First let me say I have a lot of experience fishing and understand it’s fishing not catching.  I have chartered many times in many places, I also owe a fishing boat in NY.

The boat is not comfortable, seatings ok for two in the fighting chairs but anyone else is on a bench that is not a ideal situation for the rough waters of Aruba.

As far as the fishing we didn’t have any luck trolling so when I asked to switch to some bottom fishing I was told they didn’t bring any bait.  As I mentioned I’ve chartered many times and when I troll back in NY there is always a plan “B’ if nothing is hitting when trolling.  We wasted a hour going to get bait which costed $30.

If you don’t know anything about fishing you might enjoy this charter but I don’t recommend it to a experienced group.

We had a very lackluster and boring trip.  The captain was unable to get us on to fish and we effectively just paid for a boat ride.  We only caught two small barracuda, and nothing we were going for.  The captains had the old “well that’s why it’s called fishing and not catching” attitude. I would not take this charter again or recommend it in the future.