Salty Jig Charters in Freeport, Florida

A very disappointing experience today. I understand that it is impossible to guarantee fish, but a professional guide should, at the least, have live bait to fish with. He did attempt to catch some beforehand and during our trip with no success. Should have bought some live bait. Fishing with dried squid and trolling for saltwater catfish doesn’t cut it with me. Yes, I did leave him a nice tip. Hal Land …

Please save your money and book a professional guide. We booked a trip with “Captain Sloan” due to the original trip having to be rescheduled. We are experienced fishermen and know freshwater fishing pretty well. We have never heard of a guide not having bait before your booked trip started. We spent an hour of our booked time riding around looking for bait. Then we got bossed around like peasants doing his bidding driving the boat and picking up what little piddly bait he did catch with his cast net. You would assume that if going out and catching live bait with a cast net was a regular thing for this “professional” he would be proficient at it… WRONG! He fumbled around and barely cleared the deck throwing it and it barely opened most of the time. The whole time he acts like he’s dying of heat stroke and saying he’s gonna have a heart attack and seemed so exhausted from just throwing the net. We pulled up at a few spots and would maybe catch a 10” fish here and nothing for the next 30-45 min. Then he would decide to move. That should have been done 15 min after sitting in a spot with no luck using live bait. Overall he put 2 guys on 3- 8-10” redfish, 2- piddly 8-10” catfish he stated “taste like shit and that he’s allergic to because he got spines once and they make him sweat”, and 1 stingray the size of a paper plate he was deathly afraid of. Let’s go on to say his boat is literally falling apart. The top tower is literally broken away from the center console. The feet of the tower were bouncing up and down off of the floor with the screws loose. The motor is severely too small for his size boat. The lid to his bait live well about fell off due to the screw holes being rotted out and it was hanging on by 1 hinge. You’d figure a guy who does this for a living would do some upkeep and maintainance on his livelihood. The deck of the boat was dirty with pine needles and pine cones where it looked like it had been sitting up in a yard for months. Completely a HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE!!! DO NOT BOOK THIS GUY!!! …