Captain Mike Charters
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Panama City Beach, Florida
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12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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Jun 2024 • Family
We have fished with Mike as a family for over 10 years. He always makes sure we have a great time and catch lots of fish. He is great with our grandkids and they have learned so much about deep sea fishing from Capt Mike. His boat is very comfortable with a bathroom, air condition and bunks if you need to nap. Just bring your food and drinks and have a great trip!
Written June 16, 2024
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Jun 2014
The Battle family had the pleasure once again to fish with Chris and Brian on a Red Snapper fishing trip. It was an awesome experience. We caught our limit of Red Snappers, a combine total weight of over 100 pounds. It was a combination of snappers, rudderjacks, and a huge grouper .This was our second year fishing with Captain Mike's crew and I must say these guys are the best. Brian made sure we were taking care of while Chris put us on the fish. We are already planning our third trip with them next year. We can't wait to see how this trip turns out.
Written June 19, 2014
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Jul 2014 • Family
I wish there was a 6 star rating that was possible. My family had a wonderful experience on the 4 hour deep sea fishing trip on July 2nd. I would highly recommend this company to anyone for ANY of the fishing trips they offer. They were hard working, professional, respectful at all times, worked nicely with the kids, and displayed their fishing skills and knowledge immensely. Chris navigated the boat while Brian worked diligently to keep all the lines baited at all times. He made every minute count in trying to catch fish. We told him that if the fish would cooperate we hoped each child could catch their first deep sea fish and he worked SO hard to make that happen, and they did! Our family has a range of ages from 7-77 and Chris and Brian showed flexibility in working with all ages and making sure we had a good time. Brian was VERY patient with the little kids and even us adults with minimal fishing experience, and took the time to explain everything. The cabin's air conditioning was excellent so Grandpa could sit inside and stay out of the heat/sun while not fishing. Grandpa caught a 35" mackerel! Everyone on the boat caught at least one big fish, and my daughter and I caught 2 each. I was very impressed by how respectful and professional at all times Brian was in speaking with each of my family members, especially the kids. He was very knowledgeable about all aspects of fishing, and the different kinds of fish, and explained everything in detail about the deep sea fishing process, and even more about the local wild life. So we learned a lot AND had lots of fun. The boat was clean and the bathroom was clean. There is a table inside the cabin with GREAT A/C for the kids to sit at and eat. Before we started fishing, on our way out to sea, they took us by a spot that has dolphins so we were all thrilled to watch the dolphins swim right next to our boat! There are excursions you have to pay for to take you to see dolphins, so it was going above and beyond to stop there for a bit. We loved it! After the tour they took great care to hang up our fish and took the picture for us with our own camera so that we didnt have to pay the hovering professional photographers $20 for a photo! From beginning to end, they truly take pride in what they do and it shows and I will whole heartedly recommend them to all my friends and family traveling in the area. Thanks for being the best at what you do because it was the highlight of our whole week-long trip to Panama City Beach.
Written July 5, 2014
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Mar 2014
Rented Lady S to take my two boys deep sea fishing while vacationing at PCB. Chose this company based on great trip advisor reviews it had. It was very dissapointing.
The good:
1. Reservation process was very easy and staff was very friendly.
2. When we arrived to the pier at 7:00 am, staff was there and boat was ready to go.
3. Lady S is very clean and beatiful boat with adequate room and facilities.
4. It was an absolutely beatiful day for going out to fish. Weather was sunny and warm, waters very calm.
5. The boat staff was very friendly but unfortunately we did not experience great customer service that so many people have written about in their reviews.
The Bad:
1. We did a 5 hour boat ride and less than 1 hour of fishing.
Every time we stopped wehad to wait for the captain to sound a horn before we could fish. However, there were times he would sound another before boys even had a chance to cast their fishing rods into the water and we went for another ride.
Even in places where fish were biting, he would still interrupt fishing and move to a spot that was far away and certainly no better than previous place.
2.If there is still fish in the ocean, we did not see or catch it. The only two decent sized fish we cought we could not keep: one was out of season and the other was 2 inches too short of the required size.
We cought very few fish and they were so tiny we could have done better fishing off the pier. Nothing like the photos they show on their website.
3. The captain was in way too much hurry to return to shoar and almost brought us back 1 hour early. He finally realized he had made a mistake and that we had departed at 7 am not 6 am.
4. For us it was a big deal that we did not get to fish on our chartered fishing boat while vacationing. But the staff just made a very matter of fact commeny about " it's slow fishing". I would really call it "NO fishing" given over $800 price tag not including tip or fee for cleaning your fish. There were two guys at the pier who had fished for 4 hours and caught over 160 lbs of fish (the three of us had about 20 lbs).
5. The staff smoked on the boat with two kids on board. The stinch did not help their asthma or my sea sickness. He did stop after I said something.
Overall, it was very dissapointing and expensive boat ride. I think we could have done way better with another company. I would not recommend this company to anyone. Shop around for a better customer service, experience, and probably price.
The good:
1. Reservation process was very easy and staff was very friendly.
2. When we arrived to the pier at 7:00 am, staff was there and boat was ready to go.
3. Lady S is very clean and beatiful boat with adequate room and facilities.
4. It was an absolutely beatiful day for going out to fish. Weather was sunny and warm, waters very calm.
5. The boat staff was very friendly but unfortunately we did not experience great customer service that so many people have written about in their reviews.
The Bad:
1. We did a 5 hour boat ride and less than 1 hour of fishing.
Every time we stopped wehad to wait for the captain to sound a horn before we could fish. However, there were times he would sound another before boys even had a chance to cast their fishing rods into the water and we went for another ride.
Even in places where fish were biting, he would still interrupt fishing and move to a spot that was far away and certainly no better than previous place.
2.If there is still fish in the ocean, we did not see or catch it. The only two decent sized fish we cought we could not keep: one was out of season and the other was 2 inches too short of the required size.
We cought very few fish and they were so tiny we could have done better fishing off the pier. Nothing like the photos they show on their website.
3. The captain was in way too much hurry to return to shoar and almost brought us back 1 hour early. He finally realized he had made a mistake and that we had departed at 7 am not 6 am.
4. For us it was a big deal that we did not get to fish on our chartered fishing boat while vacationing. But the staff just made a very matter of fact commeny about " it's slow fishing". I would really call it "NO fishing" given over $800 price tag not including tip or fee for cleaning your fish. There were two guys at the pier who had fished for 4 hours and caught over 160 lbs of fish (the three of us had about 20 lbs).
5. The staff smoked on the boat with two kids on board. The stinch did not help their asthma or my sea sickness. He did stop after I said something.
Overall, it was very dissapointing and expensive boat ride. I think we could have done way better with another company. I would not recommend this company to anyone. Shop around for a better customer service, experience, and probably price.
Written April 10, 2014
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Aug 2017 • Family
We picked Captain Mike's Charters after reading all the good reviews but WOW, we did not have the same experience. It got off to a rocky start when the the first mate, greeted us and Caption Chris did not even get out of his chair. We all went in to greet him and he would not make eye contact because he was too busy playing a game on his phone. In fact he played games on his phone the whole 5 hours, was never personable or even attempted to converse with our group, rude by dissociation! The first mate was a little better but slept on the way out and way back for the most part. We paid a lot of money to catch a bunch of little fish we could have caught near the coast. Was very disappointing all around. When we got done we tipped over $100 and captain chris gave us a big snarl... again rude for little to no service. We hired charter guides every year but will NeVeR go back to this outfit!
Written September 18, 2017
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May 2013
Captain Mike was off for our charter so we had a fill in captain. We only ended up with trout size bottom fish that we could catch off a dock. his excuse was the amberjack have migrated. When we got back to the dock, all of t he other 8 hour charters had caught their limit in jacks, to include catching tuna. I don't recommend captain Mike and his crew if this is what he resorts to when he's off.
Written May 28, 2013
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Aug 2016 • Family
Maybe we built up this trip more than we should've,but considering the money I spent it was a total let down! We had a capt. that hadn't been at the chair for a while and did way too much driving around looking for the fish than we did actually fishing!! The first mate Matthew took our whopping 52 lbs of fish to be weighed,and for some reason decided to keep one of our fish for him self,my youngest farthest had caught the fish saw him sneak it back into the boat cooler???? Longer story short,would not use them again,would not refer them to any one !!!
Written August 13, 2016
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Aug 2014 • Family
Took a half day and it was a great day to spend out on the ocean. We can not control the flow of the fish out in the ocean. I will tell you this... CPT Mike and crew knows where to find them if they are out there.
Written August 31, 2014
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Feb 2014 • Business
Sometimes it is good to hear from another Captain that fishes day in and day out and has watched other captains. I have watched Captain Mike since he was a young man decking on some of the best charter boats in Florida. He has learned well from this experience and carries that experience over to his charters. I am a local native and charter boat owner myself and I know the time and dedication it takes to take care of your customers and Mike goes above and beyond to do so. If you are looking for a great charter I highly recommend Captain Mike Sullivan.
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Written February 20, 2014
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Sep 2013 • Friends
What an awesome experience we had with Captain Mike's crew. We actually ended up on Captain Hank's boat because Capt, Mike's had a problem, but boy am I spoiled now. No more 50+ people fishin trips for me and my family. The cost is almost the same and you get personalized service and tons more fishing time. We left at 6am and we were fishing by 7am and did not stop until noon. The chairs and fighting belts were great, but I never knew how much hard work it was to actually fish. I mean really fish. Everytime I dropped a line, we came up with at least one, sometimes two or three fish. It was what they called a "hat trick". I caught so many fish, I didn't have time to even drink a beer. had to wait and do that when we got back to dock while they were cleaning all our catch. I caught over 20 pounds of fish myself. Captain Hank and Captain Mike are the best!!!
Written September 24, 2013
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Do you add on single rides? By myself but want to join the trip!
Written April 24, 2015
When is the best month to catch snapper,dolphin or any other good eating fish and how many to the boat, and cost to charter?
I'm just full of questions.
Written March 21, 2015
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