We had a great day in the bay catching a variety of fish with captain Brian !

I purchased this trip for my husband and his best friend for their birthdays. They grew up in shore fishing and are very experienced fishermen. I expressed this to captain Brain via fishing booker message.

This trip was extremely underwhelming to them. The captain only brought some frozen shrimp as bait. They stopped during their trip to get 12-13 additional bait fish. The equipment was very basic and many poles were not rigged/ready to go. There was little to no service provided. The many other guided trips they have been on provided excellent service/bait/equipment. Most of the day they trolled canals. They fished under 1 bridge. They were asked several times if they could help with poles/hooks/lowering and raising anchors etc. They never once went far enough or fast enough to get up on plain. They didn’t mind helping as Capt Brain as he is over 80 years old. Captain Brian was very nice to them but certainly didn’t provide a positive “fish guide experience”. Both our husbands felt it was the worst experience they have had with a paid guide.  We have asked for a refund but haven’t heard back.

While Captain Brian was a very nice guy, he is not a very good guide for experienced fisherman. The boat was in good shape, but had hooks on the ground and other various things laying around when we boarded. The fishing equipment was in really poor shape, the reel drags seemed like they were never maintained, few of the rods had eyes missing, and hooks were very cheap and I had to bend a few back after getting stuck on the bottom. He was also perfectly happy using dead shrimp even though he had a live well full of live ones.  Fishing wise he seemed very content catching very small fish which to his credit we did catch about a total of 7-8 fish, though none bigger than a pound. Again he was very nice guy and this would be a fine charter for very young kids that don’t know any better, but for other anglers I would look else where.