Sweet Jody Fishing

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Great fun activity for vacation if you want a day off the beach. We loved it. Relaxing!

I went on a charter with Sweet Jody Fishing with my brother and a friend. The fishing experience wasn't exceptional nor poor, but the deck hands we had to deal with. . . WOWThey mention at the beginning of the charter that the initial price is cheaper because the deck hands work for tips, and tell you that $35 is what is expected from each person on the charter. Ok, fine. The five or six times they RANTED about it through the trip were unnecessary.More than once myself, or someone I saw, had a question for one of the deck hands. Species identification, catch limits etc. . . They generally offered rude responses if any at all. I caught a fish, brought it up and asked one of the gentleman what it was. He didn't answer me, only proceeded to club the fish five or eight times (still on the hook! the fish wasn't flopping around on deck or anything) and then fling it back telling me 'not a keeper.' I knew it wasn't a keeper, but I still asked a question!As we began heading back, someone obviously said something one of the deck hands didn't like. This threw him into an at least 20 minute (we timed it for 20, not sure how long it was going before we got there) rant about how his services are unappreciated. He kept going on about how 'if ya'll don't like it you can go somewhere else.' This wasn't a conversation that he had with a few people, I went up on the upper deck to get away from it, and even with him leaning on the back rail of the boat, I could still clearly hear him.We get back to shore. . . fish cleaning is included in the charter, and everyone knows it's going to take awhile. The fact that the deck hands were taking swigs of Crown Royal aside. . . the guy goes on ANOTHER RANT! He spent a good 12-15 minutes cussing and going on about how 'ya'll don't need all this f*ing fish.' He also complained that people kept too much fish saying 'it's about the experience, not feeding your family for a f*ing month.'One of the deckhands was slightly less vulgar and rude as the other, we were glad he was the one who cleaned our fish. . . the other guy was leaving obviously large portions on the carcasses. Yes, he was fast, but he was leaving a significant amount of meat on every fish he filleted. Again, our big issue was that all these items were not side comments made to one or two people, these were discussed in a raised voice for everyone to hear. If this had been an establishment we could've walked out of, we would have!

We had a wonderful week of fishing Ma 11-19th. The crew was great, friendly and very polite. I had the best birthday Friday catching lots of fish not to mention the large snapper I caught. Even though we couldn't keep him it was great. We can't wait to return for another week of fishing. Special thanks to the Captain and the crew! Looking forward to fishing on the Sweet Jody again.