Our Story

 

Sally and Ronnie are both native Floridians!

Ronnie grew up in St. Pete and started fishing the local waterways as a young boy. His entire childhood and young adult life was spent fishing all around the gulf coast of Florida. During the summer months, he would work and run fishing charters. Ronnie would sometimes go on commercial fishing trips with his buddies who owned commercial vessels. Ronnie went to dive school and spent 20 years travelling the world sat diving and specializing in underwater welding.

Sally grew up in Miami and always had a love for boats and anything on the water! The extent of her fishing experience was fishing the canals in Miami as a young girl and fishing for mahi off the coast of South FL on her sister and brother in law's boat. When Sally met Ronnie in 2019, she had no idea what she was about to experience and learn about offshore fishing! Her first fishing trip with Ronnie was in May of that year to the "Otherside." It was an epic trip as they found a beautiful 5 mile long weed line stacked with fish! They caught 12-13 mahi and would have caught more if they could get more than 5 lines in the water at a time. Sally thought every fishing trip would be that successful! Five years later, Sally has joined Ronnie on 50+ offshore fishing trips including a 14-day fishing trip to Cat Island, San Salvador, and Crooked Island in the Bahamas where she caught her first Blue Marlin! She has also been on some epic wahoo trips where we went 5 for 5, 6 for 8, and 8 for 10!

We got married on the beach at sunset on Anna Maria Island in March of 2021 with a small gathering of family and friends. We spent our honeymoon in the Keys (due to the times) and found our dream boat by chance! This boat, a 2020 39' Contender, had been spoken for months prior and had 2 others waiting to buy it if that deal fell through. When Ronnie saw it on the side of the road on our way out of the Keys, we pulled over to check it out. After a brief talk with the salesman, we went across the street to the tiki bar and Sally said to Ronnie, "Tell me one reason why we shouldn't buy this boat!" We ended up beating out a walk in cash buyer by 15 minutes that late afternoon and the rest is history!

Ronnie and Sally enjoy fishing and boating together which includes tournaments and fun fishing! We also enjoy going down island Bahamas in May and June for the Blue Marlin run.

Ronnie is a highly skilled angler and has caught 30+ swordfish (largest 376 lbs.), 20+ Blue Marlin, and hundreds of yellowfin tuna and wahoo (largest 96 lbs.). He is still hunting that triple digit wahoo and nickel swordfish (500+ lbs.)!!

We have taken our passion for fishing and now run charters off the east coast of Florida. We specialize in fishing for yellowfin tuna (running and gunning chasing birds which lead us to the yellowfin), swordfish, and wahoo. We do swordfish trips year-round and do both high-speed trolling and live baiting for wahoo from October to March. We also fish for mahi when we run across weed lines and when the conditions are right.

We love our 2020 39' Contender and look forward to helping you fulfill your dream of having fun while landing big fish!