Double D Charters

Captain Dean is a no nonsense serious fisherman. He fishes over 300 days a year and all the big sailfish tournaments with 30 years of charter experience. He fishes out of 34ft Sea Vee with twin 300 Mercury Verados, awesome fishing boat. My six year old son and I chartered him for a three quarter day charter. We left the dock at exactly 7:00 am and headed to get bait.
The usual routine for live bait kite fishing in south Florida is to get fresh bait on your way out. We bought goggle eyes and pilchards from the bait boat. We then caught our own threadfin herring. This takes time but is well worth it to get fresh live bait.
Since Dean had fished a tournament the day before (his team took third), he had a good line on where the hot bite was happening. We ran far south down near Fowery Light. This is why half day trips are not really a good idea for this type of fishing.
We caught a double header of sailfish, a double of Mahi, several Bonita, and a pig blackfin tuna. We also had a couple other knock downs of sails and kingfish that didn’t get the hook.(that’s fishing)
We had a great time. The captain and mate worked their butts off to put us on the fish. If your looking for super entertaining jolly captain, Dean is not the guy. He is a serious hard working captain who wants to catch fish. I would recommend doing a full day charter. We did a three quarter day since I didn’t know how my son would do on the blue water. My son was asking when we could fish with them again by the time we pulled out of the marina.