Fishheadspin
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Went to the destin charter service that we have used for years without problem. The boat we usually use is booked up so we trust the charter service for another boat. bad move...we are put on the REEL DOC. we show up at the dock last tuesday, June 27, at 6 AM, settle up the finaces and we are ready to go.
Problem number one, no captain. the deck hands are there everything seems ready to go but no skipper. After 45 mins the woman at the charter desk comes out and asks about the captain. finally an 1.5 hours later captain shows and does nto say a word to us. no sorry, no apology nothing. we load up and take off. we catch our bait and then to the fishing grounds. we rode about a mile and we all notice that we are putting out lines to mackeral fish, not a problem but we wanted to snapper fish! so we catch 2 tiny mackeral and then mr shark comes by. we fight him for about 20 minutes then bigger bull comes by. deck hand tells us to bust off first shark the catch bigger shark. 9/0 rod was already rigged. during the fight with the first shark we told them we were not interested in shark fishing we want snapper. falls on deaf hears. finally the bigger shark hooks up on one of our mackeral we caught. 2 hours later we catch the beast, 8 footer, who knows what it weighed. OK now can we go snapper fish? Here is problem number 2 Every thing is dead, no electronics at all. generator is smaking and dead. Capt tells us we have to head in.
Back at the dock we are told we will be refunded half our money so that we are charged for a 4 hour charter. But hey we are going to be in the paper! we argued the point that we never fished for anything we wanted and we did not want a shark trip but charter service told us it was the captains word over ours.
Total horse hockey.
we all noticed that noone at the docks seemed to care for the captain or his crew so they must be pretty much A holes.
I recommend that noone ever use the destin charter service. And if you see the Reel Doc on the water hang um a bird for me.
Our total.
1 big ass shark (AKA great advertisment for REEL DOC)
1 tiny king (aka shark bait)
out 500 bucks and total dissapointment.
Problem number one, no captain. the deck hands are there everything seems ready to go but no skipper. After 45 mins the woman at the charter desk comes out and asks about the captain. finally an 1.5 hours later captain shows and does nto say a word to us. no sorry, no apology nothing. we load up and take off. we catch our bait and then to the fishing grounds. we rode about a mile and we all notice that we are putting out lines to mackeral fish, not a problem but we wanted to snapper fish! so we catch 2 tiny mackeral and then mr shark comes by. we fight him for about 20 minutes then bigger bull comes by. deck hand tells us to bust off first shark the catch bigger shark. 9/0 rod was already rigged. during the fight with the first shark we told them we were not interested in shark fishing we want snapper. falls on deaf hears. finally the bigger shark hooks up on one of our mackeral we caught. 2 hours later we catch the beast, 8 footer, who knows what it weighed. OK now can we go snapper fish? Here is problem number 2 Every thing is dead, no electronics at all. generator is smaking and dead. Capt tells us we have to head in.
Back at the dock we are told we will be refunded half our money so that we are charged for a 4 hour charter. But hey we are going to be in the paper! we argued the point that we never fished for anything we wanted and we did not want a shark trip but charter service told us it was the captains word over ours.
Total horse hockey.
we all noticed that noone at the docks seemed to care for the captain or his crew so they must be pretty much A holes.
I recommend that noone ever use the destin charter service. And if you see the Reel Doc on the water hang um a bird for me.
Our total.
1 big ass shark (AKA great advertisment for REEL DOC)
1 tiny king (aka shark bait)
out 500 bucks and total dissapointment.
