Capt Scooby was very accommodating and convinced us to upgrade out 6 hour trip to 8 hours to allow us to go out further. He had no fish finder (said it was recently stolen) and at least one of the spinning reels on board was in poor condition. All the rest of the tackle was good. We saw lots of whales, dolphins, and schools of tuna breaking the surface, but were unable to land any tuna (one was hooked, but lost due to fisherman error). We did catch three Spanish mackerel for eating, and also two bonita. On the way back in we ran across a school of bait fish running away from something, and very quickly hooked three Jack Cravalle. They were powerful fighters as advertised, and were the highlight of our trip. The mate cleaned our fish on the way back in, and we were able to leave quickly after docking.

Had a great day with these guys, definitely know what they are doing. We caught 5 Bonito’s and 2 Mahi Mahi.

Got scammed the whole trip start to finish. Add says licenses are included, captain shows up with half the licenses because they are expensive so if we get stopped pretend only half of us are fishing. Paid for 8 hour offshore trip captain says 100$ more dollars if you want to go offshore. Has list of cool fish they catch depending on the month, nope trolled around the bay for Bonita. Captain nearly hit a couple whales because he was on the radio annd phone the whole time not paying attention. He proceeded the yell ant us saying it was our job to watch out for whales.  After a garbage trip captain informed us the tip is a minimum 20% and was very rude about it.

Boat clean and in good repair. Crew friendly and knowledgeable. Boat handling very good for 38’. 5 mackerel in30 minutes. Nothing after. Sail lounging at surface. Tried casting but no interest in bait. Couple of quick strikes on poles but fish did not match on. Couple of skip jack schools but no bites. I think we were hungrier than the fish.