Would highly recommend Great Escapes. Will and George are excellent! Brought us to the spots, knew the depths to be and we quickly limited out on Red Snapper. Went on to catch Spanish Mackerel and King Fish. Plenty of room for our group of 4 (Would venture to say larger groups would find the same). Only recommendation I’d have for having a better trip has nothing to do with Great Escapes, but our decision not to take motion sickness medicine. If you don’t know how you’ll fair, I’d recommend taking before you go. Still great trip! Great fishing! And great guys!! Thanks again

We booked a 4 hour charter with captain Will and his first mate George. They kept us on the fish as we were trolling. Ended up filling a cooler with several Spanish Mackerels and three pretty good sized King Mackerels. The Kings fought but those Spanish Mackerels all but swam to the boat with the exception of a couple of em. All in all, great first trip out with these guys.

My family enjoyed it with the exception of my 12 year old daughter. She’s just not into fishing for some reason. The boat has a couch that she pretty much stayed on the whole time. It was fine. She put her headphones on and just jammed her tunes while her mom and 10 year old brother enjoyed the trip out on the water.

We ran 3 lines out behind the boat. 2 we’re essentially the same setup with a 3rd bigger jig running out further behind the boat. It didn’t even budge. Fish just didn’t like it for some reason. The other 2 jigs lost their color they got hit so much!

Given our inexperience, we really didn’t know what to expect.  We did a six-hour trip. There was Capitan Will Owens, who appeared to have extensive experience.  He stayed in the Tower to drive the boat, locate the fishing spots, watch for dolphin activity while over the fishing locations, and direct George, the First Mate, when things got really busy fishing. He was excellent in finding the red snapper by use of his GPS and fish finder.  When the dolphins would show up, he would evaluate when to exit that location for the next one.  FYI, the dolphins would take hooked fish and cause the fish in the water to compress down to the artificial reef and focus on survival instead of eating.  George (First Mate) also did a great job.  He would be very busy when the fish were biting, and things could get chaotic.  Sometimes, we would hook a fish within a minute of dropping the lines.  Likely, we caught 30-plus fish and were able to keep 9 of them (they have to be over 16” in length).  On our way back to shore, the A/C went out.  They were very diligent in working to repair it within 15 minutes.

Captain and deck hand were great, Captain put us on the fish and we caught the max allowed of vermillion snapper and the deck hand was right there taking care of us. They are very personable and engaging, we had a fabulous trip and would definitely recommend them!