My husband and I went fishing on the Zeke's lady party fishing boat , the 6-hour tour . they left at 7:00 in the morning and got back at 1:00 in the afternoon . we drove for about 2 hours, fished for 2 hours, and drove 2 hours back.
the fishing was really good . we caught several red snapper, vermillion Snapper, and triggerfish. it's not trigger fish season, so we had to throw those back. most of the red snapper were too small but we were able to keep one. there were only two red snapper caught on the whole boat that we could keep and we had caught one of them. We csught four vermillion Snapper that were big enough to keep.
the fishing was fun and the fish were biting. you didn't have to wait very long for them to bite, so it was a good experience . also the sea was pretty calm today and no one got sick, which is always a bonus .
the boat had 44 people just one person shy of full and I was told that all of us caught 199 fish and the average for them is about 170 , so it seems like our boat did pretty well .
while we were fishing we saw several dolphins, a couple of sharks and some flying fish.
once we got back to port they called out the names assigned to the fish that we caught and then we took it to the cleaning station. my husband and I only had caught five fish and we got behind this group of eight that had caught 46 fish. It took forever to get those cleaned !!
AS A RECOMMENDATION for zekes lady party fishing boat , I would recommend if you only have two deckhands cleaning the fish, have one for groups and one like an express lane where people with less than five fish get to go first because it only takes a few minutes for a few fish to fillet them out. It took us about 45 minutes of standing there with just one group in front of us.
the deckhands do expect a tip and they come around with a tip jar and shake your hands and thank you and they were pretty good. then you have to pay for the filet part; ours was $10.