For charter captains
The bidness end of the fishing business.
Get found. Get paid. Keep your customers. Written by captains, not by an agency. We smell like bait, not whiteboards.
You run a boat and this site wants to help you keep it that way. Everything here is built to help a working captain turn trips into repeat customers. Turn repeat customers into steady income. Turn steady income into a business that doesn't sink when the weather does. It's practical, gritty, and made for people who measure days in tides and fuel burn, not spreadsheets.
Latest
- Customers September 9, 2026 Bills Don't Take the Off-Season Off In season, a cancellation is nothing. Off-season is the real problem, and waiting for the phone to ring is how it stays that way.
- Customers August 30, 2026 Repeat Customers Are Worth More Than New Ones, and Here's the Math Repeat customers and direct referrals should be a third to half of your bookings.
- Money August 24, 2026 What Guidesly Actually Did for Me, and Why I Left Anyway Guidesly Pro built me a real site with real SEO. Here's what it actually got me, what it didn't, and why I moved off it anyway.
- Customers August 16, 2026 What I Keep in the Dry Storage, and Why A cheap box of sunglasses, a zip-lock bag, and what a book about a New York restaurant got right about running a boat.
- Customers August 14, 2026 What to Write Down After Every Trip The five-field log from 'Log the Trip,' turned into the template I actually use, three of my own filled-out logs, and an honest answer on where I keep it.
- Money August 13, 2026 Why You Can't Undercut FishingBooker, and What Going Direct Is Actually For FishingBooker has a rule that kills the 'cheaper on my own site' idea before it starts. Here's what going direct actually buys you instead.
- Money August 9, 2026 What FishingBooker Actually Costs You You control your own commission rate, like a dial. Here's what turning it up actually buys you, and what FishingBooker's own numbers say about who wins.
- Money August 6, 2026 What FishingBooker Actually Gets You Before the commission math, the honest case for why FishingBooker is a legitimate way to get paying trips, not just something you tolerate.
- Getting Found August 4, 2026 Why Your Charter Website Doesn't Show Up on Google Being on Google Maps and showing up in a search result are two different things. Here's why your own site is invisible, and what to actually fix.
- Reviews August 3, 2026 How to Get Reviews Without It Being Weird The GBP guide told you reviews matter most. Here's exactly how to ask, where to focus, and what to do about the bad one.
- Customers August 2, 2026 Log the Trip, Not Just the Fish You're already collecting the info that gets you rebooked. Most captains just aren't writing it down.
- Getting Found July 30, 2026 How to Set Up Google Business Profile for Your Charter The free thing every marketing agency charges you for. Set up right, step by step.
- New Captains July 14, 2026 Six-Step Plan to the Best Hard Job You'll Ever Have The six real steps between wanting this job and actually having it, money and all.