Ultimate Fish Charters

«Get a life back wherever you came from»??? This is a comment left by Joe B. with this company in response to a negative review. I don’t care what the reason, you do NOT treat people like that. In my search for a fishing charter to book with in my upcoming trip to the Santa Cruz area I will most certainly NOT be booking with a company that feels it’s ok to personally attack and insult their customers when they disagree!

Tom, the owner of Ultimate Fish Charters, is not a seasoned business owner, he runs his business, but never cares to listen to his customers, and so is his captain. According to him, be it Larry, or Adam, or me, we all were degenerate enough to not be able to figure out how to work with his company, so he will just reply to our reviews not on their substance but on a personal level, bashing us all around.
And yes, thank you, I came from far away and I am staying here with other as you put it foreigners, including Unilocal ones, and you can go back to wherever you came from, or do you really think that you are for some unknown incomprehensible reason, in the country with centuries of immigration, more American than I? Why won’t you channel your energy and precious time at improving your business, and not finding sorry excuses to your abysmal performance. You carry on with excuses forgetting that you are serving the customer, and if we are telling you you suck, then you do.
Sir, I am augmenting my rating of your business to 1 lonely star, I want to see you guys to learn from your mistakes, and clearly you are not. And, congratulate me, I got a huge salmon with reelsportfishing charter this year, yam!

The good: killer boat! The bad: If I pay 140 to fish, then I want to fish. Cap Brad told us that no one would be allowed to grab the fishing rod when bit. He said he and his deckhand would be grabbing the rod to set the hook and then handing off the rod to customers. Reeling down on fish is not hard. Anyone can do it with 2 minutes of instruction. I hated not being able to fish!!!
At the end of the day, Cap Brad called us together and told all of us to tip 25 bucks to the deckhand. He said «Look, I don’t pay this guy squat, so tip him between 20 — 30 bucks.» I have no problem tipping. I do have a problem with the captain and deckhand doing all the fishing and then requesting that I leave a big tip!
Will not return.

Wow I’m really surprised the bad reviews here. THIS IS FISHING PEOPLE! There is no guarantee you will catch anything. But to give someone a bad review because you didn’t catch a salmon, but limited out on something else is stupid! And to have someone get sea sick and get mad because they wont go back is dumb. Its called DRAMAMINE, use it. That’s like giving a bad review to a casino for taking your money!
Anyway, my dad has used Brad a dozen of times and is his go to guy in SC. My boyfriend and I went with him one time, and while we didn’t catch much we had a good time. At no time did a felt unsafe, nor a speck of unprofessionalism. It’s not Brads fault we didn’t catch fish, he definitely tried though, and went out of his way to make us feel comfortable. My dad is going next week, and I wish I can go with him!
Understand that this is fishing. Yes, you might pay 100 – 200 bucks and not catch anything, or you might limit out in an hour… it all depends. Bring Dramamine, an open mind, and have some fun. Cause you will with Brad.
**please read the filtered reviews too!!! All the good ones seem to be there**

Five of us booked Ultimate Fishing Charter for a salmon fishing outing. The first communication was that salmon fishing was very slow and he was changing the the charter without asking from salmon to rock cod. The group as a whole stated we wanted to go salmon fishing first. Big mistake… here is what happened
First the boat was not ready to leave @ 6:00 am… we arrived at 5:55 am a little late but they should have been ready to go… no sense of urgency. On pulling out @ 6:40 am the captain hit the boat next to us… the start of a bad day on the water. As part of the protocol we all drew for first through 6^th (another guy joined us we did not know) So the captain decided to go to an area that no one was fishing as a shot in the dark… there were no boats within 2 miles of us… wonder why??? no salmon… surprise. Also there was some relationship between the other guy and the captain as he told him that 2 of the rods on the down riggers were his… what the F…
The fishing was slow overall but over the radio they were landing some fish around soquel hole which is where everyone was at… his response was that it was too crowded and he did not want to go there. Finally after 1.5 hours it was about 9:00 and the guys decided maybe we should go after some rock fish… captains brad’s response was you guys wanted to go salmon fishing and that is what we are going to do… flat out.
In the back of the boat the mate apologized for this and stated he did not know what was going on… we finally moved to another area (about 45 min) and there we actually a few boats around… maybe 4 – 5 within 1 mile (changed the range on the radar). We fished for about an hour and then captain brad said maybe we should try some rock fish like he was giving us his wisdom… on the pulling in one of our group not on the the other guy’s 2 pole gift hooked up and we decided to salmon fish. About 20 min later the other guy on the trip hooked up with a very large fish and was having a physical problem in managing the fish… the mate tried to help and that is when he got fouled and lost the fish.
I could go on with some more things but at this point I believe the gest of the trip is pretty much patterned.
In finishing all I can say is book at your own risk as there is no customer service from this captain and as previously stated money is his only thing… never again from our group.

Good job. The captain knows where to find fish. They tried their best to find us some fish, and they came through. Good job!