Bunky’s Charter Boats

Bunky’s Charter Boat is located in Solomons Island on a cute little town strip with stores restaurants and Tiki bars. And nice day get away if you just want to get out the city. There is a pier where u can also fish off if u don’t want to pay for the charter boat. Ok with that been said the day I went 7÷25÷2015 the main boat didn’t have a working restroom on it so thankful I got to ride on the smaller boat which they call their over flow boat. The young ladies that took us out was very friendly and great helpers. But I still can believe the big boat went out with no RESTROOM with 33 people on board for 5 hours WOW. The boat leaves at 3pm and u return 8pm. They also have a morning run don’t know the time. The cost was $ 45 and if u need a rod $ 5 extra not bad.

I’m not usually one to write reviews. But I purchased a groupon a year ago for a charter fishing experience to troll for rockfish. Waste of money and time!!! The captains were both so clearly inexperienced. We would troll for 10−15min and then move to another spot. That is NOT how you troll for rockfish. They weren’t even enthusiastic or positive or entertaining. The boat was dead silent. They didn’t communicate with any of the 10 people on the boat or bothered to ask us for input like most capts would if they were catching nothing. We also got caught in a crab pot at some point and it took forever to untangle. They had the passengers reeling in lines for them bc the mate couldn’t do it all on his own… Most of the ppl on the boat fell asleep most of the time. We ended up catching NOTHING. Everyone left disappointed and quite frustrated and angry. I would look elsewhere for a charter experience. Haven’t tried their head boat experience yet.

My fishing charter for striped bass was a HUGE disappointment. It started with our 19-​year old captain showing up late and got worse. The capt and crew clearly lacked experience. The setting up of our trolling lines took an incredibly long time and our one fish caused a line tangle that took an hour to sort out. We spent over half of the trip in unproductive deep water setting up and resetting lines! In addition, the captain clearly lacked the experience to try different locations or techniques to find fish. I believe it was a tough day for most, but we did not even try different locations or fishing depths. The trip wrapped up with our hitting another boat while attempting to dock on our return.

Awesome charter boats. The biggest drawback is they do not pre sell tickets so you may show up and they not have enough people to go out. They will let the people buy out the remainder of the boat or just wait like we did and more people ended up coming. The crew Mitch and colby were awesome. They taught us how to filet fish and we’re very helpful. I will be back many more times. Oh and alcohol is allowed on the boat.