
- 1 Tromsø’s Top-Rated Fjord & Fishing Cruise – All-Inclusive
- 2 Tromsø: Fishing Sea Safari
- 3 Tromsø: Arctic Fjord Cruise & Fishing Experience
Vietnam
Hoi An
Fishing here is older and gentler: a round bamboo basket boat paddled out through the water-coconut palms of the Thu Bon river, casting nets the way the village has for generations, then spinning the little coracle in circles for the laughs. Most trips fold in the market and a cooking class, so the morning’s catch becomes lunch.
- 1 Cooking Class Hoi An:Local Market, Basket Boat, Fishing & Cooking
- 2 Hoi An Cooking Class(Local market,Basket Boat,Fishing & Cooking)
- 3 Hoi An: Coconut Basket Boat Ride in the Coconut Forest
If you only book one
The trip more anglers rave about than any other.
Out of every fishing trip on the site, this is the one travellers come home telling everyone they know to book.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Fishing Trips Right Now
Alaskan salmon charters, Arctic fjord cruises, basket boats on the Thu Bon, Gulf Stream offshore runs. The bookings travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a destination
The best fishing trips, place by place.
Ketchikan for the salmon charters, Tromsø for the fjord cod, Hoi An for the basket boats. Pick where you are headed and we will show you the trips worth booking there.
Where to cast
Three kinds of water, three kinds of day.
Start with the water you want under the boat. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a completely different day on the line waiting at the end of it.
Tromsø
Drop a line in the polar dark.
Out from Tromsø the fjords cut deep between the peaks, and the cod and coalfish hold in the cold water below. A skipper runs you out from the harbour, finds the fish on the sonar and hands you the rod; in winter the lines go down under the northern lights, in summer under a sun that never sets. Warm suits and a pot of fish soup are part of the deal.
See the best Tromsø fishing trips →Rovaniemi
Fish the ice on the Arctic Circle.
When the Lapland lakes freeze hard, the fishing moves on top of them. A snowmobile or sleigh runs you out across the snow, a guide augers a hole through the ice, and you drop a short line for perch and whitefish in the quiet below. Hot berry juice, a fire on the bank and a real chance of the lights coming out while you wait. A first-timer’s day, gear and all.
See the best Rovaniemi fishing trips →Reykjavik
Out of the harbour into the open Atlantic.
An hour from the Reykjavik docks the seabed drops away and the cod, haddock and pollock stack up over the banks. A morning sea-angling trip hands you a heavy jig and lets the cold North Atlantic do the rest; the crew grills your catch on the way back in, and puffins and the odd whale break the surface around the boat. No experience needed, just sea legs.
See the best Reykjavik fishing trips →Oahu, deep water
Where the drop-off starts minutes from shore.
Off Oahu the bottom falls to thousands of feet a short run past the harbour, and the big pelagics ride the blue water close in. A half-day charter trolls for mahi-mahi, ono and the Pacific blue marlin the islands are famous for, with a crew that has worked this water for years setting the spread and working the chair.
- 1 3-Hour Honolulu Bottom Fishing Adventure
- 2 Private Luxury Sportfishing Experience Aboard Limitless
- 3 Private Fishing Charter for Family and Friends in Honolulu
By the water
How far out do you want to go?
A quiet morning on a frozen Lapland lake. A working day in a sheltered Arctic fjord. A full charter past the inlet into the open blue. Pick the kind of water that sounds like your sort of day.
Stay sheltered
Rovaniemi, hard water.A snowmobile out onto a frozen Lapland lake, an auger through the ice and a line dropped into the dark below. Hot drinks, quiet snow and a fire on the shore. The calmest day you can possibly call fishing.
Work the fjord
Tromsø, into the fjord.Out from the harbour on a small boat, into the sheltered fjords where the cod hold deep. A skipper runs the sonar, hands you the rod and works the rich water between the mountains. Fresh fish soup on the way back in.
Run offshore
Fort Lauderdale, blue water.Past the inlet and out where the Gulf Stream runs close to shore, trolling the deep blue for mahi, sailfish and tuna. A full charter crew, a fighting chair and the biggest fish of the trip on the line.
Punta Cana
Trade the resort for the deep blue.
A short run off the Punta Cana coast the water turns deep cobalt and the big fish move through: mahi-mahi and wahoo most of the year, white and blue marlin in season. A charter trolls the drop-off with the spread out, and the crew handles everything from rigging to gaff. Most boats run a morning and an afternoon trip, so you can be back on the sand by lunch with a story and a cooler.
See all 16 Punta Cana fishing trips →By place
Pick the water you want to fish.
Ketchikan for the salmon charters. Tromsø for the fjord cod. Hoi An for the basket boats. Rovaniemi for the ice. Fort Lauderdale for the deep-sea runs. Reykjavik for the open Atlantic.
More destinations
More places worth wetting a line.
Naples for the Gulf, Cabo for the marlin, Svolvær for the Lofoten cod, Edinburgh for the Fife fishing villages. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three trips, three waters
Pick a place, plan the day around the catch.
A salmon river morning in Soldotna, a Gulf charter afternoon in Naples, a Lofoten sea evening in Svolvær. Three destinations, three completely different days on the line.
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