Gulf Coast charter booking
Keep more of every booking. Book direct.
Port Aransas, Galveston, Orange Beach, Pensacola. TideBook connects Gulf Coast captains directly with anglers. No middleman. A flat 8 percent booking fee, nothing more.
List trips and set availability
Create your trip cards — half-day, full-day, inshore, offshore. Set your own prices, your own dates, your own rules. You control what anglers see and when they can book.
Anglers book direct
No middleman on the water. Anglers find your listing and book straight through your TideBook page. The booking fee is a flat 8 percent. The rest goes to you.
You keep 92 percent
Payment hits your account after the trip. No monthly fee to get started. No chasing invoices. Just a clean deposit from every booking, straight from the angler.
Captain shares the link
Every captain on TideBook has a direct booking page. Share it from the dock, from Instagram, from a text. Regulars bookmark it and come back on their own.
Browse real trips
See the actual captain, the actual boat, and the actual trips available — not a generic listing. Port Aransas, Galveston, Orange Beach, Pensacola. Pick what fits your group.
Book and show up
Pay online, get a confirmation, and show up at the dock. Nothing to print. The captain has your booking. You have a trip.
Roy runs inshore trips out of Port Aransas. Under agency booking, a $600 trip left him $180 after commission and card fees. He sets his own schedule, marks his own weather calls, and his regulars book direct.
- Booking fee
- 8%
- You keep
- 92%
- Monthly fee to start
- None
- Weather call
- Yours
For captains who want more
Billed monthly. Cancel any time. Available after your first completed booking.
- Priority placement in Gulf Coast search results.
- Verified featured-captain badge visible to every angler on TideBook.
- Private analytics dashboard: trips booked, revenue tracked over time.
- Subregion cap at 10 to 15 captains keeps the badge meaningful.
Digital liability waivers and automated weather-cancellation handling built into your dashboard. Anglers sign before departure. Your weather call stays yours.
Available after MVP launch.
Pro status is earned, not bought. You need one completed TideBook booking before the upgrade is available.
Common questions
What captains and anglers ask first.
More questions? Write to us at tidebook@sogoodmail.co.
For captains
List your first trip before the season opens.
Early-access captains get first pick of subregion availability and direct support during setup.
Port Aransas. Galveston. Orange Beach. Pensacola.
Galveston, TX
October redfish, specs, and kings are running now.
Six priced Galveston trips for inshore bay fishing and nearshore action. Half-day from $300 per boat. No charge to request.
Galveston tripsFor Anglers
Book direct from the captain who knows these waters.
TideBook connects you with independent Gulf Coast captains who set their own schedules and answer their own phones. No middlemen. No markups.
Port Aransas, Texas