Day trip with Captain John
What a terrible experience with Captain John. I’ve fished all over the world and have never experienced such a poorly run fishing guide. We paid top dollar for it too. First off, we were taken out in a non compliant boat which I learned after boating around for 45min trying to find extra oil to comply with state regulations, which we didn’t find. Couldn’t the boat have been prepared in advance? After trolling for hours and not catching anything, we had two line hang ups and was asked to real in one of them because they thought they had a fish on. We fished for hours with no action. Captain John said we would get live bait and try that method but he never did anything, no bait, no alternate fishing methods to get us into anything. He wasn’t prepared at all. He decided to pull the lines and take us spear fishing, I was excited to do it. We dropped anchor and jumped in near the coast, as he was handing me the spear he said that what we were doing was illegal so to not let any other boats see us. Are you kidding me? Next thing I noticed was that the snorkel mask and breathing tub had been completely drenched in gasoline. Yes, gasoline. Every mask had this issue, it was insane. We left the area and went to lunch on a small island, food was good and the locals were really nice. Captain John and his crew member said we would tour the castle and maybe fish off the shore of this area knowing we hadn’t caught anything yet, but they had no interest in taking us there. He instead boated us up to one of his personal properties to show us the progress he was making on his new restaurant. He was more interested in talking to his contractors than helping us catch anything. We waisted time there when we should have been fishing. All of this was on top of his racist jokes, yes, legitimate horrible racist jokes aimed at the people of Colombia. Do not give your money to this guy.
Unfortunately the fishing conditions wernt in our favor and we opt to try something different for you guys seeing that one of the guys joing you didnt have much experience offshore. The diving masks were cleaned with rubbing alcohol after speaking to my mate duny they could have been cleaned out properly. Spearfishing close to shore is frowned upon by the locals not illegal. Knowing that we try to limit our spearfishing close to shore. When leaving the boat we offered to take you guys out on a clammer day on the house. We also paid for your guys lunch at the beach due to the poor fishing conditions. The beach message seemed to be the highlight for the day. Sorry to see your bad review and wish you could have spoke to me direct before hand. Everyone has different expectations. We run into different problems operationg in a third world country and its a bit different for some people. Our reputation is great and we want to keep it that way. Again sorry and message us direct to come to a agreement if you desire.
