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.

A Gulf Coast charter boat on the water at golden hour, Port Aransas
For captains

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.

For anglers

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.

How a TideBook trip listing will look to an angler
The numbers, plain
$180 lefton a $600 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.

Independent Gulf Coast captain on his charter boat at golden hour
Booking fee
8%
You keep
92%
Monthly fee to start
None
Weather call
Yours

For captains who want more

Captain Pro
$29/mo

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.
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Waiver and Weather Policy Bundle
$9/moComing soon

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.

No monthly fee until you are ready. We will confirm your port before going live.

Port Aransas. Galveston. Orange Beach. Pensacola.

For 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.

A family standing at the rail of a Gulf Coast charter boat, holding up a fresh catch at golden hour

Port Aransas, Texas

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