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Dennis, Taylor, and Tyler from Iowa booked the charter boat, Happy Day Today, for a fishing charter. Dennis owns his own freshwater tackle shop and wanted to get offshore for some saltwater deep-sea fishing action. The guys wanted to have fun catching some fish to put on the grill. We had nice condi...

A nice family chartered the Happy Day Today with the Top Shot Sportfishing Team out of Ft. Lauderdale looking to target a Sailfish, so I went to the drawing board to plan for the day. Considering the time of the year being winter and January, one of the better months to target Sailfish, we were exci...

We had a new customer book us for a half day of fishing aboard the "Happy Day Today" in our 52' Hatteras Sportfish. The guys were from Wisconsin, and this was their first time down in South Florida, looking to have a fun day offshore and bring some fish home to eat. We departed from our ma...

Richard Strom and his grandsons were down in Fort Lauderdale for some deep-sea fishing. Everyone arrived around 7:30 am excited, and we departed from Bahia Mar aboard the 52’ Hatteras Sportfish. The first mate and I welcomed the boys and went over the fishing tackle and a game plan of which fish to ...

A group of friends from Jacksonville, Florida chartered the Topshot Sportfishing Charter Boat Team for a morning deep-sea adventure. We left Bahia Mar, where the boat is docked, and started heading out of the inlet with calm seas and light easterly winds. We started the trip trolling in 200 ft. of w...

We had a great day deep sea fishing with the Vanover Automotive Group from Virginia on board the Happy Day Today with the Top Shot Sportfishing team. The guys were down in Fort Lauderdale on vacation and wanted to catch some fish and have fun. We left Bahia Mar and started heading to the fishing gro...

We left the dock at Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale around 7:30 am and headed offshore with a group of longtime friends, who were looking to catch some fish and have a great time. We started the day at the sea buoy in 115 ft. of water putting out a couple of deep planner lines with sea witches a...

We started the morning with nice weather, easterly winds, clear blue skies, and some scattered weeds. The group drove over from the west coast of Florida to fish out of Fort Lauderdale as we have deep waters only a few miles offshore. On average, in 20 minutes from leaving the marina, we will be fis...

April has been a good month fishing off Fort Lauderdale with good trolling, kite fishing and bottom fishing catching Mahi Mahi, Tuna, Sailfish, Shark, Bonita and King Mackerel. The Top Shot Sportfishing Charter Boat team fished a 6-hour morning charter on Monday with Ben and his son, Garrett, from P...

Today we had long time repeat customers and friends who booked the Top Shot Sportfishing Charter Team for the morning fishing charter out of Fort Lauderdale on board the Happy Day Today. They have fished with us for over the last two decades and, as always, we were very excited to have them back out...

We have had a productive month targeting pelagic species. The Mahi Mahi bite recently showed some promise with a few days seeing 4 to 5 Mahi’s. Some days, the fishing out of Fort Lauderdale can be slow for Mahi Mahi, and some days are good; it really depends on the conditions and the schools of fish...

Live bait fishing out of Fort Lauderdale can be one of the most productive ways to target Sailfish. Depending on the time of the year, wind, and wind direction, current, bait, and previous catches will determine what method we will use during the fishing charter out of Fort Lauderdale. I do like tar...

On February 1st we had a half day fishing charter with a group from Ohio who were down on vacation. They were looking to have some fun fishing with the Topshot Sportfishing team and target some edible fish. We had a nice morning with some scattered clouds, cool weather and departed off the dock at B...

We started out the day with nice weather, wind blowing 10 mph out of the east with a couple feet chop. Our fishing group wanted to catch some edible fish and try some live bait wreck fishing, so the first thing we did was put a chum bag in the water and started catching live Blue Runners, which are ...

Early November has continued to be a good month for trolling and wreck fishing. We have been catching Mahi Mahi, Sailfish and Black Fin Tuna in depths ranging from 80 feet of water out to 500 feet of water - some days it’s easier to narrow down the bite and others there is no rhyme or reason. Bait s...