re: Deep Sea Fishing

Southern Pride Charters out of Wakeside in Grand Isle is going to be running some "Walk-on" trips again. They have a couple 12 hour Bottom Trips scheduled, about $200-250 per person. They also have 3-36 hour tuna trips and 2-36 hour bottom trips scheduled for $650 per person. It's a fun time, my son and I are will probably do a 36 hour btm trip. He has 14 new electric reels if you just wanna load the boat, or if you want to fight them you can do that too.

I messaged them a couple days ago and this is what they sent me.

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Hey ?????. I’m sorry I’m just seeing your message.
These are the dates of our 36 hour trips:

June 6/7 - Tuna Fishing
June 20/21- Bottom Fishing
July 10/11- Tuna Fishing
July 19/20- Bottom Fishing
August 6/7 - Tuna Fishing

For the walk on bottom 10-12 hour trips, I only have 2 scheduled for now. We will plan a few more later. I usually fill them in where we don’t book private charters.
Thursday, June 8
Monday, June 19

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They will put 30 people on the boat for day trips, for the 36 hour trips they only take about half that.

Eddie with Fish Venice is doing some "Create a Crew" trips once a month per their Facebook page.

Shhhhiiii. I feel you on that, my butthole puckers everytime I pull my 300 yami to the pump. I'm lucky to be able to afford to go fishing 2 days a month.

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Do any of you guys realize the price of owning an offshore boat ????

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Yup. Hell, even just 1 year of insurance is more than a charter trip would be.

Eh…if you can afford it and fish often enough, they’re worth owning IMO.

I agree with all of what you said lol. Yeah people get sticker shock, but honestly the pricing for a charter trip is pretty fair considering the expenses and long hours that go into running a charter.

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But they are alot of work to maintain especially with trips and quads whewww..

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Tell me about it lol. Feel like every time I fix something it’s another $3k down a hole