I don’t take any pleasure in providing a negative review here. Capt. Vinnie apparently had been out with other clients very early that morning tuna fishing and had been successful. I understand that being a fishing charter captain is a demanding job and can be frustrating.
First, the positives:
1. Capt. Vinnie did eventually find schools of bluefish and striped bass feeding on bunker (menhayden) in the bay - a very cool sight to see! We cast big poppers and hooked-up with many bluefish and a few stripers. That was a blast!
2. Capt. Vinnie didn’t charge us for the trip! All we paid was the $50 deposit and a $30 tip.

The negatives:
1. We (the two of us) arrived an hour early at the boat dock behind the Vetro Restaurant. We put our stuff on the dock and watched & waited up on the porch & patio of the restaurant to see if/when anyone else arrived. I put my cell phone on “airplane mode” because otherwise the battery dies quickly (it’s an old phone). After not seeing anyone at the dock for about 40 - 45 min. I turned my cell phone back on and called Fishing Booker, and they called Capt. Vinnie. He called me and was mad because he’d been calling me to see if we were at the dock. He apparently doesn’t come to the dock until he knows customers are there. He blamed me for not answering my cell phone. I think a captain should be at the dock and ready to go at the scheduled time, as we were.

We had to get fishing poles from across the canal and get gas at a marina before starting our trip, and that took about 40 min. I was surprised that Capt. Vinnie didn’t have any ice in the boat, so I bought a bag of ice at the marina. Capt. Vinnie offered us a choice: spend about 1.5 hrs. boating to the mouth of the Hudson River to fish for big stripers, or boat about 45 min. to fish for bluefish, stripers, and Bonita along the coast. We chose the coast & bluefish to save time & it seemed more likely to catch some fish - and Bonita
sounded cool! We searched for schools of feeding bluefish for about 1.5 hours but didn’t find any. He called other boats fishing the Hudson and told us they were catching big stripers; not a good message for us!

We came back into the Bay, and after being on the water for about 2.5 hours we finally found some schools of feeding bluefish and started fishing. The spinning reel he provided me was in very bad condition - I had to manually close the bail, for example. At one point I noticed one of the treble hooks on my lure had disappeared & I mentioned it, but Capt. Vinnie said it had always been missing (it hadn’t). He didn’t replace or fix the lure. After I landed some bliuefish I was surprised that Capt. Vinnie just ripped the hooks out of the fish’s jaw (gruesome) rather than taking the hooks out with pliers, and he didn’t keep any water in the live well - he just threw the fish in there without any water. Bluefish spoil quickly so it’s important to keep them alive or on ice.

At one point my line broke and I lost a lure. Capt. Vinnie told me I needed to check the line often (blamed me). But the line broke up above where he’d had a swivel for a leader; the swivel and leader were gone too - not my fault. He also became frustrated and blamed my brother-in-law for failing to land a couple of fish.
Capt. Vinnie ended the trip after about 5 hours, not 8 as advertised. He said he wouldn’t charge us for the trip, but wanted a positive review. That’s not right.

Trip was supposed to be in the morning didn’t go till afternoon.  The amenities that were described were not on the boat.  Just seemed like a unprepared disheveled trip

I want to start off by Saying I am a captain for Tahoe Sport Fishing in South Lake Tahoe. When booking this trip it says that they provide free transportation that is not true The captain had other guests text me asking me if I wanted to meet up with them so we could share a cab I also was not offered any drinks or snacks. The boat was very small that captain said he has 3 boats and brought the small one because there was only 3 of us fishing which might have been fine but the captain brought 2 other crew members that pretty much fished for us and took up all the room on the back deck going into the trip the captain new the weather would not be good but still brought the small boat to save money on gas say that we were going to fish in a smaller areas where a smaller boat is easier to maneuver witch would be fine but we were in the middle of the bay. We fished for probably no more then an hour total always driving to another spot. Eventually we needed to go get gas which probably should’ve been taken care of before the trip and not on my dollar but we went got gas which took probably about an hour total and our way back from getting gas We’re leaving the marina in the low oil alarm was going off on his motor he was trying to play it off that it was nothing but he had no extra oil onboard like I said before I am also a captain I have my own boats and I know what that is so I knew he was lying Then he said we were going to stop at another spot and drop some lines which never happened because once we left the marina the wind had picked up And without saying anything he went straight back to the marina me and one of the other guys had to sit on the front of the boat which once again was real small and got soaking wet also didn’t help that it was cold when we got back to the marina he said sorry there’s nothing I can do about the weather that’s fishing we are back the doc about 1030 or 11 So an eight hour trip turned into four hours and we probably only fish for an hour hour and a half he knew that I was leaving the next day still trying to offer me to go out with him the next day for free knowing and I couldn’t. Still had to pay the full amount. After paying him and been soaking wet me and the other guests had a call and Uber to get back to Manhattan between me and the other group we spent $150 on transportation which was not right . My reasoning for not getting back to you guys sooner was because I’m not one to write a bad review being I come from the same business. Each one of us caught a fish I think once that happened the captain was satisfied and figured he could throw in the towel which is not fair we paid our money for an eight hour trip and did not get even half of that!  I can try and give him the benefit of the doubt and say maybe it was just a bad day but I would not recommend this to anyone else which is hard for me to say!