Ok, where do I start. My brother in law and I on a whim decided to go fishing and for some reason picked the Dauntless. So we headed out nice and early and brought my 14 year old daughter with us because she loves to fish. The boat itself was a decent boat for a party boat and we had some nice weather, but that's it.
As for the mates, they all stunk (and I'm being nice now). The bait they used was old and nasty.. The head mate was just horrific. He was just a total ass. We had one fish, which one of the mates measured in front of me and it was big enough to keep. But at the end of the day this jerk was filleting our fish and told us it was to small and he couldn't filet it. He actually told us that fish shrink when they die and we couldn't keep it. None of them wanted to be bothered with any one. As to their filleting the fish they just butchered the fish. Were I should have gotten a 10 oz fillet, I maybe got a 5 oz one. I could probably tell you 10 more stories of what asses they were but will save you the read.
As for the captain, well he just gave up looking for the fish half way through the day. He would anchor and just sit and sit with no fish coming on the boat instead of moving to the next spot. Guess he was just trying to save some fuel. The worst thing though was the fact that a week later he posted on their website (Dauntlessfishing.com) that we had a good day with most people having 10 keepers. I didn't see anyone with 10 fish let alone 10 keepers. Between the 3 of us we might have had 10 keepers. Most people had 3 to 4. Just an all out LIE.
If I could give ZERO STARS I would have. read more