I went on a 1.5 day charter on June 16, 2026-it was my second trip on this boat. On the basis of two trips, the crew and the captain were outstanding professionals. They were attentive to experts and neophytes and treated all with courtesy and respect. They worked hard. On my first trip I landed one yellowtail and on my second I landed three. I recommend them highly!! read more

Looks like the previous reviews are from when the boat had a different owner out of Oxnard. It's operating out of 22nd Street now out of San Pedro. Just going to comment on my experience and keep it short. Old School Captain (Tino), all his recommendations worked, caught multiple limits. Most solid crew in the SoCal area I've experienced. The deck hands were incredibly attentive/helpful, the chef/cook put it down with some amazing food throughout the day, and was also an amazing deck hand. Hands down the best long range boat in the LA/LB/OC area. I was fortunate enough to jump on an open spot on a charter, with some incredibly nice people. The negative is it's not easy to get on this amazing boat. It's almost always chartered, so if you see a spot book it. The captain kept us catching the whole trip, nough said! read more

Amigo Sportfishing - Lingcod - Fishing Near Me - San Pedro, California

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Crew Kept a fish i caught. Did the same to another passenger. When they were passing the fish. Me and another man ask where our fish was. Crew member said they threw it out it was mushy. BS read more

Said we're goin Yellowtail fishing, we start our morning rockfish to boost their count?! Why did I pay $300 to have the crew take up the entire rear of the boat , didn't know I was paying you guys to fish for me.. crew calls out boils for SeaLion exhaling , captain calls for bait & dude throws two out smh cant tell you how many times tried to get fresh bait and nothing was ready..weather was nice , food was good ..better than working but I ll take $$ elsewhere than return for their set routine hop scotching around San Clemente.. read more

Oh my!! I want to go fishing again. I went here a few years ago and I almost caught the jackpot fish. I got a white sea bass that was like 22 pounds (if i remember right). Well worth the $ to get on the boat! take a pill if you're going overnight to fight the sea sickness. Love these guys we had the best time. Thanks especially to Ed, we loved meeting and hanging out with you. We ate rock fish tacos for months! read more

Amigo Sportfishing - rock fish tacos lime and cilantro slaw - Fishing Near Me - San Pedro, California

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Have to say this is the best sportfishing boat In So Cal! Captain Jon and his crew ricky, Zack, and the other young dude are really attentive... knowledgeable about the job they do... they really make you feel at home! I'm definitely planning another trip soon! read more

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Under new ownership and launching out of 22nd street landing in LA. Always on the fish, good food in the galley, and helpful deckhands. And if you're having a tough time on the water, Marc, the best fishing hype man around, will turn your frown upside down. read more

Gotta say I haven't been out sport fishing in years. Previously I went out from Oxnard harbor with a different company and was little nervous going with a new company. That nervousness vanished right after arriving at the docks. The crew was extremely helpful. They were always available to help your carry bags, set up your rods and even light your cigarette when the wind kicks up. They all go above and beyond for there customers. Jean works her but off all day cooking delicious food for everyone on board. Breakfast was ready at 6:30 am. I ate both breakfast and lunch on board. Everything was delicious. Try her burgers they are the best. The captain is great and very welcoming. He won't hesitate for a second to jump down and help you with your fish as well. We ran into some weird weather during our trip but he kept the boat steady and kept us all safe. We caught tons of fish. Brought my friends son along with us on this trip. The captain and crew are very kid friendly. I highly recommend the overnight trip on the Amigo. read more

Ok where do I start. We at 16 families and friends that book on an open party June 15. This is our yearly Father's Day trip. We decided to book the Amigo 4 months ahead. So June 15 came and we got on with other 5 anglers we didn't know. We have families from northern Cal, San Deigo and St Louis. The day begin out on the fishing ground with us waking up and making live squid with 1 deck hand at 4:30am. We had 10 guys trying to help fill the tank with some live squids. Other charter we didn't have to do that as squid is provided. Day go on and we all having a good time. There was a deck hand at time was snappy and not to friendly but we manage to continuing enjoying our trip. Ok after we were done and the boat was heading back to dock. Once we get close Captain announced for us to come in and pay our tabs. So we all did. Then once we were close to port deck hand came up to me and said that the Captain want to speak to me. So I went up to the wheel house and see why the Captain want to see me. Well this is what he ask. He said did everyone had a good time and I said yes because we always have a good time no matter we catch fishes or not. He said well it does seem like it because some of the guys didn't tip the crew very well. I said what do u mean? I told him tips is what guys can afford and think. I can't speak for anyone but me. I gave the crew $40 and Jenny the cook $14. I been on a open charter and never had a Captain call me up to a wheel house question tips. So I felt bad and ended up giving them another $100. Also the Captain didn't even give my cuz his Jackpot $$$ until we were on land while collecting our fishes. He had to ask for it more then 3 times. My families was furriest when I told them what I did. Well let just said this The Amigo is no longer on our list for Fishing in the future. They need to understand that Tips should never be question especially when we paying $170 per person and giving them business. And also they had a charter the next night with some of my local friends that was on there and my friend won the Jackpot with 16 anglers playing and only got $140 out of $160 that was play. Owner need to correct issue because this will kill his business in the future. Only person on that boat that deserve a 5 stars is Jenny the cook. She awesome. read more

I was a 100 ton USCG captain for many years out of San Diego and ran private yachts to many ports of Mexico for years after that. I should have fished on the Pacific Dawn. Never been on the Amigo and never will again. DO not know where to start, but can only say I got to the boat ramp early and had my tackle and rods 1st in line hours early. When the captain and crew finally got ready to board at a late 830 pm with a 9pm departure [still had to move my truck to the free parking so it would not get towed after I loaded my gear on the boat] Well the captain Ricky started walking right by everyone with a big 400 pound 7 foot tall galoot or it turns out on the trip was a giant gom running over people entangling people and stepping on their rods without a word,. well Ricky was giving this guy the Carte Blanche kiss ass treatment and carrying all his stuff down to the boat and almost tucking him in to his larger bunk. Then Ricky starts walking pairs of guys past with all their gear and says they have all agreed to double up bunks and sleep together. So I was being ran over by pairs of anglers when I said "What if I do not need a bunk and stay in the galley all night" . Ricky said tough titty that is the policy of this boat. Wow I am a big guy 290 lbs and like my own larger bunk as well. Then we get on the boat and we are all forced to listen to his fishing and safety speal which is required by the US Coast guard but was a giant speech telling us that Jenny the galley girls tips were NOT a part of the two captain two deck hand crews tips. And believe me Ricky repeated this targeted line of hawking for tips all day long. I have also never seen a captain setting up the trip to fail ahead of time. Basically making it a full fledged rock cod trip. WHICH THE CREW MAKES SURE MONEY ON IN FILLET MONIES. He started with the weather saying how bad it was and we would never reach the hot area. Then Ricky tells all of us the squid beds are dried up the seiners wrapped all the squid and its ALL gone, very hard to believe by me. He says he talked to Pat Cavanaugh on the Pacific Dawn the other overnight boat out of Ventura Sportfishing that night and Pat told him he had NO idea where he was going to fish the next day. That turned out to be complete Bullshit lie, he on to tell us one boat had caught some large yellowtail where we may be able to fish. I have caught my share of thousands of yellowtail over the years and I was not paying $165 for a ticket $125 in gas and driving 350 miles round trip to catch yellowtail or more importantly rock fish [I did that back in November]. We had a lot of hot serious sticks on the boat, candy live squid for bait and all the weapons we needed to konk the white sea bass and really put a hurt on them,. We set anchor during the night on the outside of Santa Cruz Island inside of Santa Rosa. What made me the maddest is what happened next. After fishing this spot for no bites for several hours Ricky between all of his practiced commentary to all of the passengers on board LIED to all of ALL to our faces and said he had been talking to all of the other boats, the 5am to 5pm boats and most importantly Pat on the Pacific Dawn and they had not ANY of them gotten a bite. No fish for the other boats so far so he was going to head out to 340 feet of water already and bail out on fishing for sea bass anymore. WOW how weak. No balls no glory. I think he was thinking of the MONEY $$$ FISH rock cod the entire time. I have never not tipped the crew in my life, I worked the sport boats for many years myself and I know what it is like to work for tips. The rockfishing in the Channel Islands is still great so we were able to get lots of rock fish but I was surprised that the crew was unable to keep up with people tangles and sacking fish. Even though I tried to avoid the other 19 passengers I found myself in lots of tangles with no help as the crew was too busy sacking decked fish and counting $$$. When it came time to tell them about fish cleaning I told them to leave my fish whole and immediately got a bad attitude and treatment from the crew. I caught 3 large salmon groupers and gave them away so I ended up with six red snappers. The crew has the ability to fill out my sack with four more fish or send me home with a limit because they had three gunny sacks full of boat fish and we were at over limits of rock fish pretty quickly. As soon as the crew found out they were to make no fish cleaning money off of my sack that was the end of that story., Ricky went on to tell us all how LUCKY we were compared to the other boats, rwestupid? Ricky spent the rest of the day over by Santa Cruz chasing around small rat yellowtail the size of your shoe that we just looked at for over two hours. Why not make a derby sized halibut drift? Come to find out the Pacific Dawn caught limits of rock fish too but also caught 37 WHITE SEA BASS. I tipped Jenny the galley girl $20 not because I was told to. read more

Best sportfishing boat around! Great captain and crew. Very professional and knowable crew. The cook,(chef) Chad was top-notch! Will defiantly be a regular on the Amigo! Also parking was a breeze! read more

Not many things are for sure in life. But for me, one thing that is for sure is I will definitely go on the Amigo again. I went this past Saturday. Had a great time. Got really seasick; but still had a great time. I caught some lingcod. Every other boat in this county has only one or two lingcod but we maxed out on our limit. Everyone on the boat got their limit. Then we moved to go rock fishing and white fishing. This boat puts you over the fish even in the fall and winter. The deckhand Colin was awesome, friendly even though extremely tired and motivating. The cook Jenny made extremely good food and was even helping untangle lines in her downtime. And Captain Ricky was amazing. Refused to let anyone not catch fish. Made sure everyone had proper rigs. And while everyone was fishing he was helping the deckhand the entire time. This boat works hard for you and puts you over tons of lingcod. I got really sea sick and threw up over the side of the boat in front of everyone. And while swamped helping everyone else every crew member including the captain made an effort to ask me if I was good. The captain even invited me to his domain where it was a little less motion and talked with me for a while. I love this boat. This was only the second time I've gone on a fishing boat but this experience was way better than the first strictly because the crew treated you right. I love this boat and the entire crew. They will definitely see me again. read more

Amigo Sportfishing - Fishing Near Me - San Pedro, California

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