Rates include:

  • Modern, “State of the Art” custom designed fishing boats
  • Premium equipment, bait, and tackle needed during your trip
  • Top quality Okuma Rods & Reels
  • Patient, professional, licensed, and insured Guide or Captain
  • Deckhand on Defiance boats (Westport)
  • Your fishing questions answered
  • Most trips are 6- 8 Hours, Tuna & Halibut trips are 8-10 Hours

Rates do not include:

  • 8.9% sales tax for trips in Grays Harbor County (Westport and local area rivers)
  • 10.3% sales tax for trips in King County (Puget Sound and local area rivers)
  • Gratuity, 15-20% of the full-price trip cost is customary (cash only)
  • Fish filleting services performed by your deckhand (cash only)

You Bring:

  • Polarized sunglasses on river trips, rain or shine
  • Sack lunch and drink for the day, small soft coolers are ideal
  • Dress for the forecasted weather, that could mean rain gear
  • Left hand retrieve reels if you require them
  • Credit card for paying your balance, cash for fish filleting and gratuity
  • Anglers meet us at the water

Additional:

  • Fishing licenses are sold on the boats for $13 required for 16 and older.  Licenses are complimentary for private parties of 6 on ARSC owned boats only.
  • Fish filleting, $5 per salmon, lingcod or tuna, $10 per limit of rockfish, and $10 per halibut on Westport trips, all other locations complimentary.
  • 15-20% Gratuity for the crew is customary.
  • Please read our DEPOSIT POLICY carefully.

Saltwater Ocean Trips – Westport, WA

  • 29′ Defiance Pilothouse, 6 Anglers – Twin Outboards, Bench Seating, Sit-down Head or Bucket.
  • 40′ Allied Walk-around or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse, 6 Anglers – Equipped with triple outboards, suspension seating, full-size head, and a SEAKEEPER Gyro-Stabilizer resulting in an ultra stable fishing platform, greatly reducing the possibility of seas-sickness, stumbling, or even falling.

Westport, Washington – Pacific Ocean

  • OCEAN Lingcod & Rockfish:

    29′ Defiance Pilothouse | $261.71 per angler + tax, March 13th – July 14th, 7 days per week

    40′ Allied or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse | $321.40 per angler + tax, March 13th – July 14th, 7 days per week

  • DEEP WATER Ocean Lingcod & Rockfish:

    29′ Defiance Pilothouse | $344.35 per angler + tax, June 1st – June 15th, 7 days per week

    40′ Allied or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse | $399.45 per angler + tax, June 1st – 15th, 7 days per week

  • DEEP WATER Ocean Halibut & Lingcod:

    2027 Halibut Season: TBD

    29′ Defiance Pilothouse | $440.77 per angler + tax – Twin Outboards, Bench Seating, Sit-down Head or Bucket

    40′ Allied or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse | $495.87 per angler + tax – Triple Outboards, Suspension Seating, Full-Size Head, SEAKEEPER Gyro-Stabilization

  • OCEAN Chinook and Coho Salmon Fishing:

    29′ Defiance Pilothouse | $261.71 per angler + tax

    40′ Allied or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse | $321.40 per angler + tax

  • OCEAN Salmon & Rock Fish Combo:

    29′ Defiance Pilothouse | $344.35 per angler + tax, Available any day that Salmon is open

    40′ Allied or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse | $399.45 per angler + tax, Available any day that Salmon is open

  • One Day Express Style Albacore Tuna: July – October.  Trip meets at 5:30-6:30am and returns between 4:00-4:30pm.

    29′ Defiance Pilothouse | $495.87 per angler + tax – Twin Outboards, Bench Seating, Sit-down Head or Bucket.  Only 6 anglers per boat.

    40′ Allied or 42′ Defiance Pilothouse | $596.88 per angler + tax – Triple Outboards, Suspension Seating, Full-Size Head, SEAKEEPER Gyro-Stabilization.  Only 6 anglers per boat.

  • Click to go to our Tuna Specific Site : www.WashingtonTunaCharters.com

Saltwater Puget Sound Trips, Seattle, 6 anglers | 29′ Pilothouse, 32′ Allied Walk-Around and 30′ Pilothouse

Seattle, Washington – Puget Sound, Shilshole Bay Marina

  • Puget Sound Salmon Fishing, 6 hour morning trip

    $303.72 per angler + tax | July 1st – September,  7 days per week

  • Puget Sound Salmon Fishing, 4 hour afternoon trip

    $253.85 per angler + tax | July 1st – September,  7 days per week

River Trips | 20′-23′ open Jet Boats, 3-6 Anglers

We consider ourselves the “new school” type of fishing charter. Our fishing methods are hands-on and interactive. We like to involve you in the trip! These boats feature an open deck design for maximum fishing and casting room. Fitted with a jet pump instead of a propeller, these sleds can run in as little as 6″ of water! That means we can get you to the hardest to reach fishing spots.

  • Snohomish, Skykomish, Skagit or Cowlitz Fishing Trip

    $280 per angler + tax: 6-8hr River Fishing Trip, Seattle area or SW Washington Rivers

    3 Angler minimum, 5 to 6 Angler max, We Accept Parties, 5+ boats available, Dates vary. Please Inquire

    $280 per angler + tax: Bouy 10 and all Columbia River trips, Dates Varied, Please Inquire

    (March – November) 4 Angler minimum, 6 Angler max, We Accept Mixed Parties

Boat Details

River Trips | 16′ Drift Boats, 2-3 Anglers

This classic boat design was one of the first to float down our Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead rivers. Our drift boat trips offer a very cool, very private experience for 2 anglers. You can expect to float 8-16 miles of free-flowing river each day with your guide. All the while taking in our NW scenery and wildlife, and catching a fish too! We have as many as 5+ boats available to accommodate larger groups.

  • Olympic Peninsula, Skykomish, Skagit Salmon & Steelhead Fishing Trips

    $300 per angler + tax, or $600 + tax for a Private Boat for up to 2 Anglers.  Larger groups will utilized multiple boats.

    September-April – Please Inquire – 5+ Boats Available

Boat Details

Current Specials!

Book 6 anglers on any of our ARSC DEFIANCE BOATS and receive free fishing licenses!

Active Duty U.S. Military: We buy your fishing license for each day of fishing! Discount good for the individual only.

Book 3 *boats w/ one deposit and Party Leader receives their trip FREE. *ARSC DEFIANCE BOATS ONLY