The Dynamic Duo of Chad and Nano are fantastic! Professional, Punctual and Purposeful. All advanced communications were clear and specific which led us to the docking position, and allowed us to arrive prepared for whatever was to happen. They had ice available for our personal beverages, and had assisted with loading our coolers and with boarding the boat safely. 

Chad and Nano provided a great safety briefing that calmed the nerves of a few of my group (only 2 of us out of 5 in the group could swim lol). We launched at 8am on the dot, and were LITERALLY fishing in open waters at 8:11am, and caught our first catch at 8:37am! 🔥

Chad and Nano were super friendly and fun, and educated us about everything we could imagine which made the experience even more exciting and rewarding as we spent the full excursion FISHING! Thanks Gents we WILL BE BACK! 💯

I took my 10-year-old out for his first charter fishing boat experience and The Old Hat did not disappoint.  The boat was ready as were the poles and rigs. The first mate Nano was fantastic as was Chad the captain. I braced my son for the possibility that we might not catch fish, after all, it is called fishing and not catching. But these guys have now ruined him, he caught 3 King fish, 5 Bonita, 2 Barracuda, and multiple other fish we had to throw back including a sailfish. Great experience and an Epic day.

Got a text from Captain Chad that the water was choppy and he was going to leave it up to us if we wanted to still go out. We really appreciated the heads up!

We are SO glad that we did decide to go out!!!!! We had a BLAST and caught some amazing fish!

Both Captain Chad and his first mate (Nano), were very knowledgeable. They knew the spots to go to give us the best chances of catching something. And boy did we catch a variety!!! Even got to see a whale shark!

Make sure you listen to them… fishing deep sea is much different than fishing in a lake (the only place we had ever fished). And in rough water, listen to them when they say don’t go into the cabin because it makes any seasickness worse. Haha

No one puked, everyone had an AMAZING time and we would do it all over again!!!

Thank you for helping us make some great family memories!!

The Ward Family

My family and I went out on the Old Hat boat and got into some tuna right away. I think at one point we had three fish on lines at once. It was so exciting!  Sadly, we decided to end our trip early due to seasickness, but we were not disappointed with our 12 fish catch!  It was so fun and I definitely recommend this boat, captain and crew.

We all had a great time on our fishing trip! The crew was knowledgeable and fun and made the experience truly memorable. We caught my mahi mahi which is what I was after and a king mackerel and had some fun with some of the sharks. It was a great time and we would all love to come out with the old hat charter again.