re: Tuna Charters

Going rate for tuna trips is going to be ~$1400/ day + fuel. Some charters offer a trip with fuel included for ~$2/2.2k. If you just want to go offshore, rig trips(sans red snapper) will be a bit cheaper. I like to pay fuel at the end of the trip because not every trip requires a 300 mile round trip. Trips in late August/ September and October tend to have th ehighest liklihood of getting a good bite closer to shore but its not guaranteed either...

Most of the bad operations have been fleeced out after Katrina and BP but there's still a number of guys I just don't like. I won't mention them by name but will mention the ones I do. You couldn't go wrong with any of the following:

Eddie Berger and Lee McLean
Billy Wells
Hunter Cabellero and Scott Leger
Lance Walker
William Wall -- he'd probably be my preference
Al Walker
Mike Ellis

That's the short list but there's more I'd go with that I just didn't mention...