Santa Cruz, Central Coast

Go Fish Santa Cruz

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Charter boats and sportfishing trips from Go Fish Santa Cruz.

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North Harbor Dock X1 Slip 7 (7th Ave & Brommer St), Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Go Fish Santa Cruz

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About Go Fish Santa Cruz Charters
Price Range
$$
Rating
5.0★ (4 TripAdvisor)

Go Fish Santa Cruz Charters operates from X-Dock in the Northeast Harbor of Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor as a six-pack charter. Captain JT, per the operator's site, "has fished waters of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay for over 15 years."

Fleet

The fleet is one boat — the Miss Beth, a 30-foot Island Hopper sportfishing vessel with a 12-foot beam. The vessel runs a 400-hp low-emissions Cummins engine and carries Simrad electronics, a Furuno 582 600-watt fish finder, Furuno 36-mile radar, a Robertson autopilot, and an Echotec GPS plotter. Deck space runs 100 square feet of unobstructed cockpit with padded coaming, a sun shade, a private head, a 90-gallon live well, and 18-foot offshore outriggers.

Trip types

The trip menu covers salmon, rock cod, lingcod, halibut, and tuna fishing plus crab-combo and crab-only runs, whale and dolphin watching, sunset bay cruises, and ash scatterings. Bait and rods are provided; anglers supply their own license, food, and non-glass beverages.

Pricing

2026 pricing from the landing's own rate page: salmon trips $250 per person, rock cod trips $250 per person, a long-range rock cod / lingcod run at $1,530 for a six-seat boat charter, a full-boat tuna charter at $2,520, crab-combo trips $270 per person, and crab-only trips $205 per person.

Recent reports

Public catch counts are not posted to a daily dock report. Recent traffic on TripAdvisor describes mixed-bag salmon and rockfish runs, with one reviewer noting the boat returned to the slip with 18 fish before 9:30 a.m. despite 20-mph winds and 10-foot swells.

Reviews

TripAdvisor averages 5.0 of 5 across 4 reviews. One reviewer wrote that "JT is a fishing ninja. He helped our 11 and 13 year old girls learn how to let out the line, hold the rod, reel it in etc." Another, after a rough-water trip, noted the boat returned with "18 fish" by 9:30 a.m.

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