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Being in the fishing business has it's perks. We get to spend all day on the water, seeing the excitement on our customers faces the first time the rod bends over the gunnel of the boat, and of course, we get to test new equipment. We took a trip d

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   Stephanie Mason grew up here in Fort Lauderdale, FL and moved to Ohio with husband Ted Mason.  They came back to Fort Lauderdale, FL last week for a family get toget

The cooler November weather brings a massive influx of baitfish to the Marathon waters ballyhoo most notably and with them come our wintertime pelagic species. A day of fishing starts by filling the live well with live ballyhoo as every … Read

Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 93% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 51% Dorado 53% Other 16%   BILLFISH: This week saw steady catches of striped marlin for a little more than half of the boats with a few sudden spikes of multiple

NAVARRE The last front flew through the area last Friday and Saturday putting a damper on things but the rest of the weekend and the first part of the week we say outstanding weather. Its pretty much been the story for the last couple of weeks so ho

Tuna in the Washington Canyon. Tunas on the troll on ballyhoo. Capt Todd and RL available Sunday Monday and next weekend October 8-9. Great weather and tuna bite. … Continue reading

Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 58% Numbers at a glance: Marlin 38% Other 28%     BILLFISH:   After a great couple of weeks of increasing catches and improvement in billfish rates this last week was a bit disappointing

The Black Fin Tunas have started to show up for us here in Fort Lauderdale. The size of the Tunas are smaller, weighing 6 to 12 pounds, but still are a lot of fun to catch and are great to eat. We look for birds diving, as well as the fish crashing

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   A friend of mine from Round-Up Country Western dance club, Mark Lashua, and his brother, Mike, along with friends, Alex and Chris, all from Fort Lauderdale chartered the Happ

Redd of Island Tackle reports that when the weather allows fishing at the Gulf Stream remains steady. Skirted ballyhoo and jet heads are producing nice wahoo. Blackfin and yellowfin tuna are also being caught. The best method has been using cedar plu

OFFSHORE: Nicest looking weekend forecast we've had in a while coming up. Sailfish action remains pretty good with most boats getting a few shots a trip. No big concentrations of fish anywhere from the sounds of things; more a steady pick up and

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   A family from Maryland, Daniel Hearn, father Stan, mother Carole and friend Bernell, chartered the Happy Day Today along with the Topshotfishing team to do some deep sea spor

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   Once again my old friend, Joe Florea, President of Aruba Construction, and his good friend and business associate, Rick Muller, from Nautica Management, from South Florida ch

Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 83% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 38% Other Species 63%  Bentley caught his 1st Marlin ever aboard our Tracy Ann. In 2 fishing trips our little friend and his dad Matthew released 1 striped marlin

August is a little early for the prime time blackfin tuna bite in my region but you can still find a lot of these fish on the offshore rigs. Those offshore rigs are loaded up with blackfin tuna year-round but most of those fish are small and the guy

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   Uncle and nephew, Anton Axefors and Lars Ekbers from Sweden were vacationing and visiting relatives here in Fort Lauderdale.  Their outdoor expedition included a vis

OFFSHORE- Not the best or the worst weekend forecast that we've seen lately. Sailfish action was a bit spotty this week but some boats did still manage to find a decent numbers (Others unfortunately had a hard time buying a bite!). Live baits (go

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   John Lopes and his kids, Jasper and Kira, from New Jersey along with their friends, Daniel and Mathew Cossa from New York, chartered the Topshotfishing team to do some deep s

I was fortunate enough to spend some time snorkeling with my daughter and a school of ballyhoo this past January!  I have put together a color combination that closely resembles them.  We will call this color combination the Tru Ballyhoo!!

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak     Six alumni’s of the University of Florida (Gators), Phil Newhall from St. Louis, Chris Bloomstran from St. Louis, Jay Brown from Gainesville, FL, Mike