This was the worst fishing experience I have ever had. First off, I was told that we could have 4-6 people so we came with 5. What he failed to tell us was that he was bringing his buddy along who would take the only real seat at the back of the boat for the entire trip. We had one guy who is waiting on hip replacement surgery, so the only real seat to fish from was being used by the captains "pal". I am so glad we shelled out $625 so that his buddy could fish for free. Most of the gear was very old and in disrepair. I asked the captain if we were going to be vertical jigging and was told "that's over." There were maybe 2-3 poles that were ready to fish when we left the dock. The rest had to be hand tied by the second mate, so it was nearly an hour before all of us were in the water. And I use "all of us" very liberally. Since vertical jigging was "over" , we were going to be drifting with crawler harnesses. The problem now was that he literally drifted off-motor, so that we could only fish from one side of the boat. Since the buddy had the one true seat in the boat all to himself, we had 2 guys at the rail, one half-sitting on the stairs to the bridge and one guy actually fishing from the bridge, which is really a very effective way to fish. As you can all ad up, that left us with one guy not fishing all day. We were given ancient bait-casters that were bird nested from previous trips, spin casters that had defective bail arms and about half way through the trip, the second mate pretty much adjourned to the cabin to work on untangling messes that were on the boat before we ever got there. That left us to tie and re-tie lines, since snap swivels have not been discover on this boat. We booked the boat from 7:00 - 12:30, but by 11:00 am were freezing and fed up, 6 fisherman caught 7 fish. We returned to the dock and the second mate "cleaned" our fish. Stevie Wonder would have done a better job. Tons of meat was left behind and ALL of the rib bones were left in every single fillet. Now comes the kicker, all the other boats we drifted by (who were vertical jigging) were also back at the dock, not because it was too cold, but because they had their limits. Every single other boat had dozens upon dozens of walleye. They were all still cleaning fish when we departed and they all hit the docks before us. RUN, don't walk away from these clowns. They truly do not care one way or another whether you catch fish or not. read more