Captain Rich gave my 17 year old son and I the perfect intro to gulf fishing. This was our first time out on salt water and we targeted red grouper for the most part. We were pulling up fish so fast that we could barely keep the hooks baited. The boat is small-ish, but perfect for the task. We could have easily fit another two or three people. We hooked into three sharks during the day, but they were big and we couldn’t get them any closer to the boat before they bit through the line. I would definitely recommend a 6 hour trip or longer. It took an hour and a half to reach our location, which means you’re down to three hours of fishing by the time it’s said and done. Captain Rich is an awesome guide. Great personality, teaching along the way and letting you manage your own fish. Be prepared to catch a lot of fish and haul in some nice grouper. Next time I go out, I look forward to targeting some larger species - I was sorry I never got a look at those sharks, but we were definitely outgunned - it felt like trying to reel in a whale!

When we arrive at the boat captain rich all ready to go. I was a little apprehensive because you never know how a captain is going to feel about bringing your 7 year old son on an offshore trip. (He’s been on them before)As soon as I met him all of my worries for gone. He was very personable and I could tell he had a great personality. We went over the safety equipment on the boat and discussed what type of fish we would be targeting that day.
  Immediately my son had questions and that continued through the whole entire day. There was not one time that Captain Rich didn’t answer a question, rolled his eyes, or looked irritated. He was excellent with my son. Now don’t get me wrong catching fish was important to me but I know that the captain can’t control of the fish bite, he can only take it to the spot fish don’t always bite. Making sure my son had an excellent experience was the most important thing and man did Captain Rich deliver.
We had some great talks on the way out and when we got out to the spot we started immediately whacking on the fish. I’ve been fishing a long time and I learned some new tricks on this trip. Captain rich was experienced, personable, and and the trip was exactly what was advertised.
  Throughout the day we had red grouper, multiple species of snapper, and a few other species. That’s a good day of fishing.
I’m an experienced angler with 30 years of experience. I have been all kinds of trips from half day to multi-day trips. I have been on many private charters with many Captains and Rich of reef relief was one of the best I’ve been with. He did a nice job cutting the fish and had my son laughing thru out the day. I could go on even more not one negative thing to say about these guys. Next time I’m fine down in Florida, which is often, I’ll be booking with reef relief for an awesome day on the water. Thanks Rich.

Captain Rich put us on some big pig groupers and a few other variety of fish, we didn’t stop fishing until his huge cooler was packed full of keepers! Captain Rich was very attentive and a great conversationalist! We will definitely be fishing with him again!

Captain Rich was amazing and very personable. We knew nothing about fishing and he was great showing us how to fish as in putting on the bait and how to wheel the fish in. He was very patient with us when we made mistakes. He is very well knowledgeable about where to the fish and made our day a lot of fun. I highly recommend mend Reef Relief Charters and would definitely book again.