Full-Day Fishing Charter in Clearwater

Excellent trip, staff was excellent particularly a Larry the first mate he was very responsive every time I caught the bottom. Only advice for the future sell Sam Adams beer on board and make the fish stay on the hook more....

I took my son on this trip to celebrate his 9th birthday. He had an amazing time and Alex made it all the better! He shared his experiences and expertise on fishing with my boy and helped him successfully catch over a dozen fish! It was truly an amazing day!

Only caught a piece of coral due to a lack of sacrifices to the fishing gods, but still had a great time. Larry and the crew are awesome 10/10 would catch coral again.

Larry went above and beyond to make sure we were taken care of, will definitely be back when I’m in Florida again!

Had a great time. Staff was great.

the last 2 times we went deep sea with Queen Fleet and we got very fews fish it not even fun at all

The deck hand smoked a whole pack of cigarettes while doing his job. I know that there are no rules against smoking on the boat but I believe that if he is working that he should be doing his job and not worrying about lighting up another one. He also seemed to be annoyed or something’s. He was not very helpful when it came to putting the fish that we caught on our strings. I had to go put our fish on the string in the ice box while he was walking around slow and not doing his job. I’ve been on this charter plenty of times and never had a bad experience. Also my wife hooked up to a very large gag grouper, which was bigger then my 26” gag, and the folks next to us called and called and called Tim over to gaff the grouper but when Tim finally showed up he did not bring the gaff nor did he look over the side of the boat to see the fish. I was on the stern of the boat in the corner (starboard side and my wife was next to me and to her right was the bench. He could not have seen the fish unless he had gotten over the bench. Tim went for the gaff and told me that the gag was to small and that he didn’t want to gaff it. He then proceeded to tell me to pull it up by the line... which I believe should be his job as he is working and is the deck hand. As I did Tim’s job for him the fish had swam around 3 lines and it had unhooked the fish when I pulled up on the line. My wife was was very upset about this. The folks next to us told Tim that the gag was easily to 30”+ and that he should have gaffed it. Tim then said that “well we don’t even know if it was keeper size and I do this everyday and I know that it was not a keeper.” How could he say that we don’t know if it was keeper size and then say that he does it everyday and knows that it was not a keeper. I am beyond baffled to that response. He also cut my wife’s leader with a knife, yes the fish was poisonous, but he didn’t bring her a new leader for her fishing pole or even explain what he was doing. She waited about 5 minutes for him to come back, only to realize he was just cleaning up the buckets and deck (2pm is way to early to start cleaning up when we have paid to be there until5pm) I had to stop fishing to go get a leader for her and tie it up so that she could continue to fish. After all, that is what we go on your boat for. The great crew that we normally have helping us was on the half day boat that day. We were not the only ones who experienced such trouble with him that day. He almost caused my wife and another fisher to lose the Bonita that each of them hooked up to with his carelessness and lack of attention as well. We caught a lot of red grunt —frenchies are what he kept calling them—(which we actually love to eat) he kept saying “these aren’t good eating” then throwing them back in the water. After the first few times, we were getting pretty upset and finally we said, can you stop throwing them back, we want to keep them. So instead of throw them back, he just refused to put them on the string. He just left them in the bucket roasting. When I tried to put them on the string myself he said we werent allowed to touch the strings. Then my buddy tried to use one as bait and he said no and told her to throw it back in the water. So we can’t keep grunts, we can’t string them ourselves and we can’t use them as bait?? (even though red grunts are great bait for tarpon fishing and other species.) I am a loyal customer that has been fishing with you guys since I was 12years old and now I’m 26years old. We go fishing 2times a year minimum and up to 4times a year. We recommend your charter very frequently and even have friends come with us quite often. But this trip had us considering booking with another charter in the future.