Captain Gavin and Nick were great.  Easy to understand instructions and very friendly, even for a family of 4 with 2 teenagers.  We had a great time for our first time fishing like this.  We caught many rockfish, some barracuda, and a calico bass.  If we come back to San Diego, we woud definitely book this trip again (and maybe longer than 5 hours).  We saw sea lions and a few dolphins.  Awesome trip!!  Thanks guys!!

Overall, our trip was fun, but it started off completely wrong. I booked with Captain Brian and his boat the Apex, but instead Captain Galvin showed up with a boat 3 or 4 feet smaller than what I anticipated. I purposefully chose the larger boat (and paid extra for it) because my spouse gets seasick. Needless to say, my spouse was sick the entire time. Not only that, Captain Galvin is a smoker, so we had to endure smelling his cigarette smoke (which we despise) the entire duration. Nonetheless, his mate was great with us novice fisherwomen - although he did snap at my friend and me for “doing it wrong” a couple of times. But, like I said, we did have a good time. I just wish we would’ve gotten Captain Brian because he’s the one I chose after reading all the wonderful reviews about him. Oh, and trust me, deepsea fishing is not for the weak! It was workout reeling those fish in!!

Gavin and Nick did an outstanding job making our first sea fishing trip as a family of 4 a success. Once captain Gavin found the fish, he and Nick worked like a well oiled machine, baiting the hooks, measuring fish, keeping us with lines in the water. We were fish on most of the time! We have two boys, 11 and 13. Gavin and Nick did a great job keeping them reeling up the fish. We caught a sheep head, Bonita, bass and a couple baracuda. Totally worth it. Highly recommend. We will be booking again a longer charter on our next visit to San Diego!

it was the perfect trip with the rightvamount of time on the water for some one who couod get motion sickness on a boat
the captain and Nick were very helpful and
the whole family kids and older had a
great time