Texas Swordfish

starlinmarlin · 08-10-2005, 06:16 PM

Note: This post if about a month old, just joined the board and thought I would share a Texas swordfish post.

Cleared Matagorda jetties around 7:00 pm friday night July 3rd headed off the shelf in the Jolie Fisher with a crew of Alan Starling, his son Bucky, Robbie Aycock, and myself. Made it to the shelf around 10:30pm and baits went into the water. At 2:30am one of the 50w's started to scream. Robbie cleared lines and I settled into the chair while Alan ran the throttles. After 15 minutes we could see our light stick glowing in the water about 50 yards off the starboard gunnel. Within 20 minutes, we had a swordfish in the boat. It taped 64", 96" overall after it broke off about an inch when we hauled over the gunnel. The fish weighed in at 135lb's gutted when we made it in, I'm guessing the fish was around 150lb's. We made two more drifts losing a pup close to the boat and had the leader part on another larger fish which we believe to have also been a sword due to the chafing on the leader.
Starter trolling at daylight and around 9:00 am we had the starboard flat go off. BIG marlin, almost spooled the 50w before we could get lines cleared. Almost empty on line Alan pushes the drag past strike to full and the crimp on the wind-on leader fails. After looking closer at the crimp, I made a rookie mistake and had used a 400# crimp on 300# mono, bummer.
Stopped trolling around noon and made some deep drops before heading in. Managed to box a few yellowedge and snowy grouper as well as a longtail seabass. Stopped on the way in and caught a few snapper and called it a day.
Made it to the dock at 7:30 and my wife and friends were waiting with the grill fired up. Fresh Swordy steaks, hard to beat!!!

Tight Lines and Flat Seas,
Rory Starling

Mike · 08-10-2005, 10:09 PM

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing

CaboBound · 08-11-2005, 09:20 AM

That is a great catch. WTG!

samuil · 09-26-2005, 11:50 PM

Wow thats a cool catch

Has the Hurricane affected the area recently?

arnau · 09-27-2005, 12:15 AM

Thats a nce one

Every pic is seen here are catches at night or evenings. So it confirms that Swords bite at night

Heard Texas is not really affected.
Been out lately?

08-10-2005, 06:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
starlinmarlin Grunt Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: El Campo, Texas Boat: Fishing & Hunting Occupation: Project Manager Posts: 6	Texas Swordfish Note: This post if about a month old, just joined the board and thought I would share a Texas swordfish post. Cleared Matagorda jetties around 7:00 pm friday night July 3rd headed off the shelf in the Jolie Fisher with a crew of Alan Starling, his son Bucky, Robbie Aycock, and myself. Made it to the shelf around 10:30pm and baits went into the water. At 2:30am one of the 50w's started to scream. Robbie cleared lines and I settled into the chair while Alan ran the throttles. After 15 minutes we could see our light stick glowing in the water about 50 yards off the starboard gunnel. Within 20 minutes, we had a swordfish in the boat. It taped 64", 96" overall after it broke off about an inch when we hauled over the gunnel. The fish weighed in at 135lb's gutted when we made it in, I'm guessing the fish was around 150lb's. We made two more drifts losing a pup close to the boat and had the leader part on another larger fish which we believe to have also been a sword due to the chafing on the leader. Starter trolling at daylight and around 9:00 am we had the starboard flat go off. BIG marlin, almost spooled the 50w before we could get lines cleared. Almost empty on line Alan pushes the drag past strike to full and the crimp on the wind-on leader fails. After looking closer at the crimp, I made a rookie mistake and had used a 400# crimp on 300# mono, bummer. Stopped trolling around noon and made some deep drops before heading in. Managed to box a few yellowedge and snowy grouper as well as a longtail seabass. Stopped on the way in and caught a few snapper and called it a day. Made it to the dock at 7:30 and my wife and friends were waiting with the grill fired up. Fresh Swordy steaks, hard to beat!!! Tight Lines and Flat Seas, Rory Starling

08-10-2005, 10:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mike Grander Join Date: May 2004 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Boat: Coming Soon! Best Catch: 250lb Swordfish Posts: 1,351	Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing __________________ Fishing Reports

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08-11-2005, 09:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
CaboBound Grunt Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 8	That is a great catch. WTG!

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arnau Grunt Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 17	Thats a nce one Every pic is seen here are catches at night or evenings. So it confirms that Swords bite at night Heard Texas is not really affected. Been out lately?

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