Trip was short but the captain did get us on fish an our first mate did an excellent job helping us on deck making sure we caught fish.
Thank You Water Dog Charters !
A 10-12hr trip would have been better if we had more time.

Well, our first charter fishing trip as a family was not what we expected as we were not blessed with good weather. Captain and first mate did everything they could to make it an enjoyable trip, but the weather was not going to allow. Waters were so rough, we could not stay on our feet. Constantly being thrown from one side of the boat to the other.  We were in the middle of storms the entire trip. Soaking wet (head to toe) from the beginning. Couldn’t ever find a good spot where fish were consistently biting, but I think that was weather related. Wife got sick half way into the 4 hour trip. Me and one of my daughters were on the verge of getting sick, but thankfully never did. To cap off the trip (3 hours into the day), the unbelievable rough waters threw me (5’9”—175 lbs) across the inside cabin of the boat face-first into the window/window seal cutting the bridge of my nose to the bone and snapping my neck back. After this incident, the captain decided that was enough for the day and headed back in. Needless to say, the ride back in was very uncomfortable. Soaking wet and freezing, wife sick as a dog and I am laid out bleeding profusely from my nose with whiplash. HaHa! What a day!

Weather was completely out of our captain’s control and we do not blame him at all. I could tell our captain and his mate felt really bad our trip turned out the way it did, but that is part of it. He was nice enough to only charge us for a 4 hour trip (not the 6 hour trip that was planned) since we were only out 4 hours. And threw in Free T-Shirts for my 2 daughters that had to take care of a sea sick mother and a bleeding father. We really do appreciate that.

Our advice for families wanting to take an enjoyable charter fishing trip is to look at weather forecast before you pick a day. If the forecast states over a 30% chance of thunderstorms for the day, pick another day for your fishing trip. We plan to take another fishing trip next year, but the weather forecast will definitely determine which day we go out.

Very knowledgeable and personable crew! It was not the greatest day for weather but we never felt for one minute like we missed out on the overall experience. I will definitely book with them again.

Excellent fish trip