Celtic Quest Fishing Party/Charter Boat — Local services in Town of Brookhaven

If I were to be forced to choose only one word to describe Friday’s 4:30-8:30 porgy trip on the Celtic Quest, the most fitting word would be LUDICROUS! Thankfully, I’m able to expand a little bit here in this forum. Capt. Mark was at the helm, leading us out into a tranquil Long Island Sound, where the wind was kicking a bit out of the Southwest, but fishing only a few hundred yards off shore, we weren’t knocked around at all. After a decent steam, we set up for the first drop along a nice piece of bottom, with the fish finder absolutely lit up! Only problem was, these miniature marine warriors we call porgies weren’t hungry. This drop and the next drop only yielded about 2 dozen scup, and there were rumblings among the crowd that we were in for a long trip. Not if Capt. Mark had anything to say about that! We headed back West, and in 15 minutes or so, Mark had us set up for the third (and what turned out to be the final) drop. Within 5 seconds of my bait reaching the strike zone, BANG! This was quickly followed up by BANG BANG BANG BANG! We were into the fish, and they were gorging themselves like it was Thanksgiving. Alex, the first mate, had started filleting me and my father’s overflowing tub at about 7. When she walked past again at about 8, and saw another overflowing bucket, I got a wry look of “really guy?” (all in fun of course). There were a few first time fishermen on this summer solstice voyage, and they were hooking up with doubleheaders and really enjoying their time. I spent the last half hour of this insanity helping the young kids at the rails perfect their strikes and fill their buckets. All the mates were incredible, their service was impeccable, and their knowledge was invaluable. Big thanks go out to the whole crew for working their butts off to fillet hundreds and hundreds of fish before we arrived back at the dock. If you find yourself in need of some soul-cleansing time on the water, take yourself and your family down to the Celtic Quest in Port Jeff; you’ll be sure to go home as...

I have been on a few fishing charters and this one was hands down my favorite! Originally had a date but due to weather we were quickly rescheduled for the next weekend by Susan! She was very nice and explained the options thoroughly. We decided to move it to the next weekend in hopes that the weather wouldn’t trip us up again.

The day arrives (9/26/2020) and our party of 3 were excited to get on board. The boarding process was smooth and each party was adequately spaced out. Everyone had on face coverings and the boat was very clean. Hand sanitizer was available for us to use although we did bring our own.

As for the fishing - it was AWESOME! The captain had to move us from our first spot but once we were settled we were catching them left and right. Mostly porgy (scup), keeper Sea bass, and a Lemon Shark [released]! We were pulling them in faster than we could get the rods back out! Ended up with a ton of fish and the crew was super helpful in getting them on board and making sure our bait was stocked. They even cleaned and gutted all our fish.

We are already planning our next trip and can’t wait to go out! Hopefully our luck strikes again but fishing is always different each time so don’t be discouraged!

Huge Thanks to the entire Celtic Quest Team and especially our Captain and deckhands! You guys rock!

Highly recommend...

the worst trip in my whole life . 4 hours trip . my group are 21 persons, we paid 917 dollars just to waste time . 4 hours trip !! started at 7 am on celtic quest today sunday july 26/2015 . 45 min driving to get in the fishing location ! just 20 min then they ordered to pull the fishing rods because they moving to different location ! this happened 4 times !! then another 45 min to get back !!! so 4 hours trip included 2.5 hours driving !!! . they fight us for the tips !! I said : Tips is up to me , if I felt happy I will pay a hundred not just 5 !! but I am not happy and all my group not happy !! then they said we have to pay it 105 dollars for 21 persons !! what is the difference between the tips and the ticket price . totally was no respect ,hard talking , at the end the captain said to us do not come her any more !! is that your way to contact your customers ? is that your way to waste our time ? is that your way to success in business thank you any way and be sure that you did not lose just 21 customers ....you lost a lot of customers . ...