Felon, ideally we’d pay someone to take us out on the first day then rent a boat and do it on our own the rest of the trip. Only problem with that is we’d need to make a pretty big investment to get the proper rods reels tackle etc to handle the fish. I have some stuff we could use as does my buddy but buying the additional quality gear we’d want could eat up the savings on guide cost pretty quick. I’m not super excited about using my high end reels in salt either. Preferably we’d find somewhere that will rent the gear we’ll need. I’ve heard most times you rent rods and reels they are garbage. I’ve never done it.
So I guess we need to analyze the cost and logistics a bit more to figure out what makes sense but if we can do it on our own Florida seems like it would be a good choice. I hate vacationing in Florida but if it’s just a fishing trip it’s fine by me.
I prefer to do all hunting and fishing on my own as well. Only charters I’ve paid for was Alaska halibut and cod fishing and that wasn’t something we could do on our own, with as much success as we had, for several reasons.
Thanks for the feedback.