Trip Provisions

What IS included in your charter:

Your charter will include all the gear, bait, fuel, and ice necessary to supply your day of fishing. Clients are more than welcome to bring their own gear if they’d like. Except for small food/drink coolers, clients should leave coolers for their catch in their vehicles.  Typically, we can supply ice following our return. The charters fare is for (6) passengers MAXIMUM, we are not permitted or licensed to exceed that amount.

What is NOT included:

Beverages and food are not supplied. We always have a case of water on board; however, this is typically reserved for emergency use.  If bringing sandwiches, we suggest you place them in Ziplock bags to ensure dryness.  

Sea sickness:

Sea sickness can occur to anyone; we suggest that anyone who has even the slightest concern about being seasick takes an over-the-counter motion sickness medicine prior to departure. It’s cheap insurance to make sure you have the most enjoyable day on the water.  If you become sick, please do not get sick anywhere inside the boat. Best practice is to get outside on the deck and vomit overboard or on the deck.  We have no problem cleaning up the outside of the boat.

Alcohol/Drugs:

Alcohol is permitted on the trip. Beer MUST be canned, NO bottles are permitted per Coast Guard regulations.  Please limit your alcohol consumption.  We believe 100% in being safe and responsible on the water. Any trips cut short by alcohol or drug abuse will not be issued a refund. 

Cancelation Policy:

Cancelations can be made, with no penalty, up to 15 days prior to the scheduled day of your trip. Your deposit money will be refunded or placed toward a rescheduled trip, whichever you request.  Cancellations made between 14 and 8 days of the scheduled trip will be subject to a 50% forfeit of the deposit if the trip is not rescheduled to another date.  Cancellations made within 7 days of the scheduled trip will result in a 100% forfeit of deposit if the day cannot be booked to another party. If it is booked, you may use your deposit for a future trip.  No-shows on the scheduled charter date will result in a 100% forfeit of the deposit. 

Weather and Seas: 

The Captain is constantly following current weather/sea conditions and future forecasting.  If the Captain deems the seas not conducive to safe fishing conditions, the captain may cancel the trip. If the Captain cancels the trip, you will be issued a refund of your deposit or credit toward a future booking, whichever you prefer.  In many instances, we will contact our client prior to a trip to bring you up to speed on conditions.

Tackle, gear, and equipment: 

Thousands of dollars in top-of-the-line equipment are invested to make your experience productive and enjoyable.  We ask that you take care in handling our gear.  The captain and crew will be there to help keep things problem free and educate you in proper handling. If a passenger proves negligent in the handling of gear and breaks/loses something you agree to pay the replacement cost of such gear. This would be a rare occurrence, but a couple of examples would be dropping something overboard or throwing something on the deck, or stepping on it, causing breakage. 

Mate/Tips:

Your mate is working for your tip.  He will be working hard throughout the day.  This is “fishing”. Some days are better than others regarding our catch.  Please base your tip on the work that the mate put in to catch fish as some days we’ll limit out and some days we won’t. 20% of the trip cost is customary for tipping.  

Fish cleaning:

There is a top-notch cleaning service “Hook ‘Em & Cook ‘Em” at Indian River Marina. Upon return to port, if you would like your fish cleaned for you, they will be happy to do so. We can pull the boat up directly to them where we will unload your catch.  The cost isn’t much and it is customary to tip the person the cleans the fish. Should you wish to take your catch home to clean, we will gladly help load your coolers into your vehicles.