My boyfriend’s first trip out!

First anyone booking this captain should know he is a non-stop smoker. He never asked if it would bother me, the customer. Not used to being around smoke this made me feel ill. He did not seem concerned about what I (the customer) wanted. I had texted him before booking and informed him I preferred live bait and even asked if he had a bait casting nets in case we ran out. He said yes but then when I got there and after I boarded he informed me we were going to use artificial lures 90% of the time. However, before that he told me how much his boat cost and then how much he paid for his canvas and where I was allowed to put my hands so I would not hurt his canvas. He also told me how much his rods and reels cost and on almost every cast was telling me when to close the bail all because he said he may lose some of the fishing line which was expensive. When I pay $700 for aa trip I should not have to be worried if he has to spend a few dollars for new line. Except for when we first went out and stopped by a dock with lights and caught a few blues we pretty much did not catch anything for the rest of the day. The captain kept telling me some days are like this. I understand some days are better than others. however, I have been booking charters for 10 years and this is the worst experience I ever had. Now we may have not done any better by using live bait but at least then it would have been my choice. The last thing I’ll say even though there were other problems was when he did try to catch some finger mullets we spent between 1.5 and 2 hours looking for mullet he never found and any time he did try to use the baitcast nets most times they did not open right which may me question his ability to properly use one. Bottom line this was probably the worst experience I ever had and would not recommend Pirates Life 4 Us to anyone.

Captain Tim was funny with his jokes.  We caught less than 6 fish during the 5 hour trip of which none were keepers.
I was disappointed that the Captain choose to stay in one spot for 3 hours with little activity.  I know fishing can be off on some days but I’d expect a charter Captain to move around more to attempt to find more activity.