Black Hall Marina's guided kayak fishing charters drop you right into one of Southern New England's most productive fisheries, the tidal rivers, salt marshes, and flats surrounding the Great Island Estuary. You'll launch from our Old Lyme dock aboard an Old Town Sportsman PDL, a pedal-drive kayak that keeps your hands free for what actually matters: casting, fighting, and landing fish. Our guide knows these waters intimately, and he'll adjust the day on the fly, chasing striper blitzes, working a bluefish bite, or slipping into a quiet back-creek where the fluke are sitting.
Every 4-hour charter includes your kayak, a rod-and-reel combo, bait, lures, and terminal tackle, a PFD, and all the tools you'll need to land, handle, and release a fish, fish grips, net, pliers, and first aid if it ever comes to it. You're welcome to bring your own rod if you have a favorite, but otherwise just pack sunglasses, weather-appropriate clothing, a waterproof jacket, water shoes or boots, a towel, a dry change of clothes, and a camera. The fish stories are yours to keep; the photo evidence is up to you.
Charters run seven days a week from May 10 through October 31, with morning trips launching at 7:00 AM and afternoon trips at 2:00 PM. Sessions are capped at three anglers to keep the experience personal and the fishing productive, and your guide will read the tides, the wind, and the bite to put you on the best water that day.
