We went on the morning half day with Boa Vida.  Our only goal was to catch enough fish for that nights dinner for six.  We also wanted to try some off shore fishing for some the larger game fish.  Our Captain Sean suggested we try reef fishing first and get our fish for dinner. We caught a bunch of yellowtail snapper and then headed out to try for the bigger fish. It was a bit rough but Sean and first mate Jason handled the boat and rods extremely well and we were able to pull in a couple of Mahi-Mahi. The crew filleted the fish expertly and we went home with more than enough fish for dinner. We went to Half Shell Raw Bar as they suggested and had a great dinner. This was a highlight of our Key West vacation and cannot recommend Boa Vida Charters more.  From ease of booking, communication and service they are first rate.

Captain Maryann and First Mate Sean are really awesome people and are also very good fishing guides.  If we hadn’t caught a single fish, we still would have had a great day on the water with them.  They are patient, professional, and took the time to teach us to fish with a variety of techniques.  We had not fished in the keys previously.  I am so glad that we booked a 3/4 day trip.  It gave us plenty of time to fish for Yellowtail Snapper and then troll for larger fish.  We managed to bring in 3 really nice sized barracuda, several, beautiful bonita, a couple of cero mackerel, a hard fighting, big king mackerel that make several runs & then managed to get away just short of the boat, and the yellowtail as well.  If we make it back to the Keys in the future, we will definitely be giving MaryAnn a call to schedule another fishing trip!

It was My 2 daughters and my wife’s birthday week. One of my daughter (in the Cost Guard) was temporarily stationed down in the keys during her birthday so we decided to drive from St Pete to Key West to Help Celebrate her birthday and she wanted to go fishing, so we booked with Boa Vida. When we met our crew, they greeted use with a smile, then took our beverages, snacks and put them in their cooler witch was great because nobody wants warm beer and warm chicken sandwich’s. Sean gave us a quick rundown of the days event and we set off.  Now the ride was a little rough because of the previous day weather and water was a little cloudy so our captain (Sean) did his very best to help us catch some fish. He tried going to different spots and trolling for about 2 and 1/2 hrs with no luck, so I was starting to think we were going back empty handed. But our Captain and first mate (Jason) was having none of that. They found us a spot and chummed the water. Jason bated a hook and gave the rod to Andrea my son-in-law to cast, Jason started beating the second rod for Afeiyah my daughter, Andrea caught a fish, Then Afeiyah casted out as Jason was taking the fish of the hook Afeiyah caught one and that’s how it was for about 15 minutes until I got a rod and casted in. In the span of 30 minutes, we caught over 40 yellow tail snapper we took home 36 as a few were too small and had to throw back. The Team at Boa Viad made sure we had fun, made us feel welcome and that this birthday week was memorable. At the end of our trip the crew fillet and cleaned our catch. Maryann came out to see how things went OfCourse it went well.  Thank you and we will see you in October.

We had a great day with Boa Vida Charters.
Sean and Jason were great. They took great care of our party of 4. Within 2 hours of leaving the dock we each had a Mahi in the box.
Capt. Maryann was waiting for us at the dock when we came in to meet us and make sure everything went well.
We will definitely book another trip with them next year.

We did a 3/4 day, and were catching pretty much nonstop the whole time. Wide variety of species. We caught our limit in yellowtail, caught a large king mackerel and numerous nice groupers. My 9 year-old son caught a goliath grouper in the 250-300 lb range that was the highlight of the trip!

Highly recommend! We’ll definitely be back!