Ran out last night in hopes of catching my first sword since everyone has been talking about how awesome it is. Left Jupiter at 5:15 and ran south to 1300 ft. off Palm Beach. Put out 3 squid and within minutes I see a one of the green sticks swimming away. I come tight on him but pull the hook. 0-1. About 10 minutes later, we get anoher hit and this time it starts pulling line pretty good. So I let him eatfor a while and were on. We are fishing 50 Wide Tiagra's. About 15 minutes goes by and I see the wax thread come on the spool that we used to mark 300ft. Needless to say the fish wasn't having any of that. To make a long story short, 2 1/2 hrs. later, and 1 broken fighting belt later we had the leader and sank 2 gaffs in him. Back at the scales he weighed in at 137 lbs. I have seen alot of Swordfish caught but never caught one. 2 of the Guy's with me work on Charter Boats and they both said they had never seen a swordfish make those kind of long, fast runs. On one run he pulled off about 400 yds. of mono and another 200 yds. of Dacron. Needless to say I am a little sore today.
