Captain
Juan Carlos Torruella

Member since October 2023 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Background
Capt. Juan Carlos runs fishing trips out of San Juan aboard a 26’ TwinVee Catamaran EL FLAKO. These waters are known for great bluewater fishing for marlin, sailfish, tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi. Off the reefs kingfish, blackfin tuna and snappers are targeted. Inshore tarpon are caught year round in our backcountry waters. Capt. Juan will show you how to catch them, whether you're trolling, live baiting or jigging. With extensive knowledge of the area, he has a trick or two up his sleeve, and the only way to learn is to join him out on the water! Capt. Juan was voted by Salt Water Sportsman magazine as one top 50 charter captains in the world in 2013. He has over 40 years of experience fishing these waters!
Techniques
Trolling for big game offshore. Live baiting off the reefs. Vertical jigging for kingfish and tuna. Live and dead baiting for tarpon inshore. Fishing artificial lures for tarpon. Fly fishing for tarpon.

Hey, I'm Captain Juan Carlos Torruella

San Juan, Puerto Rico
Background
Capt. Juan Carlos runs fishing trips out of San Juan aboard a 26’ TwinVee Catamaran EL FLAKO. These waters are known for great bluewater fishing for marlin, sailfish, tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi. Off the reefs kingfish, blackfin tuna and snappers are targeted. Inshore tarpon are caught year round in our backcountry waters. Capt. Juan will show you how to catch them, whether you're trolling, live baiting or jigging. With extensive knowledge of the area, he has a trick or two up his sleeve, and the only way to learn is to join him out on the water! Capt. Juan was voted by Salt Water Sportsman magazine as one top 50 charter captains in the world in 2013. He has over 40 years of experience fishing these waters!
Techniques
Trolling for big game offshore. Live baiting off the reefs. Vertical jigging for kingfish and tuna. Live and dead baiting for tarpon inshore. Fishing artificial lures for tarpon. Fly fishing for tarpon.
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Excellent
4.9 / 5
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Excellent
4.9 / 5
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Excellent
4.9 / 5
Experience
Excellent
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Good experience
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Friendly captain
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Recommend this charter
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Appropriate for children
88%
Satisfied with the boat
98%
Caught fish
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Wayne B.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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5.0 / 5
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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Awesome experience with the family.

VERIFIED   4 Hour Trip โ€“ Reef Fishing (AM) on July 6, 2025
Great trip, everyone caught fish and had fun. Captain knew the spots to go to catch fish for sure.
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Michael S.
Excellent
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Good Times

VERIFIED   4 Hour Trip โ€“ Reef Fishing (AM) on June 12, 2025
The weather was bad, but Juan still got me on some fish! I had a great time!!
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SCOTT M.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Off shore fishing

VERIFIED   4 Hour Trip โ€“ Tarpon (AM) on March 11, 2025
What a great day again , we really lucked out on the weather as we hd booked 3 days of fishing with Captain Jain Caught...
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Billie J. M.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Fish On!

VERIFIED   4 Hour Trip โ€“ Reef Fishing (AM) on January 23, 2025
Juan was a great captain. This was my first time ocean fishing, we fished the reef. He showed us and guided us. We caught 2...
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Jeremy E.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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We caught the mahi

VERIFIED   4 Hour Trip โ€“ Deep Sea Fishing (AM) on October 2, 2025
captail was awsome super profesional made it w fun experience
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