re: Advice on charter boat captains

Some guide like to mess around and play the deposit game. Screwing with people's hard earned $$$ is bad business. The last few guides I have booked trips with didn't even take deposits. "I'm not in the business of taking deposits" seemed to be the standard response when I asked about one. The fact that you were a multi-trip multi-year customer of this dbag and he still screwed you like that speaks volume about his valuation of you and your checkbook. The few people I know that have been in the charter business for years all say the same thing "if the customers aren't happy you'll never make it." I've had great trips with Bill Lake, Tommy Pellegrin, Chris Moran, and josh Ellender. I've got a trip next month with frank drehr who I've heard good things about (no deposit required)