I rented a pontoon from Captain's 2 years ago for the bass opener. My review may be biased due to the poor fishing and worse weather. Due to the weather, the fishing was less than ideal. They did provide all safety equipment and whatnot. I thought they opened at 9 on the weekend, but cannot recall exactly. They told us that we were only to go so far up the lake. The pontoon was overloaded on one side at one point, ad the deck was submerged for a second. I had no complaints with their service. The pontoon was a little underpowered with a 25 hp motor and 8 people on the boat. BUt the lack of fish soured me that day lol.