Captain Nick and Mate Roberto were very helpful and kind. I fish mainly freshwater at home in Houston and seldom ever gone off shore. Roberto was helpful and both guys coaching was what you should expect. I did catch a Marlin and a Dorado. The MauiMahi was cleaned for me and I had it prepared at Captain Tony’s and they did a premier job with my catch. Would not have the catch without Nick and Roberto. Great experience and I will recommend the Viviana fleet to all my friends.

Tight Lines,

Randi R. Phelps

Our trip start at 6:30 am by 7am we had 2 good size Mahi mahi, then by 7:30 my husband had catch a 11 feet 150lbs marlin then by noon he was catching a 10 feet 120lbs sail fish,both absolutely beautiful. Our captain was Nick and the mate was Robert. Amazing both,between them and Kim the owner made my husband and myself a great vacation, we being fishing with “viviana” now for 4 years will not change a thing. Gloria Schindehette

Captian and first mate are clearly inexperianced , i have caught marlin, sailfish and other fish before , there technique is very poor , there are other ways to fish for marlin to increase you odds of catching one, fished all day and did not even get a bite , we even saw marlin on the surface feeding , but still nothing , also, the marina is overcharging for bait, we did’nt find out that , until we paid for the charter and were on our way out,  if you have never fished before , you might think the fish just were not biting , but they really have a poor fishing technique, most of the time the first mate was up top . instead of trying to increase our odds of fishing, We only used 5 lines , all other good fisherman use 7 or more , i don’t think they now how to use 7 lines , they thought my the idea of putting bait on every line was no good, i disagree !

Weather was questionable but the crew did little to nothing to make the trip better. They spent more time “looking” for fish. There was one fish caught while fishing for bait - but we bought bait - and the crew kept it!  I would NOT recommend this boat, crew or fishing company. More expensive than others and lazy crew.  I understand bad weather but the crew had two lines in and never gave us an opportunity to actually fish. No trolling and only the two lines in. We made it clear that we were experienced and could handle setting our own hooks. We never touched a pole! The crew fished when they weren’t moving the boat to another location. Other boats around us caught fish but I felt our crew didn’t really care if they caught or not. We thought we would get the one fish landed on OUR charter even tho the crew member brought it on board. Nope. Apparently they wanted it. In showing pics of that fish We were told it is a desirable grouper type fish.  I fish charters a lot, this is one of two truly awful fishing trips in the last 15 years. I think the crew could not have cared less about our experience on their boat.