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Captain Zach is AMAZING! My husband and I are used to fishing in a lake so we are green horns to fishing in the ocean (first time). Captain Zach was so patient with us when reeling in our Red Drum fish. He made us feel so comfortable, I was very impressed and appreciated his knowledge. We are SOOO happy that we booked our fishing trip with "Red Finn Charters" with Captain Zach Vann. We highly recommend and plan to make it a tradition to fish with him in all future Outer Banks vacation trips! AND we had SO MUCH FUN! It was so exciting when my husband reeled in a 50 inch Red Drum fish and Captain Zach talked him through it. Thank you for a great and memorable experience!

This place is good to find a guide, most important thing is too get ahold of the captain, you can do this on this site! Another competitor you just get someone that may just be AI and disappear if you ever have problems, they have people you can get in touch with here, atleast they will get you guides to get in contact with not answering say I want to get Mahi and say yeah all these guides do, they do say that but they say ask the captain, that is who really knows what is going on. Site is good showing what is included, you can check what is biting however that isn't accurate but its something good to look at or it shows targeted species, but just get ahold of lots of captains see who responds the correct way to your questions, half of then never respond, which is horrible. They are too good to take your money, which the site has to do something about that, have captains get like a email like I got for this review several times to give a review, make the captain respond to your questions. Prices compared to another is cheaper, think they do match? Not sure but booking again soon for another trip with same guide I had, he was incredible. So the most important thing is contacting the captain, you can do that here, and again get ahold of many as possible, half will not respond at all, another half will give you a vague answer then a small percentage will give you answer you want, for me I had to contact 50 and narrowed it down to 6, then to 2, then it was easy to go to one with what was included in the trip. I have booked with this one and the competition you have good and bad guides so learn from the bad, think most of them are on both sites, don't allow anyone to get ahold of the captain for you, they do not do this here, you can ask they read on a few and give you the guides, they pick them for what you are asking but say ask the captain, not sure why another doesn't allow this until you pay, sounds very much a scam

Recently booked a fishing trip through FishingBooker in Mexico. Ordinarily I wouldn't go through a broker for something like this, as my experience has been that their added services aren't worth their fees. However, this time I was proven completely wrong. I apparently had a misunderstanding with the boat captain, and when I arrived home, I realized that he had overcharged me. My initial efforts to resolve the issue directly with him didn't go anywhere. As I knew that FishingBooker took their fees upfront, and I paid the balance directly to the captain, I figured that was probably it, as money didn't change hands between the broker and the charter boats. However, Maria and Chloe at FishingBooker "went to bat" for me and ultimately were able to issue me a refund for the overcharged amount. (Hopefully they will be able, somehow, to recover these monies from the boat captain.) All in all, a much better experience than I have had in the past with brokers. If the opportunity arises in the future, I will definitely book through them again.

BUYER BEWARE! My 15 year old was very ill and the captain said we could cut the trip short and he would only charge us for the time used (3 hours start to finish). We agreed to go back to the marina and the captain said, please take care of the first mate-$200-doing that anyways-he then said he had to call the owner and proceeded to say he couldn't charge us for time used! VERY dishonest. Felt like a giant scam and definitely not the first time they pulled this one. Paid $1300. The captain and first mate fished the first two hours and caught NOTHING! Very interesting how "everything" ate their bait. The boat was also very dirty and uncomfortable. Lastly, the owner of the boat told me this was "my problem" and the captain knows the policies so we need to get our money back from him. If you have any ethics or morals, please chose another charter, there are MANY. FishingBooker customer service (Janette) refused to help me with this situation after repeated requests! These people are frauds!