Holy Smokes Fishing Charters

Holy Smokes Fishing Charters is a fishing operation run by Captain Dan out of a New Smyrna Beach address on North Causeway, using a twenty five foot center console boat rigged for both deep water trolling and bottom fishing as well as shallower intracoastal work. The charter’s own site describes trips launching from several points along Florida’s central Atlantic coast, including New Smyrna Beach, Daytona Beach, Ponce Inlet, Port Canaveral, and Sebastian Inlet, which is broader than the single home port model of some other local charters, though its listed business address places it in New Smyrna Beach.

Trips are booked by appointment seven days a week rather than on a fixed schedule, a common arrangement for a small, owner operated charter where the captain is also the person answering the phone and running the boat. Offshore trips focus on deep water trolling for pelagic species and bottom fishing over structure, while the boat is also capable of working shallower intracoastal and inshore water when conditions or client preference call for it, giving the charter flexibility across the range of fishing New Smyrna Beach’s location makes possible, from the protected Mosquito Lagoon flats to the open Atlantic beyond Ponce de Leon Inlet.

No Florida fishing license requirement is placed on clients, since a licensed charter captain’s fishing license typically covers everyone aboard under Florida law, a detail worth knowing for visitors who assume they need to purchase a separate license before booking a trip. Trips accommodate up to four anglers, keeping the boat at a size and capacity suited to families or small groups rather than larger group charters.

The fact that Holy Smokes runs trips from multiple ports along the central Florida coast rather than exclusively from New Smyrna Beach is worth noting for anyone expecting a charter based solely in town, though the listed business address does place its home base within New Smyrna Beach city limits. As a small, single boat operation without the infrastructure of a larger charter fleet, it fits the profile of an independent local fishing business even with that multi port flexibility, and its offshore capability fills a niche among New Smyrna Beach area charters that more commonly focus on inshore lagoon fishing alone. Anglers booking with Holy Smokes should specify New Smyrna Beach as the preferred departure point when scheduling, given the captain’s stated flexibility to launch from other central Florida ports depending on conditions, target species, or client preference, since a trip departing from a different marina would change the drive and logistics for anyone planning around a New Smyrna Beach stay specifically.