I’ve been coming to the Keys for fishing charters for 3 years now and this was the best experience I’ve had.  The fishing was great but the biggest and most noticeable reason is how much Capt. Pete was interested in giving us a great experience.  I scheduled a half day and asked to reef and wreck fish for snapper etc.  I was planning to get the kids into a whole lot of tasty fish to make a low risk high reward day for them.  This also happens to be the lowest cost option for a ship’s captain.  Well Capt. Pete offered up that it was the best day in weeks for some deep water trolling and he thought if we were up for it we could go see what happens on a tuna run and then come back in for the snapper on the reef as Plan B.  Really!?!

It’s extremely rare that a Capt will offer to burn a bunch of fuel to get out there and then burn more fuel trolling around without being asked to do it.  And as it turned out, he really knew what he was about and got us into some great tuna in just a couple of hours and still had us back for some reef fishing too.  As you can see from the pic we caught got into multiple blackfin tuna per person and even picked up a Cero mackerel on a last minute troll heading back. 

I was really impressed with his communication regarding weather and everything else before, during, and after our charter.  Capt Pete runs his boat without deckhands, so be aware of that.  For me it was a positive.  He is high energy, positive guy who knows how to find fish and knows how to treat his customers.  I’ll book with him again next year for sure.