We’ve been vacationing in the St. Petersburg area for over 20 years. In that time we have done numerous fishing charters, including the local “party boats” and other private charters. Captain Rich and Reef Relief Charters was by far the most pleasurable experience we have had in all this time. Captain Rich was personable, honest, flexible, easy to talk to, and truly cares about his craft. All the attributes you want when you place trust in someone to take you and your family out in the open water. Not only was his character impeccable, but also the fishing was phenomenal as well. We went out on a 6 hour offshore charter. It was my 8 year old daughter’s first charter experience. Not only did Captain Rich help her catch a monster red grouper, he also was attentive to everyone in the family making it easy to fill our cooler with fish. Over all, a completely phenomenal day. If only there were more people in the world dedicated to their profession like Captain Rich.

We had so much fun with Captain Rich, he was fun and entertaining, had great stories that he shared with us. Plus he was very attentive to helping us bait our hooks, taking the fish off, letting us know exactly what we caught. Even though we are a fishing family he was still helping us through the whole trip, and there were 6 of us! The fishing was good, caught plenty of fish to bring back with us to Wisconsin. We cannot WAIT to come back next year!

This was a trip for my son’s 16th birthday. Whether it be my son who is an avid fisher to myself and his best friend who are lesss abide to the rest of the family who does not fish the captain kept everyone well entertained and having fun. He knew what what he was doing and kept us all fishing non stop. If an area dried up on bites he’d move us and immediately after dropping lines in we were pulling up fish again! We flew in from NJ so we didn’t have a way to keep the fish we caught and he said he would be giving the fish to those who need it (save for my 25” Mahi Mahi … that was for him!) We can not recommend him highly enough and look forward to booking again!

10/10 highly recommend. I have been on charters from Iceland to Rhode Island to Puget Sound and this was one of my favorites. We had 4 guys with a couple experienced anglers and two newbies. The captain took us out 20 miles and we were on fish the entire time. The captain kept moving to keep us on active fish. We caught keeper hogfish and other reef fish and some nice grouper (we released safely). The captain cleaned and bagged our fish and taught us a ton about fishing tactics in the Gulf. I can’t wait to get out on this boat again next month.

We had a great afternoon fishing woth Captain Dave! we caught a variety of fish, saw dolphins and sea turtles. He was knowledgeable and super easy going and professional. Cleaned the fish for us and gave us recommendations on cooking or a local restaurant that will cook your catch for you! great worh our kids! definitely recommend