Captain Hook Party Fishing Boat at Shelter Cove
A 70-foot party fishing boat at Shelter Cove Harbour: shared offshore and shark-fishing trips with every rod and bait included.
Reviewers single out the mates, who walk the rail all trip untangling lines, baiting hooks and celebrating every catch, and often know everyone on board by name before the boat is back.
Book Captain Hook
Live availability for each trip. Shark fishing runs May to August.
Captain Hook Party Fishing Boat
4 Hour Inshore Shark Fishing
Seasonal: next dates not posted yet
Captain Hook Party Fishing Boat
Friday 3.5 Hour Inshore Shark Fishing
Seasonal: next dates not posted yet
Booked through FareHarbor, the island operators’ own booking system. HHI.com may earn a commission.
- Boat
- 70 feet long, 21 feet wide
- Offshore trip
- 5.5 hours, 9 a.m.
- Adults
- $75 to $85
- Gear
- rods, bait and tackle included
Captain Hook is the big white party boat on Dock C at Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina, and the largest party fishing boat on Hilton Head Island: 70 feet long and 21 wide, family-owned and inspected by the Coast Guard. It has an enclosed cabin, shaded seats along the fishing rails, a galley selling hot and cold food and drinks, two restrooms and an upper sun deck. On a party boat you buy a place, not the whole boat, so you fish alongside other groups. Rods, reels, bait, tackle, ice and fish cleaning are included, and the crew walks the rail all trip untangling lines and showing beginners what to do.
Captain Hook Party Fishing Trips
Offshore fishing: the most popular trip, 5.5 hours out to the wrecks and reefs, leaving at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. $85 for adults and teens, $75 for children 12 and under.
Inshore shark fishing: about four hours in calmer water for blacktip, dusky, Atlantic sharpnose and hammerhead sharks, weekdays from mid-May through August, with a shorter 3.5-hour trip on summer Fridays. $80 for adults on the four-hour trip, $75 on the Friday trip.
Night shark fishing and fireworks: on Tuesdays from mid-June to mid-August, four hours of shark fishing that finishes on the water for the HarbourFest fireworks. $80 for adults, $70 for children.
The season starts in March. The offshore trip is out on the open ocean, so the inshore shark trips, in calmer water, are the gentler choice for young children.
Private Fishing Charters
The same family runs private boats for a group of your own: Gale Warning, a 22-foot bay boat for up to four, and Gale Force, a 28-foot Whitewater for up to six that goes from a three-hour nearshore family trip to a ten-hour offshore day. They are booked through Hilton Head Sport Fishing, the family’s sister company, which also runs the offshore boats Gullah Gal and True Grits. The island’s other ways to fish are in our Hilton Head fishing guide.
More Fishing at Shelter Cove
Hilton Head Sport Fishing at Shelter Cove Marina: private inshore and offshore charters on four boats, 3 to 10 hours, from Dock B since 1989.
Bay Runner Charters at Shelter Cove Marina: Captain Miles Altman's inshore, shark and offshore reef fishing charters on three boats, since 1970.
Palmetto Lagoon Charters, also sold as Palmetto Fishing Charters: Captain Trent Malphrus's Palmetto Dunes lagoon and Shelter Cove inshore trips.
Captain Kidd at Shelter Cove Harbour: a family crabbing boat with 1 hour 45 minute catch-and-release trips from $39, plus Tuesday fireworks nights.
Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina: HarbourFest, Tuesday fireworks over the water, free family shows, dolphin tours, fishing charters, kayaks and boat rentals.
Hilton Head fishing, season by season: inshore redfish, deep sea trips, surf fishing, free piers and crabbing, plus licenses, bait shops and charters.
What reviewers say
Reviewers single out the mates, who walk the rail all trip untangling lines, baiting hooks and celebrating every catch, and often know everyone on board by name before the boat is back. Families with children say the crew made sure the youngest caught something, a shark for some of them, and several reviewers have been going every year for a decade or more. The boat is called clean and well shaded, with a galley for anything you forgot. On a slow day the catch can run small.
Frequently Asked Questions
Updated
How long is the Captain Hook fishing trip?
The main offshore trip is 5.5 hours and leaves Shelter Cove at 9 a.m. The inshore shark trips run 3.5 to 4 hours.
Do you need your own gear on the Captain Hook party boat?
No. Rods, reels, bait, tackle, ice and fish cleaning are included, and the crew helps beginners and children.
Is there food on Captain Hook?
Yes. A galley on board sells hot and cold food and drinks, and the boat has an enclosed cabin and two restrooms.
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