Charter Operator
Cool Change Charters

Member since May 2015 Orange Beach, United States
Background
I started commercial fishing the bays at the age of 12, and have since worked on the water, running all types of vessels. I have been in the charter fishing business full-time since 1987, and I have been USCG licensed since 1982. I have fished over 4,000 paid charters and still love to see people catch fish! Our crew takes pride in our boat, customers, and catch. I would like to have the opportunity to take you and your family, or a group of friends, fishing!
Techniques
I use whatever will work, we use live bait and light tackle for the inshore fishing.

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Orange Beach, United States
Background
I started commercial fishing the bays at the age of 12, and have since worked on the water, running all types of vessels. I have been in the charter fishing business full-time since 1987, and I have been USCG licensed since 1982. I have fished over 4,000 paid charters and still love to see people catch fish! Our crew takes pride in our boat, customers, and catch. I would like to have the opportunity to take you and your family, or a group of friends, fishing!
Techniques
I use whatever will work, we use live bait and light tackle for the inshore fishing.
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Our Team
Joe N.
Captain
Adam A.
First mate

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Cool Change Charters

Federally permitted
Excellent
4.7 / 5
(210 reviews)
Orange Beach
 Last booking: 3 hours ago
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Trips from US $350

Cool Change Inshore Fishing

State licensed
Excellent
4.8 / 5
(49 reviews)
Orange Beach
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Trips from US $400

Fishing Reports

5hr Fishing trip
5hr Fishing trip
Jun 10, 2025 Orange Beach
Had an afternoon 5hr fishing trip and trolled out to the bottom fishing grounds and caught some spanish mackerel qnd Bonita. Bottom fishinh started out pfetty slow and took a while to get on some bottom fish. We ended up catching some keeper snapper on 2 spots along with a nice king mackerel on the drift line.
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5hr Fishing trip
5hr Fishing trip
Jun 10, 2025 Orange Beach
Had an afternoon 5hr fishing trip and trolled out to the bottom fishing grounds and caught some spanish mackerel qnd Bonita. Bottom fishinh started out pfetty slow and took a while to get on some bottom fish. We ended up catching some keeper snapper on 2 spots along with a nice king mackerel on the drift line.
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Red Snapper are Biting
Red Snapper are Biting
Jun 6, 2025 Orange Beach
Had a small company trip, we targeted Red Snapper, Vermillion snapper and spanish mackerel. Had a good trip with a limit of snapper, biggest one was tad over 23lbs
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6hr bottom fishing
6hr bottom fishing
May 30, 2025 Orange Beach
Had to go a little garther than normal to het some fish to bite but when we got there we caught Vermillion snappers and tons of undersized triggerfish, action was definitely there. Had 1 big shark on and everyone faught him and he finally got loose. Great group of people .
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Bottom fishing Blast
Bottom fishing Blast
May 28, 2025 Orange Beach
Took a large family out with plenty of kids to reel the fish in! They were busy catching olenty of keeper Vermillion snappers and alot of triggerfish (only 1 keeper today) they were busy the whole time catching.
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Fishing has been good this week
Fishing has been good this week
Sep 21, 2024 Orange Beach
Had a few inshore tripa did well on flounder, Spanish mackerel, black snapper and one trip after catching flounders and black snapper we went drift fishing for kings we caught and released 10 kings on light tackle in an hourall between 1p and over 20lbs awesome trip! Offshore been catching some spanish,kings ,bonita and bottom fishing for Vermillion snapper.
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Customer reviews

Rating summary
Excellent
4.8 / 5
out of 5 stars from 259 reviews
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Boat
Excellent
4.7 / 5
Crew
Excellent
4.9 / 5
Experience
Excellent
4.7 / 5
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Great captain and first mate
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Angler rating
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Anglers claimed
Good experience
91%
Friendly captain
99%
Recommend this charter
93%
Appropriate for children
92%
Satisfied with the boat
97%
Caught fish
90%
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Anthony D.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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5 hrs Combo trip with young kids

VERIFIED   NEW  5 Hour combo Trip (AM) on June 12, 2025
Cool Change charters was a great experience.ย  We had 4 kids who had never been deep sea fishing and Cool Change Charters put...
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Tracy S.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
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5.0 / 5
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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Great captain and first mate

VERIFIED   NEW  3/4 Day Trip โ€“ Bottom Fish (AM) on May 30, 2025
The captain and first mate were so patient and kind with our group.ย  The first mate was superb.ย  Adam answered our endless...
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Matthew B.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Successful family outing!

VERIFIED   NEW  5 Hour combo Trip (AM) on June 19, 2025
Many thanks to Captain Joe and deckhand Adam for a great trip today. We caught several Spanish mackerel as we trolled out to...
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Kevin T.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Boat
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Crew
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Fishing with Joseph

VERIFIED   3/4 Day Trip โ€“ Bottom Fish (AM) on May 14, 2025
Charter was great, fishing was OK because of weather. Windy, captain still got us on fish.went with 8 of us and we all caught...
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Jay B.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
Experience:
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5.0 / 5
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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Perfect Trip

VERIFIED   NEW  Trolling (AM) Family Special on May 26, 2025
Inshore half day and hammered more than 40 fishโ€ฆ King and Spanish Mackerel and a few other species while trolling. It was...
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