Captain Brent Hancock
Background & History

One of the most knowledgeable and consistant Charter Captains on the east coast of Florida, Captain Brent has proven himself over the last three decades as an awesome producer of quality fish around Port Canaveral Florida just minutes east of Orlando.

Starting before he could drive at an early age, Brent would ask his Aunt to launch his small boat out of Port Canaveral where he would putt alone out to sea only to be picked up in the evening with fish for the grill and a tired smile on his face. Brent's enthusiasm for fishing started young growing up in on Florida's west coast fishing where at a young age he honed his angling skills and traveled on the weekends to visit his uncle and friends on the east coast fishing Canaveral as often as he could.

Eventually Brent moved to the east coast of Florida settling near Cocoa Beach adjacent to Port Canaveral. Running his twenty five foot Sea Vee named the Sea Dreamer for several years before being asked on to run the Obsession for Sunrise Marina during the early 1990's... and the rest is history.

Captain Brent Hancock
Obsession Fishing Charters, Port Canaveral Florida

Canaveral has been the home for Captain Brent Hancock for well over twenty years and a favorite spot for anglers to come and fish on his boat The Obsession. Capt. Brent's boat is well known as a top producer and often coming to the dock with a great catch almost daily showing on the fish hanging board at Sunrise Marina next to it's Grills Restaurant and it's Tiki Bar.

Port Canaveral Fishing Tournament Captain

Brent enjoys competing in local fishing tournaments out of Port Canaveral. He's been a consistant scorer in many of the large fishing circuits like the Southern Kingfish Association Tournament (SKA) or Locally sponsored fishing tournaments in the greater Orlando, Florida and Brevard County area. Here's a list of some Space Coast Fishing Tournaments that Captain Brent has competed in.

Cobia Jamborie 1st (1991) & 3rd in a following year.
SKA (Port Canaveral) 2nd
FSFA Grand Prize, 2nd place Top Boat, Top Lady Anglers (3 yrs.) 1st place Cobia

"Much of my success in tournaments and in my everyday fishing is due to my years of local knowledge of our waters and areas combined with using livebaiting techniques that I've refined over time and of course a little luck and patience." explains Captain Brent when asked about his fishing experience.

When Brents not fishing (which is rare), you may find him trekking up north to his hunting camp for a few weeks a year where he's at home hunting whitetail deer, hiking and scouting the woods, loading feeders and sitting by the camp fire. His enthusiam for the outdoors carries over into almost all areas of his life.

Being born and raised on Florida's west coast Brent quickly swapped over it's East Coast for it's spectacular and diverse fishing. Living in Tampa for his youngest years, Brent often visited family and friends on the Atlantic side and found these waters "more to his liking", according to Brent himself.

"I've always enjoyed the fishing on the east coast where there seems to be a more diverse fishery from deep sea palegics like king mackerel and dolphin to benthic bottom fish like snapper and grouper. While the fishing has changed over the years, I've responded by changing my fishing tactics and following the fisheries more closly."

Sightfishing for cobia is probably Brent's favorite type of fishing which more often starts in the spring around March (depending on water temperatures) and continues into the early summer. "It's a kick when you find loads of fish on a big manta ray and present baits and lures to these tremendous fish. Many anglers have never had the opportunity to cast at large free swimming fish and have them attack with such ferousity as a cobia does often."