Not sure if there is an actual Capt Andy Hook who has a boat in Venice, LA.
Booked with this guy only to have a completely different Capt/boat show up without being told who he was until on the boat. No Mate, started and hour later, no bait, no rigs that were promised for bottom fishing, electronics didn’t work, faulty equiptment, rusty equiptment, just wild. Weird part was, I could of booked with this capt cheaper than this supposed Andy guy. Caught in a wicked storm for about an hour and a half under an oil rig while other boats in the area bailed when they sae the storm coming, had to catch our own bait which took hours. The only saving grace, (by what I believe was shear luck) this capt had one squid rig he dropped “for bottom fishing” and at 3:38pm we latched onto and brought in a 200lb swordfish on a pole that snapped an hour in on a 3hr fight with the capt hanging over the side of the boat hand lining a half crank at a time. it was an incredible feat that has an unbelievable lifetime story that goes along with it, but we came for tuna, other boats caught quite a bit of tuna and whatever else that day. Had it not been for that swordfish, a mutiny was abroad. The tensity between the capt and us 5 was almost to a boiling point because of how un prepared he was and doing what we paid for. it was almost like he knew he was going to fish for 1 swordfish from the start of the day. (considering he only had 1 rig set up with a squid on it)
I did learn a valuable lesson about Venice tho…. Ask more question leading to the day, inspect everything on the boat before you leave the dock, and get the actual captains name before you leave the dock.