Took my brother in law and his two boys, who are visiting from TX, on an off shore trip with Capt Mark.  He and his boys have never been off shore fishing.  Capt Mark was awesome!  We reeled them in left and right!  The boys caught fish they had only seen on TV.  As a local, I try to charter a fishing trip once a year when family/friends come to town and the entire family was well fed with Spanish Mackerel at the end of the day.  I would charter again with Capt Mark.

We scheduled our fishing trip on our last day of vacationing in St. Pete Beach. The weather forecast kept changing the rain percentages that day. Captain Maloney contacted me the day before to discuss the weather and we settled on meeting at 0900 instead of 0700 to wait out the rain.
When we arrived, everything was ready to go. There was some rain when we were heading out but thankfully it was short-lived. To our benefit, the water wasn’t rough either. Shortly after we got out there the clouds burned off and the sun came out and heated things up quickly. It ended up being great weather for the rest of the day.
When we finally got to our spot, rods and reels were ready to go and there was plenty of bait. We caught several fish, some keepers and some just short of keeping so they were released. We caught grunt, amberjack, barracuda, and a couple of others I can’t recall at the moment. My two sons (17 and 12) must have had the magic touch that day because they are the ones that caught the majority of the fish. Of course we hoped for a few more big fish, but were happy that we at least walked away with a nice big fish dinner (I say 1 dinner because I’m feeding 3 teen boys and a spouse, otherwise it would be 2-3 meals for a couple). We had a great time enjoying the water and fishing with Captain Maloney. Will definitely use again on our next vacation to St. Pete Beach.

We made memories today with our grandsons thanks to a successful fishing day with Captain Mark..our boys could not wait to eat the King Fish they caught. Sure they will return to Iowa with fish stories to brag about.  You will not be disappointed.🎏😁❣

We live a long way from the ocean in Wyoming so we had never fished in the ocean of any sort before.  Captain Mark did a great job.  We only wish we would have booked the full day trip.  We caught several types of fish throughout the day.  It was lots of fun and my whole family say they want to do it again.

We booked a half day trip and couldn’t be more pleased.  Caught a lot of great fish that cooked up great for dinner.  Awesome trip for adults or children.  Highly recommended!