Private fishing trips for families, first-time offshore anglers, experienced fishermen, couples, and groups of up to six passengers.
Most people booking their first offshore fishing charter do not know the difference between a 5, 6, 8, or 10 hour trip. You are not expected to.
Trip length mainly changes how much time, range, and flexibility Captain Troy and Sam have to work with the fishing day. More time can give us more places to fish, different offshore opportunities, and more options when the first plan is not working.
For most families and first-time offshore anglers, the 6 Hour Family Fun Trip is the best place to start.
Bent poles, smiling faces, and time together are what deep sea fishing is all about.
Shorter Family Option
Available on selected dates for families wanting a shorter fishing day.
Available on Selected Dates
Best Starting Point
A good balance of offshore fishing, time, comfort, and cost for most families and first-time guests.
More Time and Range
More time to fish additional areas and adjust when conditions or fishing pressure tell us another plan may make sense.
Available on Selected Dates
Our Longest Trip
A full fishing day with our most time, range, and flexibility to work different offshore opportunities.
Fall fishing can be a different decision than fishing early in the summer.
Several seasonal fishing opportunities may be available, while months of fishing pressure can also make trip length, range, and flexibility more important.
If you are thinking about fishing in August, September, or October, our Fall Fishing Guide explains what may be available, why the season is worth looking at, and how trip length can affect your options.
When you book with Distraction Charters, your group has the entire boat. You are not buying individual seats or sharing the trip with strangers.
A private charter allows us to work with your group instead of following a one-size-fits-all plan. Children and first-time anglers can receive patient instruction, while experienced fishermen can concentrate on fishing.
Learn more about whether a
private deep sea fishing charter is worth the investment
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Catching a variety of Gulf species can help make the trip complete.
Productive reef-fishing areas are many miles offshore, so travel time is part of a real deep sea fishing trip.
On a typical 6-hour trip, we may begin trolling about 20 to 25 minutes after leaving the marina when trolling fish are active. We may troll while traveling offshore, fish reef and bottom areas, move between locations, and troll again while returning toward Perdido Pass.
When trolling conditions are productive, a 6-hour trip may include close to five hours of fishing activity. Seasons, weather, fish movement, current, and the kind of fishing we are doing all affect how the day develops.
We consider six hours a true offshore half-day trip, eight hours closer to a traditional three-quarter day, and ten hours a full fishing day.
The right trip depends on your family, budget, experience, and how much of the day you want to spend offshore. You do not have to know the answer before contacting us.
Seasonal opportunities such as gag grouper can give longer trips another reason to consider more time and range when the season and conditions line up.
A shorter fishing option available on selected dates.
Five hours can make sense for families with younger children, limited vacation time, or groups that simply prefer a shorter day on the water.
Most families should start here.
Six hours gives us enough time for a real offshore fishing experience without requiring your family to commit the entire day.
It is a good choice if you want to go offshore, catch some fish, learn how the day works, and enjoy the experience together.
More time and range than the 6-hour trip. Available on selected dates
Eight hours gives us additional time to reach more fishing areas, stay with opportunities longer, or make another move when conditions tell us the first plan is not producing what we hoped.
It can make sense for returning guests, experienced anglers, or families who simply want to give the fishing day more time.
A full fishing day with our most time, range, and flexibility.
Ten hours gives us considerably more time to travel, search, fish additional areas, change techniques, and make another move when the fishing day calls for it.
Depending on the season, regulations, water conditions, and where the best opportunities develop, a 10-hour trip may include reef fishing, bottom fishing, trolling, or targeting seasonal offshore species.
Those opportunities can include red snapper and other reef fish, vermilion snapper, triggerfish, greater amberjack, grouper, king and Spanish mackerel, wahoo, and other Gulf species when conditions and seasons line up.
Wahoo and other offshore pelagic fish are real fishing opportunities on longer trips, but they are never something we can promise before leaving the dock.
This trip fits groups who want to spend most of their day fishing and are comfortable being offshore for ten hours.
A longer trip does not buy a guarantee.
It gives Captain Troy and Sam more time to make decisions.
That may mean traveling farther, trying another reef, fishing another depth, changing techniques, trolling when an offshore opportunity develops, or giving a bite more time to develop.
The effort stays the same. More time gives us more choices.
That flexibility is the real reason to consider spending more money on a longer fishing trip.
The right trip depends on your family, budget, experience, and how much of the day you want to spend offshore.
For most families and first-time guests, six hours is a good starting point. If fishing is a bigger priority and your group wants to give us more time and range, an 8 or 10 hour trip may make more sense.
Our 10 Hour Full Day Fishing Trip is the longest trip we offer.
You do not have to figure this out before contacting us.
Request your date and select “Not sure yet. Please help me choose.” Tell Captain Troy what your group hopes to accomplish and he will help before confirming anything.
Families enjoy the space, comfort, and private atmosphere aboard Distraction.
Many of our guests are families staying in Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, or Perdido Key. Some have children who have never fished offshore. Some adults have never been offshore either, or it has been years since they fished.
Nobody is expected to step aboard already knowing what to do.
Because every trip is private, we can adapt the day to your group. Children and beginners can receive as much patient coaching as they need, while experienced anglers can concentrate on fishing.
What we fish for depends on the season, regulations, weather, water conditions, trip length, fishing pressure, and where the best opportunity develops that day.
Depending on the time of year and trip length, fishing opportunities may include red snapper, vermilion snapper, triggerfish, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, bonito, greater amberjack, grouper, wahoo, and other Gulf species.
Longer trips can give us additional range to consider different fishing opportunities, including trolling for seasonal pelagic fish such as wahoo or mackerel when conditions make sense.
We would rather tell you what is realistic than promise something the Gulf may not give us.
For current harvest information, visit
What Can We Keep?
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If you are planning an August, September, or October trip, visit our
Fall Fishing in Orange Beach Guide
.
Your trip time includes the entire experience with us, including boarding, safety briefing, fishing, the ride back, and having your, catch cleaned and bagged.
During the busy summer months, we typically ask guests to arrive around 5:45 a.m. so we can get underway by 6:00 a.m. and have your group finished by approximately noon. During spring and fall, we generally depart around 6:30 a.m. and have your group finished by approximately 12:30 p.m.
Exact arrival and departure times can vary with the season, weather and fishing conditions. We will confirm your arrival time before your trip.
Your trip includes boarding, the safety briefing, traveling offshore, fishing time, moving when needed, returning to the marina, and cleaning your fish.
We count the complete experience because that is the actual time your group is with the boat and crew.
Wahoo may be encountered when trip range, season, water conditions, and opportunity line up.
Different customers want different things from a fishing trip.
Some want enough fish for supper. Some want to bring home what the day’s legal fishing reasonably allows. Some want their children to catch fish. Others want a chance at different offshore opportunities or simply want to spend a full day on the Gulf with bent poles.
Tell us what matters to you.
You do not have to know which trip creates that outcome. Knowing what you hope to accomplish helps us recommend the right amount of time and gives Captain Troy and Sam a better understanding of the day you are trying to have.
If you have a particular species or type of fishing in mind, tell us before the trip so we can discuss whether that expectation is realistic for the season and conditions.
All trips depart from Orange Beach Marina. Guests regularly drive from Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, Perdido Key, and other nearby Alabama Gulf Coast vacation areas.
If you are staying nearby and searching for Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, or Perdido Key fishing charters, your private trip with Distraction Charters will begin in Orange Beach.
You do not have to figure it out by yourself.
Tell us how many people are coming, whether children are fishing, whether you have offshore experience, what you hope to catch or take home, your budget, and how much of the day you want to spend on the water.
Captain Troy will help you understand the options before confirming anything.
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Distraction Charters
Orange Beach Marina, Slip E-12
27075 Marina Road
Orange Beach, AL 36561
Call or text:
251-975-8111
Park in the lot on the right marked in yellow. Walk west along the red-line walkway past the restaurant and toward the left side of the dock store.
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