Our Story
SHARK GUY OUTDOORS
We seek to be your South Florida adventure chaperones and take you on one of our adventures to make a memory of a lifetime. If there is anything additional or if you have special requests to make the event more personal or wonderful, please let us know.
We also believe there isn’t anything we can’t do, so if you have any question (regardless, of how impossible it may seem), please ask. We like to think we can meet anybody’s needs.
MISSIONS& VALUES
Shark Guy Outdoors seeks to help create memories for you and your family that will last a lifetime. We also believe that we must be stewards of the Earth. We do that through education and sharing the “why” behind what’s needed to keep our local fisheries, land, and sea ecosystems dynamic and healthy to benefit us all.
Join us to witness the wonders of South Florida and become an ecosystem warrior today!
sgo Partners
Our mission at SHARK GUY OUTDOORS is to design a program to make a lifetime memory for you and your family. Whether you want to kayak through the mangroves to spot wild manatee and dolphins or collect sea urchins and crab with our guide Sea Biscuit or go digging up million-year-old megalodon teeth and animal vertebrae, you will not be disappointed.
Shark Guy Beach Fishing will put you on shark from local, beautiful Sarasota white sand beaches to enjoy a sunset and land a Blacktip shark on one of our 15ft surf casters. Tell us what you’d like to do to make a memory of a lifetime, and we’ll make it happen!
GET TO KNOW ROB
Remaking yourself after a 30-year corporate career isn’t fun or easy. But the world happens and sometimes things in the world don’t work out, so when you have a family to feed, sometimes you need to switch gears and remake yourself.
Know it’s possible.
When considering the next chapter of my family’s life, I was drawn to my passion of fishing. I spent my formative high school years fishing the bay and seas of Sarasota while my grandparents wintered on Longboat Key. I spent weeks and months hunting snook, redfish, grouper, and pompano in paradise. Never could I imagine that one day I’d call this place home.
This corner of Earth is paradise and is often mistaken for heaven (except in the steamy summer). When Covid-19 hit my family, we left Chicago and moved to paradise. I set up my residency, found a home, and started importing fishing equipment. This job is my dream of a lifetime and all I want to do is work as hard as I can to make you happy and put a smile on your face.
Trust SHARK GUY OUTDOORS to enhace your experience in paradise.
GET TO KNOW SEABISCUIT
My name is DJ, but everyone calls me Seabiscuit, the biscuit of the sea. I moved to Florida to find adventure. Growing up in sportsman paradise (Louisiana), I was a big outdoors lover as a kid, playing with the local wildlife - alligators, raccoons, snakes, etc.
I’ve kayaked for over 12 years in Louisiana and Florida. Two years in the beautiful oasis that we call paradise - Sarasota. I treat everyone on the water like family because that’s what’s most important, just like back home.
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Let the good times roll!
WE ARE STEWARDS OF THE EARTH
PRESERVATION & CONSERVATION
Let’s work together to make this ecosystem healthy and sustainable!
Here’s how:
1. Pick up all plastic bags anywhere near the water. Sea Turtles mistake plastic bags in the water for jellyfish, which they feed on. By throwing away plastic bags or fishing them out of the water you could save the life of a sea turtle.
2. Slow down. When boating in paradise, ALWAYS be alert for dark shapes in the water. Look for air bubbles in the water. Manatees are some of the most serene animals in the world, but they move extremely slowly. They are mammals and breathe air and surface when doing so, be careful not to run them over. Take care to always be on the lookout while on the water to keep these animals safe.
3. Educate yourself about Red Tide and its effects. Engage in debate to reduce fertilizers entering fisheries causing fish kills. Red Tide can cause thousands of TONS of fish to be killed each year. Modifying the amount of phosphates in the water can directly save hundreds of thousands of fish and other marine life.