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Each fertilized halibut egg, or embryo, floats through the water and after about 10 to 20 days hatches into a larva.

Female wild Pacific halibut are usually 10 to 12 years old when they spawn and males are usually about eight when they reach sexual maturity.

Wild Pacific halibut spawn in deep water where females will lay between 500,000 to 4 million eggs depending on their size.

Captain Mike Bunker and Liz Johnson in one of Salmon Falls’ Riddle Marine fishing boats. There are also whales, porpoises, sea lions, and bald eagles to watch, and they’ve been putting on a show from the moment I got off the plane. The waters near Ketchikan are loaded with five different kinds of salmon, as well as halibut, lingcod, and more.

Either way, they have a good chance of catching something.

Guests can either hire a captain or try their luck in one of Salmon Falls’ self-guided boats. A big part of what to do here is right in the resort’s name: salmon. Johnson and her crew invited me up to Ketchikan to check out the Salmon Falls Resort and fish for a few days. Bunker distributes the rods, and Johnson can barely contain herself. We’ve used just about every one of the rods that line the roof of the boat’s cabin, save three lightweight spinning outfits that would look more at home on my local reservoir than the open water of Southeast Alaska.

But we’ve already boated our share of salmon and a halibut now we’re after something else. Around us, small charter boats dot the horizon-all without a doubt chasing cohos and kings. Liz Johnson, Jesse Liebrecht, and I peer over the rail and look out over the ocean. Captain Mike Bunker cuts the engine on our 27-foot Riddle Marine fishing boat and cranks up the music.