Our day was supposed to start at 6AM, but Wills called the night before and said the tides weren’t right and changed it to 10AM.  Day of, Wills calls and says all his bait had died and he needed time to get more, so he pushed it back to 10:30 and he changed the pick up location from Punta Gorda to Port Charlotte.  We still had to wait on him.  My husband booked this trip for early morning, due to my inability to regulate prolonged sun exposure.  This trip was a special family event, planned for me and my brother (April birthdays), to spend a day fishing with our father (88 years old), who has taken us fishing ever since we were old enough to hold rods.
Long story short, we arrived at all three spots at the end of the bite.  We did catch a few small snook and three keeper snapper, but would have done so much better had we been there earlier.  We spent most of the time traveling, from way up the Peace River, then all the way to El Jobean (Myakka River), which was the last stop before Wills received a phone call and had to leave.  He took us back to the dock and dropped us off, leaving us to filet the snapper.  He promised to make it up to us the next day, by taking us out for a couple of hours, as he said he didn’t deserve a tip and he felt bad about the whole experience.  My father and brother had travelled for the trip and couldn’t make the next day, so we told Wills that it’d just be me and my husband.  Again, we waited the next day and never heard from Wills and his phone number redirected us to Fishing Booker.  Super disappointing experience for four older, experienced fishermen; however, maybe an inexperienced angler wouldn’t have seen all the struggles.  Wills has great potential, but on this day he was just way too distracted.  I very rarely write a negative review, but this was a very rare and special family day that costs a lot of money and wasted a lot of time.  Wills has the personality and ability, so I really hope this was just a new captain mistake and that he is able to learn and succeed.