Western Pride – Summer Season
Western Pride – Summer Season
Book Western Pride for your next trip and enjoy having one of the top open-party sportfishing boats in Newport Beach! Captain Mike Harkins and his crew offer you a memorable time on California's beautiful waters full of many exciting species you can catch. This crew ranks high in the angling world thanks to the utmost dedication to its customers and all-inclusive service geared toward their needs. Capt. Mike Harkins and his team will do everything to make your stay on the water full of fun and excitement, so join them aboard and have a fishing trip of a lifetime!
You'll be fishing from a 75' Ditmar Donaldson offshore sport fishing boat. A boat of this size ensures plenty of space for fishing and relaxing for as many as 70 guests. It runs on twin 400 HP John Deere engines and is rigged with modern GPS and radio navigation electronics. The boat also comes with a toilet, air-conditioning, and other amenities that will add to your experience.
You and the crew will usually be fishing for Calico Bass, Rockfish, Halibut, Sheephead, Barracuda, California Yellowtail, and more, depending on the season. The techniques you can expect to use in order to catch fish are bottom fishing, big game fishing, trolling, spinning, and jigging on light and heavy tackle. You can keep the fish you catch and the crew will even fillet it for you at a cost.
Your trip will include unlimited bait. The crew doesn't include fishing gear in the price but you can rent it at the following rates: rods for $22 per person and tackle set-up for $18–$20 per person. The crew also offers gunny sacks ($2 each), and CA fishing licenses ($20.26). All this amounts to around $60 per person on top of the trip price.
Keep in mind that no coolers of any kind are allowed on board and neither is glass nor any alcohol. Aboard the vessel, you can only pay in cash but the company's office accepts credit, debit cards, and cash.
Hit the water with Western Pride and create memories that will stay with you forever!
Book Western Pride for your next trip and enjoy having one of the top open-party sportfishing boats in Newport Beach! Captain Mike Harkins and his crew offer you a memorable time on California's beautiful waters full of many exciting species you can catch. This crew ranks high in the angling world thanks to the utmost dedication to its customers and all-inclusive service geared toward their needs. Capt. Mike Harkins and his team will do everything to make your stay on the water full of fun and excitement, so join them aboard and have a fishing trip of a lifetime!
You'll be fishing from a 75' Ditmar Donaldson offshore sport fishing boat. A boat of this size ensures plenty of space for fishing and relaxing for as many as 70 guests. It runs on twin 400 HP John Deere engines and is rigged with modern GPS and radio navigation electronics. The boat also comes with a toilet, air-conditioning, and other amenities that will add to your experience.
You and the crew will usually be fishing for Calico Bass, Rockfish, Halibut, Sheephead, Barracuda, California Yellowtail, and more, depending on the season. The techniques you can expect to use in order to catch fish are bottom fishing, big game fishing, trolling, spinning, and jigging on light and heavy tackle. You can keep the fish you catch and the crew will even fillet it for you at a cost.
Your trip will include unlimited bait. The crew doesn't include fishing gear in the price but you can rent it at the following rates: rods for $22 per person and tackle set-up for $18–$20 per person. The crew also offers gunny sacks ($2 each), and CA fishing licenses ($20.26). All this amounts to around $60 per person on top of the trip price.
Keep in mind that no coolers of any kind are allowed on board and neither is glass nor any alcohol. Aboard the vessel, you can only pay in cash but the company's office accepts credit, debit cards, and cash.
Hit the water with Western Pride and create memories that will stay with you forever!
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Michael Coddington5.0VerifiedKids first fishing trip
1/2 Day Trip – Weekends on September 19, 2026 • 7 adults • 4 childrenThanks to the captain and crew of Western Pride! Took my kids and cousins out for the first time on a deep sea fishing trip! they all caught their own fish, crew was helpful, organized, amd friendly. Perfec trip for a kids first time, one of our kids even won the jackpot! thank you for memorable experience!
P Padilla4.7VerifiedFirst Time Going Out
1/2 Day Trip – Weekends - 12:30 PM on May 17, 2026 • 7 adultsGreat Knowledgeable crew. Assisted in everything with a fun positive attitude. Caught some fish and had a great time
Daryl M Mcleod5.0VerifiedThe fishing trip was an absolute blast!
1/2 Day Trip – Friday - 12:30 PM on June 27, 2025 • 2 adultsI took my son fishing and he caught a couple of nice sized sand bass and some decent sized mackerels. It was great for his first outing. He was smiling all the way home. It made my day! He and my wife are frying them up right now to serve with our breakfast.
Max Flores5.0VerifiedGreat experience
1/2 Day Trip – Friday on August 23, 2024 • 1 adultWas my first time out fishing in the ocean the crew was really nice and you can tell they been doing this for a long time very helpful from rigging up your pole to giving pointers on how to catch the fish best of all it wasn’t expensive to book met some cool people and caught 6 fish definitely would go again and recommend to others
Kyle JohnsonRepeat angler5.0VerifiedKiller time teaching the kids how to rockfish
1/2 Day Trip – Weekends on August 3, 2024 • 4 adults • 2 childrenEverything went super smooth from check-in all the way to when cleaned the fish at the end of the day. Everyone on the boat caught a good amount of sculpin and we even won the big fish jackpot on our first time going out on the Western Pride. Would highly recommend for a quick successful half day
ALEXEY BARMINRepeat angler4.0VerifiedOne-time experience for me 🤙🏿
1/2 Day (mon-Thurs) PM on August 7, 2025 • 5 adultsmaybe I don't understand how it should work.. we arrived at the address indicated in the application. It turned out that this was not the correct office address, and we had to walk another 5-7 minutes. We checked in. We left the pier at 12:30 PM. We came to one point where people started catching a lot of Rockfish, after 40 minutes the captain said that we were going to another point. We came there and there were almost no fish caught by people. Maybe the captain was looking at the echo sounder or not, I don't know. Then he again said that we were going to a new point, and this happened several times, but at the new points almost nothing was caught by people. So much time we spent to moving from point to point. We returned back at 5:30 PM, although it was written that the journey was 6 hours
Justin Bicknell5.0VerifiedFishing with Sterling
1/2 Day Trip – Weekends - 12:30 PM on July 5, 2025 • 2 adults
Brian Eck5.0VerifiedExperience
1/2 Day Trip – Weekends - 12:30 PM on June 29, 2024 • 2 adults • 1 childEverything from the booking to landing fish was a great experience. I do not have anything negative to say about any stages of the trip. Great crew on the boat.
Vincent GrazioseRepeat angler5.0VerifiedSeptember fishing trip
1/2 Day (mon-Thurs) AM on September 18, 2024 • 1 adult- Manuel Arana5.0Verified
July fishing trip
1/2 Day Trip – Friday on July 19, 2024 • 2 adults
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Thanks to the captain and crew of Western Pride! Took my kids and cousins out for the first time on a deep sea fishing trip! they all caught their own fish, crew was helpful, organized, amd friendly. Perfec trip for a kids first time, one of our kids even won the jackpot! thank you for memorable experience!
book this trip to celebrate my sons 7th birthday and mines..although we didnt catch anything..we sure did enjoy the nice breeze and the helpful staff that the ship has to offer..definitely booking again in the future and highly recommend it to any one👍
Took my dad and siblings and extended family to go deep-sea fishing it was all of our first time and it was dope! Did a half day bext time will definitely be a full day leading into 3 day trips lol
Hey Jerome!! Thanks for the great review. We had a great time with you and the family. We are so glad you had a great Father's Day. We'll see you out on the water real soon. Best Regards Western Pride Crew
My husband and I have never fished in salt water before and decided to give this a go. We caught lots of sculpin, and others onboard also caught rockfish and red snapper. The crew was great, despite the fact that they had a lot of newbies to babysit, lol! We'd love to go again!
Great Knowledgeable crew. Assisted in everything with a fun positive attitude. Caught some fish and had a great time
thanks fir the great review Phillip. we had a hreat time with the group. we hope to see you out again. best regards Westerners pride crew
FAQs about Western Pride – Summer Season
- US $79 per person - 1/2 Day (mon-Thurs) AM (6 hours)
- US $79 per person - 1/2 Day (mon-Thurs) PM (6 hours)
- US $89 per person - 1/2 Day Trip – Friday (6 hours)
- US $89 per person - 1/2 Day Trip – Friday - 12:30 PM (6 hours)
- US $89 per person - 1/2 Day Trip – Weekends (6 hours)
- US $89 per person - 1/2 Day Trip – Weekends - 12:30 PM (6 hours)
- Toilet
- GPS
- Live bait well
- Kitchen Galley use only
- Refrigerator Crew use only
- Radar
- Live bait
- First mate
- Offshore fishing
- Flats fishing
- Light tackle
- Heavy tackle
- Bottom fishing
- Trolling
- Spinning
- Jigging
- Deep sea fishing
- Barracuda (Pacific)
- Bonito
- Calico Bass
- California Sheephead
- Halibut (California)
- Rockfish
- Sculpin
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