We looked at reviews on some different web sites and pretty much had it narrowed down to H&M or Point Loma. Both have similar trips but Point Loma doesn't do a morning and afternoon 1/2 day during the week yet, and neither are doing twighlight trips yet.
Read a lot of reviews, checked out a few on the Cali BFT boards but they were a few years old, and just decided on H&M. Some reviews were good for each and some were pretty bad. It prepared me a little bit as far as what to expect in fees for the bag and food, and it prompted me to be happy and personable to the crew and cook. I don't know how they treated all of the other passengers but we had a good time chatting with the cook for a while and the other guys were really good about helping with hooks and tangles and tips. Basically started the day happy and excited and it made us people that were pleasant to help (they also helped and flirted with the hot girls, but I can't really blame them there).
We had a good time. If my wife wasn't sick and we had caught bigger fish we would have gone again for the afternoon trip at half price and used more of our Cali day license.
There were only a few negatives:
The Landing office people weren't all that fun, sure it was 6am, but they didn't seem to care very much. They might have been in a bad mood because the 3/4 day didn't have enough people and they had to cancel it which made for some unhappy customers.
They put your fish into burlap sacks with your number on them and I would have preferred it if they kept the sacks wetter and out of the sun more to stay as cold as possible
When filleting. the fish they are very fast but wasted more meat, particularly rib meat, than I would have liked. I might just have the small ones cleaned next time and only fillet big ones.
Lastly, when we were getting off the boat there was a smokin' hot girl in a bikini ready to get on for the afternoon trip. It would sure be handy if they would put one of those on every trip
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