Frances Fleet, Inc., South Kingstown

I went fishing at the prime time of year in the spring and as the mates released the boats lines from the dock and the boat pulled away the captain said on the PA that fishing was very bad for the last 2 weeks where they fished each day. He quickly followed that with " we will be going back to the same spot." There were 50 people onboard with a total of 15 borderline keepers FOR THE ENTIRE BOAT! THIS BUSINESS IS NO ROTTEN GOOD AS THEY PURPOSELY KEEP THEIR FISHERMAN AWAY FROM THE FISH, BELIEVING THEY WILL BE BACK TO GET SOME FISH. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY HERE. It would be much better if you got a 6-10 people you know together to charter a boat for close enough to the same per person price. Be fishing like a king instead of a like a peasant on a crowded boat.

Finally got a break in the weather when I had a day off from work. Drove down to meet the boat for the super early 3am departure. after a quick nap on the way out to the fishing grounds it was lock and load cod fishing for the entire day. The deckhands were gaffing fish as quickly as possible and could just keep up with all of us on deck. We sailed back to the dock before the scheduled end of the trip due to EVERYONES COOLERS BEING FULL!!! The guys cut fish all the way home and for some time at the dock. There were just so many fish. I really hope the weather (and fishing) will hold out so I can go a few more times.

Unsafe entry onto boat. We paid and boarded the boat with no help of crew. They didn't inform us as to what was going on with cancelling the cod fishing due to low numbers on the boat. Someone came onboard with a gas can and was very rude and did not inform us in a professional manne that they wanted to cancelr. I called 2x before going there and travelled more then 1 hr getting up at 430 am.

The boat was dirty. There was 1 mate for 30 people,who did nothing anyway. I was taking my owm fish off the hook. 1 bait bucket was used from 7 am to 4 pm. It was suppose to be a "JUMBO FLUKE AND SEA BASS" trip which the captain quickly converted to a lets get some scup trip. Ater a few hours of 1 keeper fluke and 0 sea bass they decided to storm the scup. I wanted fluke not scup. They went as far as changing my rig to a scup rig after my fluke rig was lost on a pile of rocks 20 feet down in front on BI fishing for SCUP. Its so insane that anyone would ever give the frances fleet a dime. Today was my 3rd and final trip. I wanted to prolong the fluke season a little longer,what a waste of 100 dollars. I hat to do a straight up comparison but the SEVENBs crushes the frances fleet in every way imaginable.Do yourself a favor sail the SEVENBS.......

I love fishing even if the fishing isn"t good. The attitude of the personnel from the person who sells the tickets,to the most of the employees and captain is definity not customer friendly.customers were leaving the office while others who had boarded left the boat for refunds.We were packed like sardines,3 out of the 4 deckhands did little to help,kids of the deckhands manning the grill and unsupervised.one of the handful of times I just wanted to stop fishing and go home.But don:t forget to tip evryone!!You can guess what I say to that.

I've been on this boat numerous times and haven't seen any great fishing on the boat. The fishing has ranged from poor to fair at best. My biggest complaint though is the practice of the captain and mates fishing alongside paying customers instead of working to help out the customers. I have much better luck on other party boats.

not only did you miss the boat, it was a graet fishing trip. lots of room at the rail and the morning bite was graet with cod coming over the rails in bunches. this was the first time that i fished with them, and you must of been the 10 people that were in the lot complaining at 4:30 am. i almost did not get on the boat because i thuoght more people like you would be on the boat. you dont have a clue on what it take to run a head boat. this was the first time that i fished on a head boat in over five years, the reason is after owning one for twenty years, people like you made me quit...i noticed a few private charter boats that would love to take you out for more money and room.thanks to capt. mike and crew my son and i will be back..(how much muney do you think they made with the wind blowing for the past three weeks?)

I understand that it costs alot to run a party boat but stuffing them on like sardines is crazy. At least 25 people did not board an already over crowded Cod fishing boat in early March. Someone should have known too expect a large crowd and had the other boat ready to go also. They missed out on 25 or more people at 80.00 a head. We could have gone out but it would have been crazy with 60 people on one boat fighting for space at the rail is not my idea of fun.