My wife and I went out with Don on our honeymoon and it was an absolute blast. Don and Chris went above and beyond to make it an awesome experience and it sure was. Don was our captain and he’s a fantastic guy. Salt of the earth dude and extremely knowledgeable. Sounds like Chris is the same way! We caught salmon, crabs and we saw wildlife we were hoping to see on our trip. Seals, humpback whales, bald eagle, and at the end of the night we saw a Sitka black tail buck at the point. Super cool.... More

Richard was our captain and guide.  He is an extremely knowledgeable fellow who has grown up on the waters around Sooke and knows the habits of fish very well.  The day was glorious fairly warm as we started out with an hazy orange sunrise.  Herds of deer on the early morning streets.  Three seals on the docks as we approached the Rising Tide.  Fishing was light.  We had a very nice wild coho that we had to turn back, but got a very nice medium size Chinook.  We lost one other nice one... More

My Dad, Mom, little sister and I did a 4 day trip to sooke, we had planed to go fishing two weeks in advance where our capitalina cancelled on us a couple hours before departure. I reached out to Chris and he responded within minutes that he would be happy to help us get out in the water before we left, and about two hours later we were on a beautiful boat on the ocean. Chris and his wife were very kind and friendly to all of us, and we had the best time we could’ve asked for, unfortunately... More

I booked with the Rising Tide Coastal Adventures to take my father for his birthday. We had a good tide and trip went amazing with 2 massive salmons and 1 rockfish to take home. Don knows local waters well and took us to all the good spots for a big catch. My father had the most wonderful time in his fishing career when landing his 16lbs salmon. The channel is bustling with life of seabirds like murrelets, guillemots, and animals like seals, and otters for bird/wildlife watchers too. I enjoyed... More

My girlfriend and I had such an amazing experience on this evening trip! it was both of our first times saltwater fishing and Don was extremely knowledgeable and kept us conversing, entertained, and engaged the whole time. We hit fish almost immediately and had the best time on the water, it was a beautiful calm evening as well. Insanely gorgeous with the setting sun over the water. We will 100% be recommending this charter to everyone we know and strongly urge whoever is reading this review to... More