What Makes Party and Charter Boat Captains Tick??

[Gerry Zagorski]

I tried it myself......I had a boat, I knew how to fish and I got my Captains license all the time thinking " How cool it would be for me to make some money doing what I already have, know and love"? Plus I already had a site to promote my my charter business so it's a chip shot for me, right?

Well it turns out, it's not as easy as it seems

Showing up early to get the boat ready, baiting hooks and almost passing out from the heat.. Trying to manage schedules, who is in, who is out... What's the weather going to be, the pressure to put people on fish and not being able to drink a cold beer on my own boat??

It only took a few months for me to figure out it took something I knew and loved and turned into a job I certainly wasn't cut out for.....

That experience gave me a lot of respect for people who do this for a living but begs the question, how and why they choose to do this and what make these Captains tick??