The Connoisseur 

Captain Matt took my family and I out on a great trip into the Gulf! We started out the day catching some small bait fish after seeing a beautiful sunrise on the water. After securing the bait, we went fishing for some Vermillion Snapper. While this is what we were primarily aiming to catch throughout the day, we also caught some Trigger fish and Squirrelfish while fishing for them. When Captain Matt saw some gulls diving and fish jumping, he rigged another rod to use some of the live bait to catch Amberjack. With his help, we were able to bring a couple of these into the boat with one being about a 30-pounder and the other having been bit by a shark on the way in (which was certainly a cool experience)! We unfortunately had to throw them back because they were out of season, but they offered a great fight. Captain Matt was very attentive to everyone throughout the day, constantly keeping everyone's hooks baited, pulling fish off the hooks for everyone, and genuinely just making sure everyone was having a good time. He was quick to move to a new spot when the fish weren't biting, and he was ready to listen and adjust his plan to what we all wanted to do. Overall, we caught 42 Vermillion Snapper we could keep, and I'd estimate we probably caught over 60 fish throughout our time on the boat! Matt filleted them all when we got back to shore, and even recommended a restaurant (Brotula's) that would cook the fish for us! We ended up with around 6.5 pounds of fillets and it felt immensely satisfying that the 5 of us who went out to fish were able to feed our full party of 10 with no issues. It was a fantastic experience, and I'll definitely be passing on Matt's information to anyone I know looking to do some fishing here in Destin!

Captian Matt was amazing! Weather started out bad, but he kept us out and put us on some fish! We trolled a bit and caught a Spanish Mackerel, so he decided to do some bottom fishing and put us on a lot of Amberjack, which unfortunately is not in season, but still fun to catch! We also caught some Red Snapper, Red Grouper and Scamp Grouper! We will be chartering with him again in the future, when Amberjack season comes in! Highly recommend!!

We had some weather that morning that pushed the trip back a little bit but captain Matt stayed in contact with me and stayed on top of the weather. We went out around 1 and went and started catching bait and fish to eat which is what we were wanting to do and after we had got pretty much all we wanted for eating then we went after some bigger fun fish. I caught a 6’ shark probably 100 pounds or better and hooked up on a couple amberjacks and we think another shark. All in all this was a great trip and Matt kept us on top of fish. Great guy and we will be planning another trip. Hopefully soon😎

Captain Matt kicked off the tour by netting us dozens of baitfish in one quick throw. We then scooted around the bay to a few spots. All in all we had a couple dozen bites and caught several bluefish, Spanish mackerel and a cat among others. In addition, we had seceral very close interactions with a number of dolphins (within a few feet), which the kids were really into.

Captain Matt is an amazing captain. We never ran out of bait. He worked his butt off to make sure that we had a good experience. We caught so many fish we were worn out we hooked into several big fish unfortunately we was unable to land most of them, one of our members hooked into a shark and actually got it up to the boat. I would recommend this trip to anyone. Our boys haven’t stopped talking about. We had a great time. I’d like to say thank you to the captain, Matt. We look forward to doing this again. I would recommend this to anyone.