Deep Dropping

Review of Arts Adventures

My group of 4 (flew to florida) chartered this b...

My group of 4 (flew to florida) chartered this boat July 2016 for good reviews,we arrived on time, no captain, no ice, no fuel (things should've been done prior to boarding the boat) it took about 2 hours to get the boat ready.then we moved out, shortly we got into a school of AJs and got our limit in about 30 minutes,,awsome, then a long ride, second stop we didn't fish, third stop,the mate handled 2 rods to 2 of us only, then he and the captain started fishing while the other 2 of us sitting and watching, after 10 minutes I asked the mate why he didn't give us rods to fish, his answer "there is nothing you can do more than us, we are just trying this area to see whats in here" then I asked the captain, his answer "we don't have rigs", really? so they have gear for themselves to fish while their customers are sitting and watching, how rude is this? this continued for 45 minutes, we didn't pay them to watch them fishing while we dont have gear to fish with especially when we see many rods in the boat but they just didn't want us to fish, by this time i was very upset & lost interest, i made my dissatisfaction very clear to both the mate and the captain several times, a person in my group also did talk to the captain,then the captain tried to make things better,another long ride to the final area which held fish,i had an agreement with the captain to use my electric reel at the time of booking,the mate refused and to everbody's surprise he prevailed over the captain making us wonder,who is really in charge here?so i was given one of their outfits,first big fish the line broke off, i complained the outfit is not working properly,i was given another older one, minutes later the mate cut my main line due to tangle and retied, second big fish and the line breaks off again right at the knot the mate just tied, if i had been allowed using my own reel/line this would not have happened. I was astonished they took this second outfit and gave me the old broken one back?! Wow, wow,wow, as if they dont have but this broken gear onboard , the fact they dont want you to use their better ones.my friends reel didnt work properly either, but didnt say anything, we just gave up on them . Very tedious operation,poor gear, no ready to use rigs were available, several tackle failures, captain didnt come forth on his word,arrogant mate, i fished the entire east coast of the us,never had such bad treatment and horrible experience,. The mate knew they did us wrong,he came to apologize when we got back, way too late,,his apology is NOT accepted,you just don't screw people, ruin their vacation ,then you try to aplogize especially when we brought up the issue more than 5 times throughout the trip, if they were sincere,they would've made it right when we were on the water,they did not.Never again!