About Your Trip

Water Type

Skill Levels

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Weather

You won’t lose your deposit if the trip is canceled due to weather.

Gift your loved ones a truly memorable experience with a Sportfishing Excursion in Boca Grande! This gift is $100 toward fishing on any of our trips. You will receive a gift card in email to send or print and give to a friend, family member or employee. Gift Cards can be purchased for any amount, by contacting us. Reach us with booking questions

About Your Trip

Gift your loved ones a truly memorable experience with a Sportfishing Excursion in Boca Grande!

This gift is $100 toward fishing on any of our trips.
You will receive a gift card in email to send or print and give to a friend, family member or employee.

Gift Cards can be purchased for any amount, by contacting us.

Reach us with booking questions

Amenities

Water Type

Inshore, Nearshore, Flats

Skill Levels

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Tackle

All rods, reels, and tackle are included.

Fish Cleaning

This guide will clean your catch for you.

Beer

Feel free to enjoy responsibly, but please no glass.

Live Bait

Live bait is included for this trip.

Weather

You won’t lose your deposit if the trip is canceled due to weather.

Kid Friendly

This trip can cater to small children.

Disability Friendly

This trip can accommodate those with disabilities.

Physicality

This trip requires an average level of physical activity.

Boat Restroom

No, this boat does not have a bathroom on board.

Flexible Cancelation

The deposit for this trip is non-refundable.

Lunch

Please provide your own food / snacks.

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Pricing Matrix

	1 Hour
1 Person	$100.00
2 People	$100.00
3 People (Second Boat)	$200.00
4 People (Second Boat)	$200.00

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About Your Guide

Certified Damn Good Guides offer 10/10 trips. Guides earn this badge through quality reviews, quick and responsive communication, and low cancellation rates.

Yanni M.

Certified Damn Good Guide

Certified Damn Good Guides offer 10/10 trips. Guides earn this badge through quality reviews, quick and responsive communication, and low cancellation rates.

Outfitter

Quality

Adventurous

Laid-back

Beginner Oriented

Talkative

Instructional

About Your Guide

Yanni M.

Certified Damn Good Guide

Outfitter

I grew up as a kid coming to Boca Grande to our summer home each weekend to fish with Dad. Have a rich history of Tarpon fishing in our family. I love being out on the water especially night time, fishing for Tarpon, Snook and Permit with the best tackle to make it fun! I have the pleasure of taking out clients from all over the US and some from all over the world. Learning about their passion for fishing, travels, family, career and making sure that our fishing trip is memorable by catching Tarpon! Also giving the local tour and passing on all knowledge I have from growing up here. We fish hard and tailor each trip depending on the experience and personality of our guests. Boca Grande is a special place, add a Tarpon and you'll likely make a new favorite memory.

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Rapid Fire Guide Q & A

What’s the biggest fish you’ve caught?

Biggest fish is probably a 12 foot hammerhead shark I snagged on a snook rod. I think biggest fish on smallest equipment is a better measure, it's really fun to match the tackle to the fish, then any fish is fun. My most proud catch is a 44.5" Snook, that's my personal best from 2011.

If you were cooking for all your friends what would you cook?

Rabbit and hope they like it, because it's one of my favorite right there with steak and grouper or other flakey white fish. Sheepshead is a really underrated eating and fighting fish in Florida, probably the most underrated.

Rapid Fire Guide Q & A

What’s the biggest fish you’ve caught?

If you were cooking for all your friends what would you cook?

What’s your favorite band?

Green Day, Metallica, Beatles

What’s your favorite movie?

Pulp Fiction

What’s your favorite sports team?

I don't really follow sports any more as I used to be a die hard when I was younger. Now I find more satisfaction in playing the sport than watching. But i like certain athletes, Brett Favre was my favorite athlete to watch!

What’s your drink of choice?

Mojito and all of them in good company and at the right time. I don't drink on the boat ever but allow clients to responsibly.

What was your last halloween costume?

I don't do that, but would try if I had a good idea.

What do you want for Christmas this year?

Minimalist. But I'd take a 100 foot Yacht

How did you get started guiding?

Began going to Boca Grande to our beach home each weekend fishing with Dad as a kid. I was in Love with Boca Grande, it's my favorite place in the world still. I built my first fishing website in 1999 and picked up an ever more killer domain in 2010 to kick off the business with the name I wanted. Eventually started taking family and friends a lot and I started to fish a lot on my own at night each weekend and loved it. I started to have a lot of success after spending tons of time on the water alone. I saw others struggling with tarpon and snook and was catching more tarpon and bigger snook, and at the same time had a few people refer trips to me. I quickly got the USCG Captain's license and registered the company so I could be official and now we continue to expand with big expansions in 2018 and 2024. And while we specialize in Boca Grande I am opening up to locations all over Florida for Tarpon fishing and then sportfishing all over the world will be next.

What makes you different from other guides?

I know the value of money and how excited clients are and I want them to be thrilled, I do whatever it takes for them to enjoy their vacation. Obsessed, meticulous and I specialize only on Tarpon, Snook fishing and know these fish inside and out, although Permit are also a personal favorite. I am from the Greek island Crete and a Boca Grande native, so I grew up on islands surrounded by water and fishing is in my heritage.

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Start Location & Lodging Options

Boca Grande, Florida

Areas Fished

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

About Your Boat

Boat photo for Gift Card Family + Friends (1hr)

Boat Type: Bay Boat
Boat Length: 24'
Boat Restroom: No
Total Horsepower: 230

About Your Boat

Boat Type: Bay Boat
Boat Length: 24'
Boat Restroom: No
Total Horsepower: 230
Number of Engines: 1
Additional Amenities: Fighting Chair, GPS, Fishfinder, Live Bait Well, Wireless Trolling Motor, Ice Box, Radar

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Trip Details & Amenities

Water Type

Inshore, Nearshore, Flats

Skill Levels

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Tackle

All rods, reels, and tackle are included.

Fish Cleaning

This guide will clean your catch for you.

Beer

Feel free to enjoy responsibly, but please no glass.

Live Bait

Live bait is included for this trip.

Weather

You won’t lose your deposit if the trip is canceled due to weather.

Kid Friendly

This trip can cater to small children.

Disability Friendly

This trip can accommodate those with disabilities.

Physicality

This trip requires an average level of physical activity.

Boat Restroom

No, this boat does not have a bathroom on board.

Flexible Cancelation

The deposit for this trip is non-refundable.

Lunch

Please provide your own food / snacks.

Target Species

Color-coded seasonality below is based on .

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Get it while it's HOT!
This species is in play.
You might get lucky (as long as things are in-season).
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Techniques

Artificial Lure Fishing
Bottom Fishing
Cut Bait Fishing
Drift Fishing
Fly Fishing
Heavy Tackle Fishing
Jigging
Light Tackle Fishing
Live Bait Fishing
Sight Casting
Topwater Fishing

Everything Else to Know

Includes everything needed, just hop on board:
Florida fishing license, fishing tackle, bait and cold bottled water.
Feel free to bring along food/drinks in our cooler, sunglasses, sunscreen and long performance wear for the sun.

You're all set! You don't need to buy a license for this trip.

This trip is managed by an outfitter. Yanni will be your point of contact and you will go out with one of their guides.

We use a cashless autopay system. We'll send you a boarding pass, and on the day of the trip, your guide will scan your boarding pass to automatically transfer the remaining balance. The only cash needed is to tip your guide (we recommend 20%).

Cancel for free up to 14 days before the trip and receive credit back to your account. Cancelling within 14 of the trip will forfeit your deposit to the guide. Day-of cancellations and no-shows will be charged the full balance of the trip to their card.

In the event of inclement weather you'll be covered by out 100% Weather Guarantee and will not lose your deposit.

Reviews

5.0

based on 1 review

Dennis

Verified Review

May 15

Capt. Jacob put us on tarpon early and often. One hook-up and quickly gone after one nice leap from the water. We had our chances early with plenty of fish around. Jacob kept up the hunt and our lack of fly casting wasn't a problem for the Captain. After we got more comfortable, we were able to land this nice tarpon on a fly. Something I have dreamed about for...

Dennis

Verified Review

May 15

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Trip: Tarpon Full Day (6hr)

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Once you've paid your deposit at checkout, we'll send you a QR Code boarding pass. Just show your guide your boarding pass on the day of the trip, they'll scan it, the remaining balance will transfer automatically, and you'll be all set to get out there. Just make sure you bring a cash tip for the guide!

In the event of inclement weather, our guides will check the conditions and make the final call on whether its safe to go on the trip. If they decide the trip needs to be postponed, we'll work closely with you to reschedule or provide a credit for the full deposit, which can be applied to any of our trips in the US and beyond.

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