My family and I had an awesome trip with Captain Charles on our recent vacation to Cape Cod. We initially had booked a full day tuna charter, but because of weather and other commitments we had to pivot to a half-day striper charter.
From the get go Captain Charles was excellent. As soon as we stepped on the boat, he put us at ease and was very engaging. Maybe more importantly Captain Charles put us on fish right away and within 2 to 3 minutes of getting our lines wet, each of my son, his buddy, and I were all reeling in our first stripers.  An important distinction that I’d want to point out for people looking to engage a charter or guide, Captain Charles does not simply trawl or bottom fish. Rather, we were casting top water and catching a significant amount of striper while they would breach and attack our top water lures.  All five of us caught multiple good sized striper larger than 30 inches with the largest being just about 40 inches.
The cherry on top for our trip came towards the end of our adventure. While moving to our last fishing spot, we spotted two separate instances of mako sharks attacking stripers. The most impressive came when a mako took half of a striper, circled our boat a couple of times and then breached on the remaining half of the striper about 20 yards from the boat. it was amazing!
We will be back again and will book a charter with Captain Charles. We can’t wait to finally get our tuna charter on the books!by