Your journey starts on a 27’ Cobia center console that can take up to 6 guests. It runs on a 225 HP engine with a maximum cruising speed of 35 knots, uses modern GPS, fishfinder, and radio navigation technology, and is equipped with outriggers and a livewell. There is even an onboard shower you can use.

If you choose to explore the backcountry and flats, you’ll be fishing for Snook and Redfish. Head further out to bottom fish for a variety of Snapper, Amberjack, and Grouper, or troll for Kingfish.

You’ll be riding out into the Florida sun on a 2022, 30’ Sea Hunt Gamefish center console with room for up to 6 passengers. Onboard the boat you’ll find an up-to-date Garmin fish finder with twin screens, a chart plotter, radar equipment, 3 live bait wells, and iceboxes to keep your beverages chilled. There’s also a flushable private toilet on board.

I’ve been fishing the bay, flats, and beaches of Tampa and St. Pete my whole life, but started doing licensed charters last year to help pay my way through pilot school.