Charter Captain / Fishing Guide
Whaler's Cove Lodge
Angoon, Alaska
Fish On! Guide in one of Alaska's most productive/beautiful fisheries June thru mid September in AK!
Angoon, Alaska
Fish On! Guide in one of Alaska's most productive/beautiful fisheries June thru mid September in AK!
Angoon, Alaska
Front of House Lead for a wilderness fishing lodge located in Tongass National Forest, Alaska
Angoon, Alaska
Head Chef/Cook for Authentic Historic Remote Fishing Lodge in Southeast Alaska
Currently recruiting for the season that runs from May 15th, 2025 to September 20th, 2025.
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is entering into its 43rd Season of hosting Sport Fishing and Wilderness Adventures. Housekeepers are responsible for assuring the highest degree of room quality guest care is maintained at all times. Housekeepers work under the supervision of the Housekeeping Manager.
This is a unique housekeeping environment: all guest accommodations are in cabins spread out over 4 acres. The housekeeping team will be working in all types of weather, including inclement weather such as walking between cabins in the rain, taking shoes on/off all throughout the day. The team will wear radios for efficient communication and will follow the guidance of the Housekeeping Manager for work efficiency.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Requirements
Material and Equipment Used
Compensation
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is a permit holder in the Tongass National Forest and Admiralty Island National Monument. All rules and regulations are expected to be followed.
Email Cover Letter / Letter of Interest and Resume to: wclapplicant@gmail.com
907-723-7057 Business Line
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fishing and adventure guiding which will include:
Meeting and greeting guests on their arrival morning and getting them outfitted for their adventures.
Salt water vessel operations (up to 6 guests) including fishing for salmon, halibut, gray cod, ling cod, black cod (sablefish) and 30 species of rock fish. Demonstrable knowledge of small vessel operation (Diesel Inboard and single & twin Gas Outboard up to 35’ in length), including close quarter handling, anchoring (shore and deep water) and maintenance/cleaning (even the head) is required.
Fresh water vessels and occasional fly out operations (up to 6 guests) including salt water boat transfers to intertidal salt/fresh water fishing opportunities. Use of kayaks, canoes and inflatable whitewater rafts, outboard powered (prop and jet) boats and skiffs. Safe use of firearms and a professional knowledge of both spin cast and fly-fishing techniques is required.
Wildlife viewing and photography excursions (up to 6 guests) which may include Alaskan brown bears, eagles, humpback and killer whales, and other local wildlife are often requested by guests. A naturalist working knowledge of coastal mammals, birds and fish is preferred and an eagerness to learn is essential.
All types of guiding require that the guides actively clean and maintain all gear provided to guide and guests. This includes, but is not limited to rods, reels, terminal tackle, foul weather gear (bibs, jackets, boots), fresh water gear (waders & boots),
Job Requirements:
Required Experience:
Alaskan guiding experience is preferred with a sound working knowledge of vessels (both salt and fresh water), minor mechanical maintenance, vessel and guest safety equipment maintenance, vessel electronics (GPS, fish-finder, VHF, Radar), firearm familiarity and safety, fishing, fishing terminal tackle, angling methods, techniques and skills. Salt water fishing (salmon and bottom fishing), fresh water fly fishing or spin fishing knowledge is required.
We require the following minimum experience:
WCL provides:
If you would like to join our team, please send in your Cover Letter/Letter of Interest and Resume to: WCLapplicant@gmail.com
We are looking for Sous Chefs and Prep Cooks who:
If you would like to join our team, please send in your Cover Letter/Letter of Interest and Resume to: WCLapplicant@gmail.com
Although this is seasonal employment; we prefer a multi-season commitment.
Qualifications to Include:
The primary responsibilities of the Front of House (FOH) team are to provide our guests with a clean, relaxing, and satiating dining experience and to provide genuine warmth and hospitality while maintaining a professional decorum. The FOH Lead exemplifies professional communication, timing of service, courtesy, and authentic enthusiasm for the hospitality profession.
Whaler’s Cove Lodge FOH team incorporates multiple FOH duties in their daily routine including: being a liaison between the guests and kitchen; host/hostess; wait staff with assigned zones and tables to cover; food expediter; and busser. Due to the remote location of the lodge, all restaurant staff (BOH & FOH) are required to rotate dish duty.
Main Duties:
Unique Duties:
Requirements
Preferred
Compensation
Email Cover Letter / Letter of Interest and Resume to: wclapplicant@gmail.com
907-723-7057 Business Line
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The primary responsibilities of the Front of House (FOH) team are to provide our guests with a clean, relaxing, and satiating dining experience and to provide genuine warmth and hospitality while maintaining a professional decorum.
Whaler’s Cove Lodge FOH team incorporates multiple FOH duties in their daily routine including: being a liaison between the guests and kitchen; host/hostess; wait staff with assigned zones and tables to cover; food expediter; and busser. Due to the remote location of the lodge, all restaurant staff (BOH & FOH) are required to rotate dish duty.
Main Duties:
Unique Duties:
Requirements
Preferred
Compensation
Email Cover Letter / Letter of Interest and Resume to: wclapplicant@gmail.com
907-723-7057 Business Line
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Duties
In addition to assisting guides to dock and unload guest fish, you’ll be filleting fish. You’ll be cleaning and trimming the carcasses to prepare them for the rest of the processing operation. You will be responsible for checking the fish for any defects or abnormalities, tracking the fillets for each guest, following our processing procedures to ensure each guest receives the fish that they caught, putting the carcasses into the gut buckets and labeling goods. You’ll be responsible for vacuum packaging, flash freezing, loading, sealing, and banding waxed fish boxes. You’ll be responsible for loading final fish boxes onto the freight vessel. You’ll be working with a variety of hand tools including knives, banding machine, box stapler, and vacuum packagers. You will use the knives and also sharpen them and maintain other pieces of equipment. You will be responsible for excellent customer service and guest and crew safety.
Technique
Filleting technique depends on whether you're filleting a flat fish or a round fish. To fillet a flat fish, you cut off its head, tail and fins, cut it down the center and cut the flesh off of the bone. This process is repeated three times, until the three fillets have been separated from one another. Filleting a round fish involves slicing around one side of the fish’s head, slicing the fish from head to tail and cutting the fillet away from the body. The filleter then turns the fish over to repeat the process, this time starting from the tail end and working upwards. The fillets are then trimmed, meaning the fins at the bottom are removed. We process an average of 250,000 - 300,000 lbs. of fish!
Work Conditions
Our fish filleters work on our fish processing dock. You will spend most of your day standing up and are likely to have to spend extended periods of time working in the rain and in the cold. Our freezers are below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. A fish filleter is also required to do heavy lifting as part of his job. Each of our packed and wrapped fish boxes weighs 50 pounds. Work days are 8-11 hours, with most shifts beginning at 3:30pm. Some shifts begin at 2am. Schedules vary for each team member.
Requirements
Must be 18 years of age or older.
High School Graduate or GED.
At least one season of fillet experience.
At least one season of processing experience (vacuum packaging, flash freezing).
Hours vary throughout the day depending upon quantity of fish processed.
Compensation
Salary commensurate with experience.
Tips are pooled.
Room and board are negotiable.
Travel benefit can be earned.
Submit Cover Letter and Application to wclapplicant@gmail.com
To create a positive guest experience from first point of contact, through the reservation process, travel, arrival & welcoming, friendly departures, daily activities, processed fish shipments, and gift shop sales for up to 32 Guests per day, for an approximate 71 day operating season with guests, with up to 21 days pre-guests and 14 days post guests. The lodge is located in Southeast Alaska, on Killisnoo Island, just off of Admiralty Island National Monument, near the City of Angoon. This is a remote wilderness lodge specializing in salt & freshwater fishing and ecotourism.
Responsibilities
Skills Required
Qualifications
Dates of Employment
Crew must be available for the entire season. Guest Services crew will fly to Alaska approximately mid-June and training begins onsite immediately with work through approximately September 18th. We have an approximate 15 week operating season/71 of those days are concurrent with guests. Flights home are to be schedule September 16th through September 20th, depending upon individual offers.
Considerations
Professionalism ~ We require our Guest Services team to present themselves in a professional manner at all times. We always have guests at the lodge (from June into September) with turnover days twice a week. A “turnover day” is when guests come in/go out. Guests do not check in and out at their leisure; they are brought in/out on scheduled transportation. Because of our remote location, it is very difficult to replace any of our crew. We expect a commitment to stay the entire season or agreed upon length of contract. It is important that our applicants understand the operation and what responsibilities will be required of them.
Attitude ~ Our Guest Services crew have a position with very high guest exposure. It is important that our personnel enjoy people and enjoy showing the guests a good time. We are looking for individuals who want to share the joy of hospitality. We require our team to have a positive attitude, show extraordinary manners, and be courteous at all times.
Safety & Medical ~ Our guides are our eyes and ears on the water. Guides are expected to keep tabs on other vessels from the lodge, including self-guided boats. At times our guides act as radio relay stations if a boat is trying to contact the lodge and is out of VHF range. Guided vessels are required to aid vessels in emergency situations where life or property is in danger. Guest Service crew monitor the VHF radios 24/7 (in shifts) and are required to assist with any communications necessary. Operating in the Alaskan environment is inherently dangerous and all of our employees are required to be aware and responsive to any potentially dangerous situation that may arise.
If a situation arises that requires medical attention, crew is to contact the lodge immediately and render any assistance possible. The community of Angoon has a medical clinic with emergency staff available; response time may be delayed. Regional scheduled sea plane service or charters may be available to transport patients to adequate medical care facilities in Juneau or Sitka (this is a minimum 40 minute transport, 90 minutes from time of call to arrival back to emergency services). In addition the U.S.C.G. Air Station in Sitka has the capability to medevac serious injuries. In any case, the lodge management is to be contacted immediately to do their best to ensure a coordinated and timely response.
Guest Services crew must be healthy, physically fit, maintain a clean and modest appearance, be drug-free (pre-employment drug testing and random seasonal drug testing is company policy at company discretion), and be a non-smoker. Anyone who cannot maintain themselves in a professional manner regarding alcohol consumption need not apply.
Company Policy ~ Employees of Whaler’s Cove Lodge are to abide by the most current version of the Employee Handbook (provided at time of hiring). The duties and policies described in this job description are in addition to, and an integral part of, the employee policies set forth in the Employee Handbook.
Guest Services Meetings ~ Whaler’s Cove Lodge facilitates training meetings and periodic Guest Service meetings. All Guest Service crew are required to attend these meetings.
Compensation
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is a permit holder in the Tongass National Forest and Admiralty Island National Monument. All rules and regulations are expected to be followed.
Email Cover Letter / Letter of Interest and Resume to: wclapplicant@gmail.com
907-723-7057 Business Line
Whaler’s Cove Lodge is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Chef, Chef, Chef!
WCL offers an 8 day menu rotation, organized logistics and provisioning, a healthy food budget, and a well-appointed remote facility.
The culinary team takes care of all guests (32 at 100% occupancy) and all crew (~30) for an estimated <14,000 meals each operating season. Crew are on-site for approximately 110 days and guests are on-site for 68-72 days.
Breakfast is plated, lunch is self-serve buffet for guests and a hot buffet for crew, dinner is plated.
Our chefs need to be adept at preparing and serving meats & seafoods (wild game, wild Alaskan fish). As a former WCL chef said – Alaska is “produce purgatory”. Due to our remote location, fresh, tender vegetables are a challenge.
We are looking for a good coach with an all-hands-on-deck attitude, excellent timing of service, and a taste profile that will keep everyone dreaming for the next meal.
Everyone on our culinary team cleans. Due to our remote nature, we do not have the luxury of hiring an outside service to handle waste management or major degreasing; it’s integral that our entire team maintains the prep and cooking areas throughout each service and the entire operating season.
Healthy salary commensurate with professional experience.
If you are interested, send your resume and letter of interest to: WCLapplicant@gmail.com
Although this is seasonal employment; we prefer a multi-season commitment.
Qualifications to Include:
Your application will only be considered with a complete submission of your Cover Letter/Letter of Interest and Resume. Please take the time to let us know within your cover letter why specifically you would like to join the Whaler's Cove Lodge team. Thank you.
We are NOT set up to accept H2B or J1 visas.
Applicants must email their resume and cover letter to wclapplicant@gmail.com. We would appreciate it if you took the time to detail within your cover letter, why you are specifically interested in working with Whaler's Cove Lodge.
Captain and guide applicants need to provide Merchant Mariner documents (OUPV 6 Pack, with Near Coastal endorsement) at the time of application in order to be considered.
If a couple applies, each applicant will be considered based upon their own merits. We do not discriminately hire based upon relationship; applicants must bring their professional skills to the table to contribute to the team and the guest experience.
Only applicants who submit a resume and cover letter explaining how they are resilient will be reviewed. Interviews begin pending available positions and qualified candidates. Please go to our website for full job descriptions, professional requirements, and company requirements.
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