Captain
Bruce Aldridge

Member since April 2016 Port St. Joe, United States
Background
Bruce's Professional Guide Service is owned and operated by Captain Bruce Aldridge. He has been guiding fishing trips for the past 30 years and fished professionally for 10 years. The captain has been fishing in Alabama and Florida for years and started angling when he was 17. To him, fishing is more of a lifestyle than a sport. He considers himself to be blessed for being able to do what he loves and his favorite thing about the job is putting people on fish.
Techniques
The captain loves to sight fish both inshore and offshore using spinning tackle. He enjoys bottom fishing with light tackle offshore as well.

Hey, I'm Captain Bruce Aldridge

Port St. Joe, United States
Background
Bruce's Professional Guide Service is owned and operated by Captain Bruce Aldridge. He has been guiding fishing trips for the past 30 years and fished professionally for 10 years. The captain has been fishing in Alabama and Florida for years and started angling when he was 17. To him, fishing is more of a lifestyle than a sport. He considers himself to be blessed for being able to do what he loves and his favorite thing about the job is putting people on fish.
Techniques
The captain loves to sight fish both inshore and offshore using spinning tackle. He enjoys bottom fishing with light tackle offshore as well.
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Bruce's Professional Guide Service

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Port St. Joe
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Fishing Reports

Windy May fishing
Windy May fishing
May 15, 2021 Port St. Joe
Fishing here on the forgotten coast has started to heat up. We have alot of windy days to deal with but fishing has been good when the conditions allow. We have all had to cancel trips due to unsafe windy conditions all the local captains always put safety first. The fishing is shaping up to be great this summer. Tight lines
Offshore 6/16/20
Offshore 6/16/20
Jun 16, 2020 Port St. Joe
Fished offshore this morning rough conditions fish were biting. Limit of snapper and a 34” gag grouper.
Tripletail
Tripletail
Jun 15, 2020 Port St. Joe
Great afternoon Tripletail trip. Caught 6 nice keepers 8-15lb lots of short fish.
Big bite week!
Big bite week!
Aug 5, 2019 Port St. Joe
We had a great week fishing this week! Big Kings and Spanish jumbo whitetrout. Black snapper and big Cobia offshore. 40lb king on a 6’6 trout rod! Caught a few Tripletail 10-14lb. Thanks to all my clients for the pleasure.
Awesome Inshore
Awesome Inshore
May 2, 2019 Port St. Joe
April was a great month here the Tripletail have shown up in good numbers the pompano fishing has been good the trout are starting to show and should be on fire in May. Offshore the big kings moved in early! We checked our offshore spots and they are loaded with big red snapper and mangroves. Let’s go fishing!
Spring fishing coming soon
Spring fishing coming soon
Feb 6, 2019 Port St. Joe
Getting ready for some hot spring fishing. Tripletail start showing up in April along with the big trout and redfish. The offshore fishing will be on fire in May! Let’s go fishing

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Jared M.
Olathe, KS
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Half day with Captain Bruce

VERIFIED   NEW  5 Hour Trip (AM) on May 30, 2021
Fished the AM with Captain Bruce on June 30th. Weather was great, equipment was great and Bruce was great. Captain Bruce got...
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Corey S.
Parsippany, NJ
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VERIFIED   5 Hour Trip (AM) on August 5, 2020
Awesome trip!  Bruce was very personable and professional.  He wasted no time putting us on some fish!  We caught some triple...
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Lee M.
Prattville, AL
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Inshore and offshore

VERIFIED   NEW  6 Hour Trip – Offshore on June 10, 2021
This guy is very genuine.  He did more than just put us on fish. He took time and worked with us to catch all different kinds...
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Nathan W.
Concord, GA
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Half day morning trip

VERIFIED   NEW  5 Hour Trip (AM) on June 15, 2021
Captain Bruce was top notch! We got on a nice triple tail bite and landed a keeper. Captain Bruce knew what he was talking...
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Steve P.
Altha, Florida
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Morning trip with Captain Bruce

VERIFIED   6 Hour Trip – Offshore on July 5, 2020
I sent my children with Captain Bruce on a half day trip when we visited the gulf. Captain Bruce was professional, knowledgeable,...
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