Depart on a guided fishing excursion from Grayton Beach on the “Trigger Happy”. Captain Mike will take you 3-10 miles offshore on his well-equipped Cape Horn vessel. Capt. Mike has been fishing the Grayton Beach area since 1983 and knows the offshore reefs well. Captain Mike and award-winning deckhand James Griffith strive to provide a FUN & SAFE trip on the open water for your entire group.
We run one morning trip per day – 3 hrs for $800. Or 4 hrs for $1,000.
Cash/Check/Venmo (please make checks payable to Mike Valentino)
Fish Cleaning Extra / Please include fish cleaning fee w/gratuity
The boat can accommodate 4 Adults or 5 total if 1 is 12 or under
Licenses, Bait and Tackle provided
To keep up with the dates of what fish are legal to keep, check out www.myfwc.com
What to Bring
Drinks & Snacks in small cooler or use our drink cooler on Boat
Hats/Sunglasses/Sunscreen
Meeting Time / Location
Fishing Trip departure times will be determined by weather, season and circumstances. Capt Mike will advise your departure time the day prior to your trip when he touches base with you by phone.
Parking situation is dictated by Walton County and we will advise as it develops.
You will meet Capt Mike at the orange cones on Grayton Beach behind The Red Bar at the public Grayton Dunes Access.
To reserve your date please call or text Barbara Valentino 832-723-7544 | Email
Great fishing with you Mike! The boys really loved it all…from launching and landing on the beach, to catching the bait fish, to landing the 58 inch King Mackeral. None of us will ever forget it. We will be back to try and top this next time.”
Steve Zimba, Atlanta, GA.
“Can it be said that fishing with your wife and mother in law can be fun? Well, YES, we had an awesome charter and you made it very easy and accessible for the ladies to board the boat from the beach, along with a smooth ride to the famous “Haley Hole”. We, or should I say, the women, had the limit of their Grouper within the first hour and half. The snapper were marvelous also. Heck even both the ladies scored King Mackerel, fighting them out of the water and into the cooler. I look forward to our return to charter again.”
Spencer Haley, Nashville, TN
“Phil, Robbie, Adam, and I went fishing on the “Trigger Happy” Saturday AM with Capt. Mike Valentino out of Grayton Beach. As there is no pass and no marina, charters there launch right off the beach. He met us at the public access, loaded us in the boat and drove out to the surf. we spent about an hour catching bait about 100 yards off the beach then went bottom fishing. We put out the trolling lines on the way back in to try to get a king. With only about a mile to go until we were back, FISH ON! we gave Adam the rod and he reeled it in- but not a king, a red snapper. I’ve never seen a snapper caught when trolling so this seemed fairly odd. Anyway, we look at the graph and there are fish everywhere. I dropped a dead minnow down to the bottom and immediately had a keeper size snapper on. As it came to the surface there were about a dozen more schooling around it. Never seen that before either. A great day on the big pond. We limited out on red snapper and had one nice grouper and some mingo snapper (beeliners) and lane snapper.”
Darren, Auburn, AL
“I just wanted to thank you again for the fantastic day we had on your boat. From the time you picked us up on the beach until the time we picked up our fish you were a total professional. Each of the boy’s caught a nice King on the fly line and we all made a contribution to a nice limit of Red Snapper. We caught a huge Varity of fish as well. Man, I sure would have liked to have gotten a look at the big fish that broke my line, that fish had some shoulders. Mike Miller and myself have both decided, hands down this is the best four hour trip either of us have ever been on. By far the most productive four hours I have ever spent fishing in the Gulf. I will pass your business cards around to my friends at the office. I also have a business acquaintance that will be in the area sometime this summer and he will be very happy to hear of the success that we had with you. He will get your card. Top to bottom the “Trigger Happy” fishing service is a class act all the way.”
