We had an exceptional swordfishing charter this week…. as soon as the bait hit the bottom, the fish hit. We fought the fish for about 45 minutes before we got him to the surface. He took some small runs during the course of the fight, but no fast/hard runs as you would expect from a fish this size. As soon as the fish came within sight of the boat, the fish went ballistic. He thrashed and shook his head, made a crazy fast run and jumped out of the water. Continue reading →

It wasn’t long before we got the first bite. It ate the flat line, the one bait we had only 30 feet off the back of the boat. It wasn’t a big swordfish, but a swordfish none-the-less. We caught him in about 20 minutes. It was strong for such a small one. We had him on our closest line, which was also our lightest tackle rod accordingly. The fish was almost legal, only an inch short. We pulled the fish up and released him. Continue reading →

Josh heard the engines start up and knew what that meant. Josh shouted, “Everybody wind in fast, we’re going to have to chase this fish down.” Great team effort by everyone because by this time, the fish had pulled off most of the line off the reel. Captain Adam was forced to start chasing the fish down before we even had all the other lines in. The angler moved up towards the bow pulpit and Captain Adam moved the boat in the direction the line was headed. The rest of the anglers got their lines in, and we began the fight. We had only just begun. Continue reading →

Yahooooo! It was a helluva Friday night swordfishing trip this week. After the last 3 trips of only getting a few bites and NO boated fish, this weeks trip, we finally got a couple. The Friday night swordfishing trip on 3/14/08 was when we got these huge ones. It was a nice night out there, good weather and a full boat. We got our first bite in the first 20 mins. It was a huge fish, probably about a 150 pounder. We got him in the boat and you could hear the cheering for miles. Continue reading →

Once we had all the baits out again, we get a nice bite on the tip line. Hooked up! We fight the fish up to the boat in about 10 minutes. It was a windy night and we were getting pushed away from the fish, so the fight was twice as hard. When we got him to the boat, the fish was a couple inches short so we released him. So, we set back up and after a little while we get hooked up on something really nice. Now this was a big fish. Continue reading →