Welcome and thank you for your interest in ACE Fishing Adventures. My family Shawna, Tait, Evelyn, Clayton, our Scottie Dogs Winston and Gilly and I, Aaron Cooper, would like to welcome you to Aaron Cooper's Extreme Fishing Adventures LLC. Together we have set out to provide the best available fishing charter business on the Kenai, and Kasilof Rivers. From the start we have strived to make a business that caters our fishing charters and packages to suit your needs. We know that each family and vacation is different and by not having a set schedule we are able to help custom build the exact Alaska fishing experience that you will be sure to enjoy. We have done business this way so that we are able to help you plan a vacation to suit your needs and not our own. We strive to make every day you spend on the water with us or on the peninsula with someone of our recommendation the very best possible. It is not cheap to go on vacation and especially to Alaska in the summer. For this reason we will not and have not endorsed or set anyone up with a business that we wouldn't put our own family with. It is because of this you can be guaranteed that everything we do will be custom tailored to only your desires.
I grew up in the southeast corner of Idaho; hunting, fishing, skiing, and everything else that I could while being in the outdoors. While attending college at the University of Idaho, Idaho State University, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas, every chance that I had between studying was spent in the filed. I also worked in the fly shop and guided for Montana River Outfitters on the Missouri River fly fishing for it's famous rising trout. Fly fishing has always been one of my true passions, and fly fishing for rising trout especially, but not quite as much of a passion as is fishing for Salmon and Steelhead. After college I spent a winter in New Zealand traveling the country and fishing at every opportunity I had. Upon my return it just so happened to coincide with the start of Steelhead season in Idaho, upon which I took time and made sure I hit every hole along the greater Salmon and Clearwater watersheds. Without having my fill of fishing for the andronomous species I decided to find a job in Alaska, another state that I have fished on occasion before and could not wait to get back to once again. I applied at one of the finest and largest lodges on the Kenai River and within the month I found myself driving the Alaskan highway with Shawna, whom I had met years earlier while attending Idaho State University. It was here at this lodge that I was introduced with the river that I am so found of today, the Kenai. I was trained by some of the most experience and finest fisherman on the water, and like to think that I also have brought with me some new tricks to fool these ever elusive and huge salmon that thrive in the Kenai River system. You may have even seen me during this time as I appeared on an episode of Let's Go Fishing! It was also during this time period that I attended AVTEC in Seward Alaska, one of the finest marine training facilities in the US. I studied for a spring semester in order to attain my US Coast Guard Master of Motor Vessels, or for short my USCG Captain's license. As well I also hold a current and yearly First Aid, CPR, and infant CPR card, along with all of the other mandatory licensing requirements for local, state, and federal entities.
After a couple of years at the lodge and with the influence of many of my past clients and friends I decided to take the leap and go into the industry for myself. It was at that moment that ACE Fishing Adventures was conceived. Since that time I begin our season each year in May and run well into the winter months and the new year on many of the Kenai Peninsula river systems, where we target salmon, steelhead, and trout. I have also in the past worked for an operation out in the Illiamna region chasing King Salmon on the famous Nushagak River. Today I solely run my business full time here in beautiful Kenai, Alaska. It truly has been a dream come true, I love the feeling of watching a new friends face while hooking into a salmon for their first or fiftieth time. I have always believed that you get what you pay for, and along with my guide service my equipment is nothing but the finest the industry has to offer. I only use the best quality equipment on the market today, even if that means paying the extra buck for it, but in the long run you and I will both be happier that it is equipment on board.
I appreciate you taking the time to learn a little more about my family, myself and my operation and I thank you again for your interest in ACE Fishing Adventures. I look forward to the possibility of helping you plan your dream fishing vacation to Alaska. Keep those fish jumping where ever you may be and we will see you in the boat this summer.
Aaron Cooper
Owner/Guide
Aaron Cooper Extreme Fishing Adventures, LLC.
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