I booked this trip for my family and we were very disappointed by this trip with Captain Mark and his deck hand (daughter). Basically we paid for a 5 hour boat ride with about 30 mins to an hour worth of fishing. They only let us fish for red snapper and once the limit was caught (2 per person), that was all they let us fish for. The deck hand, who is Captain Marks daughter, laid up in the bed below deck the majority of the time. She only came out to unhook the fish, never baited or assisted my family. She didn’t work for her tip at all. When it came time to pay Captain Mark for the remainder of the trip and the CUSTOMARY 20% tip for the deck hand, we deducted from that based on the experience. Captain Mark counted the money in front of us and said we were $180 short for the MANDATORY tip and made us pay the full 20%. That is NOT what it says on the listing. We paid $1700 for a 5 hour boat ride and for 10 red snappers. Never once did they get to fish for trigger fish, vermillion or anything else even though they asked to fish for other species. In the listing, it does say other species will be fished for as well. Based on all of Captain Marks reviews, we had really high hopes for this trip. I am heartbroken for my family that this experience was far from what we were expecting and we are out all that money for such a terrible experience. I would not recommend Captain Mark as he does not care to provide the things he has offered in his listing.

The captain his and his daughter wasn’t very friendly And it looks like the fishing equipment they had was Rushed and Corroded and run down and barely worked sometimes we had one real fall apart on us and the others were so messed up they barely would drop you had to shake the Pole to get them to do anything would not recommend this trip to anybody

First the captain ( Mark ) was a no show. Then the deck hand was past out drunk on the boat. So the fill in Captain had to pull a young kid from another boat who could not even tie a good not so we lost a lot of fish because the hook’s kept coming loose. The fill in Captain did a pretty good job with the crap he had helping.  I will not use this Boat ever again. Also found out the owner of the boat had passed away, so maybe they just did not care one way or another.Said he was gonna sell the boat !!!!!!!!!