Get Tight with Capt. Mike!

Fish On Your Own Boat with One of the Region’s Top Anglers

As a professional captain-for-hire, my job isn’t just to put you on fish while I’m on the boat — it’s also to teach you and your crew how to find and catch fish yourselves. You’ll learn more about:

• Patterning and locating fish

• Interpreting your electronics

• Handling/positioning your boat

• Selecting the right tackle

• Choosing and rigging baits and lures

• Fighting, gaffing, and handling fish

It’s not all about learning, though — we’ll also catch a bunch fish and have a great time!

Where we go and how we fish is up to you. I’ll meet you anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West and fish anywhere from your local reefs to the Bahamas, the Dry Tortugas, or Pulley Ridge. My specialties are:

• Swordfishing in South Florida and the Keys

• Wreck and reef fishing for snapper and grouper

• Deep dropping in South Florida, the Keys, the Bahamas, and Pulley Ridge

• Kite fishing and live baiting for sailfish, blackfin, mahi and other pelagics

• Live baiting yellowfin tuna in the Bahamas

• High speed trolling for wahoo

A Lifelong Passion

For me, this isn’t a job, it’s a passion. Starting when I was 6 or 7, my dad took me fishing out of Haulover Inlet every Saturday and Sunday — and quite a few weekdays too. We were out on the reef catching bait before dawn and then fished all day for snapper, grouper, kings, amberjack, mahi, tuna, and wahoo. Neither one of us would have traded those days for anything.

Today — as a grown man with a family of my own and fishing 5 to 7 days a week — I’m just as excited every time I clear the inlet as I was back then. Except that now it’s not just being on the water and catching fish — it’s also the excitement of teaching people what I’ve learned over the years and putting them on fish they’ll remember the rest of their lives.

I’m blessed to be able to earn a living doing something I love, and I’m incredibly grateful to the new and repeat clients who make that possible.

Now let’s go fishing!

Capt. Mike

Fish and Learn All Day for a Fraction of the Cost of a Charter

Prices are for a full day, dawn to dusk. I’ll fish as long as you want and conditions allow. Bahamas, Dry Tortugas, and Pulley Ridge require a two-day minimum.

• Local (Palm Beach to South Miami) — $600

• Local swordfish — $700

• Upper Keys — $700 ($800 swordfish)

• Middle/Lower Keys — $800 ($900 swordfish)

• Bahamas — $800

• Dry Tortugas — $800

• Pulley Ridge — $1,100