Six-Hour Private Sportfishing Charter in Hollywood

First off, I was charged a 20% gratuity on my card before we ever left the dock. Gratuity is an amount that the consumer decides to leave based on the level of service they feel they received, not what you tell me I have to leave. That would be called a fee. Secondly, Joe and Ashley were nice, however their techniques never change throughout the day based on current conditions. We trolled skirted mullet strips on the Beach for kingfish along with every other charter boat in the area. After about 2 hours of no action other than 1 snake king, then they decided to try to move out deeper for dolphin. We pulled the exact same baits around some scattered weed which yielded 1 very small dolphin which actually even looked undersized. We spent over 2 more hours doing that. I suggested several times that I would like to go bottom fish over wrecks to at least put my guests on Beeliners (David had told me on the phone days before they had been doing good on these) but we never did this. I am an avid fisherman and I understand you can’t control the bite, however you can change up your approach based on current conditions. There was absolutely no adaptation from your crew to change things up to put us on fish. I have been on a lot of charters over the years as well as help current active charter captain friends of mine, and we NEVER come back empty handed. They may not be the species we set out for that day, but we ALWAYS have them reeling something in. I feel the crew was lazy and just did not feel like putting the work in on such a slow bite day. I came to you guys on a recommendation from a good friend of mine who is also in the fishing scene. Again not trying to beat you guys up but it was the most disappointing charter I have ever been on.

Felt cheated because I asked before we left, shortly after 12:30pm, if we could change the trip to 4 hours instead of 6. Captain David, who barely acknowledged us, said that we could but we would pay the same price. He also made sure to not tell us the boat would be running an hour late. Captain also called the day before and asked us to move our trip to the afternoon instead of morning because more fish were biting in the afternoon. When our boat finally came in, we talked to the guys getting off and they said they booked it last minute and could only do morning, so we had been lied to on order to get an extra booking. Our boat finally left the dock shortly before 2 (an hour late), and we were back by 6, which turned this into a four hour trip anyway. Dylan and Rod were awesome though. I will be posting this same review, plus more on TripAdvisor.

First of all I have been on several fishing charters in southern east coast of Florida. This trip was twice as much as I usually pay for 5 hrs of fishing. When I arrived the person who handled the final payment asked me( before the trip) of I wanted to put the gratuity on my credit card. I said absolutely not. He told me 20% was mandatory. I then was told by the captain that we had to by live bait” if we wanted to catch fish” Needless to say the only fish we caught was 1 12” Bonita!! Absolutely terrible. I will be contacting my credit card company. Please provide me with a social media that I can earn people not to book through you guys