Big Bend Charters

Interesting review. The captain was late because he was trying to help the couple find someone to share the trip. (after a cancellation) Read between the lines, they couldn't afford the trip and the captain tried to "make" their vacation by helping to find someone share... in expenses. No other captain in our area, would work so hard to find someone to share a charter. They wouldn't take the risk of losing money and creating this kind of review. Yet, we are lambasted for trying to "make" their vacation when they couldn't afford the whole boat. For this one bad review, I am sure we can give you a few thousand people who will vouch for a great vacation. They could afford Capt Terry because he is inshore, not offshore. 1/3 to 1/2 the price. We would stop offering this service to help people afford a day offshore, but Capt Brian wants to take people fishing and share the thrill of Steinhatchee. So we apologize and hope that you will take the whole picture into consideration. Read More

We booked a charter with Big Bend about a month in advance. We asked the captain to find someone to share the charter with us and was told that would not be a problem. We called before we left and were told we were good to go. We went by the dock the night before our... charter and found the boat and the mate on board. The mate said he was preparing for us and we were ready to go at 7:00 the next morning. We showed up at 6:45 and no one was there. At about 7:20 the captain showed up and told us the other couple cancelled so we were not going. We offered to pay extra to make up the gas but he would not take us. It took a lot of planning and a lot of money for us to get to Steinhatchee and we thought our trip was ruined. We went back to River Haven (where were staying) and the folks there hooked up up with Capt. Terry at Flat Out Charters -- incredible! He was there in minutes - we caught a ton of fish -- awesome! Read More

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