I'm not sure what pier that those sails are coming from, but I do know that my friend caught one of legal size that died from being tail wrapped while fishing from a pier this year in the panhandle.
There may be more to those pictures than you know..Just saying.... And the pic in your first post looks like it was tail wrapped at one point in the fight from the bruises.
Oh yea, Nice first post

Oh and just so you know the law has changed that your not allowed to remove a billfish from the water unless your intent is to kill it.
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