Man, do I want to kick myself in the bag. Met up with Frank and his daughter today heading for the 9 to do some Sharkin. Got bait and was out there early on for a beautiful day.
Found some lettuce and started chummin for not much. Did see some Skippy or Bonie lookin stuff cruise and jump on bait, wish we coulda hung a couple.
About noon we move again, this time right on top of the 9 and right away we all yell.......SWORD!
I'm on the 50 wide like stink while Frank brings the boat around for a pass. I knew we'd have to set it up just right or forget it. This fish is hunting, circling and looking for some bait that the Dolphins were chewing up. You could tell by the amount of birds in the area diving. We make one big sweeping turn and it's almost perfect. (cept for dipshit me leaving the 50 in low). The Sword crosses over and I see the line right between his fins 15 feet too far Death_To_ . No worries, this fish isn't scared so we turn to do it again.
Well, he's starting to get pissed but still looks like he would take a bait. We stop and here he comes about 25 out on a track to run into the bait or us.
Then he JUMPS right at us!!! All 3 of us yell WHOA!! This thing is between 3 and 4 bills easy!! I have never seen a Swordfish this big up close and I am now shakin
He was full of vinegar and ready to tear our asses up!!!
We try 2 more times to get a Jumbo dino in front of him as he is still boxing his little area looking for bait.
Humbug----------- we see him about 10 feet in front of the boat..SHIT!! That's all she wrote.
Man I've baited, hooked (lost) and seen a lot of Swordies before but not this size.
The swords are out there in numbers, the sword boats are knocken em out. If you want a shot at one of these now is the time. We are gonna be out next week taken a shot at em. Damn flattie tourney
Damn Deer season.
Dicked with this guy for at least 20 minutes. Next time gotta have some good sized macks or bones or even skippies. Hell those dink yellows would be perfect. With the 50 wide and 80 lb we would have been on this fish forever but in 500 feet of water doable. I think Frank is hooked
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