Hi, I'm Captain Butch Ford. I was born in Portsmouth New Hampshire, and grew up spending the school years in Kingston, N.Y., and summers on the coast of New Hampshire.

   Fishing, and amature wrestling were the things that filled my time when I wasn't in class! After graduating from Plymouth State, in Plymouth N.H., I went fishing for a living.

   I have been involved in many commercial fisheries, including, off-shore lobstering, gillnetting, and swordfishing. I worked on charter boats out of Clearwater some winters during the 1980's, and moved here full time in 1989. I started working on the Phantom as a deckhand in 1992, and bought the business in 2006.

   You won't find a charter captain who will work harder to make your day perfect!