Easy communications before including how/where to meet up.  Beautiful weather, great boat and great Capt.  Capt Art stayed very busy with lots of gear to catch fish.  Nice steelhead and several nice lake trout, one over 12 pounds.  Wife and I are frequently fishing the US, Canada and Mexico so we’re happy to finally fish Lake Michigan.  Charlevoix is a beautiful community with lots going on mid summer so take a day and evening to stroll the downtown waterfront too.  We’ll fish again with Whitecap charter and Capt Art in the fall when salmon are active!  Thanks folks!!

At 70 years old we caught so many fish over 12 pounds I let my son pull the last 4 into the boat Captain Art was great.
He shared how he can put out up to 8 or 9 lines at one time without the getting tangled up during the trip. He cleaned the fish and let us know the local famous John Cross fishery here in Charlevoix could smoke them- we took three, two to be smoked by the John Cross company. We cooked the smallest lake trout tonight based his on his suggested method on the grill at our rental house and it was the best. We will take the smoked lake trout to Texas with us. The captain said the 20 lbs. of smoke fish cut into pieces will be great for up to a year. It was a lot of fun, and I plan to do it every year going forward.

But I really loved that Captain Art was taking the remaining 20 or more pounds of the clean Lake Trout to the women’s shelter here in Charlevoix, he they love it when he brings it to them. That made it pretty much a perfect day.

My father, brother, and I had a nice time out with Captain Adam. We caught our limit for lake trout and tried for salmon, but it was too early in the evening. The boat was nicely equipped, and the dock was easy to find. Parking was easier than I thought it would be. It is one street over from the marina and wasn’t crowded which I thought it would be because the main street it connects to was jampacked at that time of day. This was our first charter trip so a bit more information about what was happening would have been helpful. When all the rods started getting set up, we weren’t actually sure we’d be doing anything at all except watching. But as it turns out, we are the ones to reel the fish in. An FYI, if you’re new like us.

Clean boat! The captain and his mate were friendly and knowledgeable! We caught 8 large lake trout… The captain cleaned the fish, and we walked across the street with some of it to the villager pub – – the chef at the restaurant cooked the fish in three ways: sautéed in butter, deep-fried, and blackened – – delicious!

Had a great trip with my son. Captain Art is very welcoming and knowledgeable. Would highly recommend.