Captain
Jim Branthoover

Member since July 2017 Murrells Inlet, United States
Background
My love for fishing started when I was young boy fishing in Pennsylvania with my father. We fished in the streams for Trout, and the rivers for Catfish, Bass, and Walleye. I moved to Upstate New York, where I fell in love with the big waters of the Great Lakes, the Salmon run, and the Pike and Lake Trout fishing. Over the years, I made my way, with my family, to the coast of South Carolina. Immediately I was Intrigued by the mysteries of the deep ocean, the beautiful pelagic fish, and the tasty reef fish. I spent many days fishing and many days on the local waters with my son, as he caught bait for the local shops, eventually deciding that I wanted to be able to help others experience the joy and excitement that can only come from offshore fishing.
Techniques
When bottom fishing we choose to use spinning reels, equipped with heavy, and X-heavy rods, lined with braid for maximum strength and sensitivity. We decided to use spinning reels for the convenience of those on board, as many people are familiar with them. Often times we do use conventional reels while bottom fishing when targeting sharks and grouper. Conventional reels are also our choice for trolling, balloon fishing, or free lining live bait. All of which we hope you are more then willing to learn to use if you are not familiar with them.

Hey, I'm Captain Jim Branthoover

Murrells Inlet, Verenigde Staten
Background
My love for fishing started when I was young boy fishing in Pennsylvania with my father. We fished in the streams for Trout, and the rivers for Catfish, Bass, and Walleye. I moved to Upstate New York, where I fell in love with the big waters of the Great Lakes, the Salmon run, and the Pike and Lake Trout fishing. Over the years, I made my way, with my family, to the coast of South Carolina. Immediately I was Intrigued by the mysteries of the deep ocean, the beautiful pelagic fish, and the tasty reef fish. I spent many days fishing and many days on the local waters with my son, as he caught bait for the local shops, eventually deciding that I wanted to be able to help others experience the joy and excitement that can only come from offshore fishing.
Techniques
When bottom fishing we choose to use spinning reels, equipped with heavy, and X-heavy rods, lined with braid for maximum strength and sensitivity. We decided to use spinning reels for the convenience of those on board, as many people are familiar with them. Often times we do use conventional reels while bottom fishing when targeting sharks and grouper. Conventional reels are also our choice for trolling, balloon fishing, or free lining live bait. All of which we hope you are more then willing to learn to use if you are not familiar with them.
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Fishing with Jim

GECONTROLEERD   10 Hour Trip โ€“ Deep Bottom op Juli 14, 2024
The captain seemed like a good guy and fisherman. It was just me and three young kids for an offshore trip. The captain was...
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7hr trip - Amazing!!!

GECONTROLEERD   7 Hour Trip op Mei 5, 2023
What a great experience all-around. Wicked Hooker will be our go-to for deep sea fishing in the future. Captain Jim is awesome...
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7 hour off shore trip

GECONTROLEERD   7 Hour Trip op Augustus 3, 2022
we had a very nice trip. We were looking for some harder fighting fish so even though the seas were less than desirable, captain...
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7-hr bottom fishing

GECONTROLEERD   7 Hour Trip op Augustus 31, 2024
Captain Jim put us right on the fish everywhere we went. We had a great day fishing and caught strawberry grouper, vermilion...
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7 Hour trip

GECONTROLEERD   7 Hour Trip op Juni 30, 2023
My two boys (14 & 10YO) had a 7 hour trip with Captain Jim. He got us on fish right away and we had a steady bite all day....
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