Blue Water Charters

Departures leave from The Launch at ICW on Brown Lane in Orange Beach. The inshore and nearshore side of the schedule is built around three set trips. A four hour inshore run works the rock jetties, the bridge footings in Perdido Pass, the grass flats in and around Ono Island and the back bays for redfish, speckled trout, black drum, white trout, flounder, mangrove snapper, sheepshead and bluefish. A six hour inshore trip covers the same ground and can also make the longer run east to the grass flats of Santa Rosa Sound off Pensacola Beach, adding tripletail to the target list. The four hour nearshore trip is a bottom fishing outing that stays within about three miles of the coast with land in sight throughout, which the operation suggests for children and for anglers who have never fished open water, and it works nearshore reefs and wrecks for red snapper, vermilion snapper and lane snapper, with cobia and amberjack as possible extras. All three carry one to four people. Morning and afternoon departures are published for each, the six hour inshore leaving at 6am and the four hour trips at 7am or shortly after midday. Each departure time books through its own online scheduling link. A 20 percent gratuity is not included in the listed price, and a 3.5 percent guest fee applies to credit card payments.