We booked a trip last year with another charter and, unfortunately, didn’t catch a single fish.

This year, we went out with Tyler and Alan from Always Tight Fishing Charters—and what a difference! Even though my kids are grown, they had the time of their lives. I wanted to give them a trip to remember, and this one absolutely delivered. I honestly can’t recall a moment all day when someone wasn’t reeling something in. We even landed a 7-foot shark!

We’ll definitely be back next year!

Captain Tyler was very responsive leading up to the trip with any questions that we had. On the day of the trip he did a great job at putting us on fish and maximizing our fishing time by trolling in between spots. We caught a wide variety of fish such as snapper, mackerel, sharks, etc. We were worn out by the end of the trip.

Everything went great from start to finish. First, we received a phone call two days prior to see
If we’d like to switch our time to a time with more favorable weather. This was the best choice we made and we were so thankful they called and checked. While on the boat we had a blast catching fish within 6 minutes of leaving the dock. We came back with enough fish to feed our entire 12 person family plus leftovers for days. We would highly recommend Always Tight to anyone.

We arrived early and crew was ready to go! We had an excellent 6 hour trip with our party of 4. Captain Tyler and Allen had us fishing quickly and we caught our limit of Snapper along with Grouper, Tooni and Vermillion. Allen cleaned and filleted everything in 40 minutes.He worked like a machine all day to keep us fishing. Captain Tyler and Allen have the cleanest boat and gear anywhere. I would recommend them to anyone, and we will be back!

Captain Tyler initiated confirmation texting with excellent directions straight to the boat! We charter fish every year and this is our 4th company. We wanted a variety of catchable fish for kids, good eating fish and ideally a large trophy catch. Limited by time 5-6 hrs and 12–14 year old children with limited ability to pull heavy fish or tolerate long traveling.

We immediately started trolling from bridge and 2-5mi from shore, catching good size “Tunie” fish (7 or 8 fish) which are fun and easy for kids. Pretty fish (ok, but not great to eat).

Then we bottom fished. Lots of small-medium vermillion (red fish-good eating keepers, but small 12-16inch). Also caught red snappers, grouper, trigger (throw back-out of season, but great fighters).

Likely more lucky, we had caught plenty and had enough time to bottom fish for amber jack! Caught 2!!! (32 inch- throw back because too small and a 35 inch keeper!!!).

Lastly, Allen (boat hand) filleted the fish and bagged it up! He worked hard especially while bottom fishing helping the kids and keeping hooks in the water!

Pros:
-Knowledgable allowing customizing trip as needed (weather, goals, kids, time, etc).

-super clean boat with great air conditioning!

-great communication (You’ll never appreciate it until you have somebody that is bad at it)

-Filleted and bags fish. (Not all places do that. and some charge extra).

-con: 6 person limit