Singing the Swordfish Blues..

A friend of mine is a big fish nut.

He will go anywhere to try for large fish of any description.
When he said he was off to Croatia & the blue fin tuna in the Adriatic Sea, I suggested he take these...



They are 4 & 5" long & weigh 1.5oz. A bit small but they do cast well.

Anyway, they were drifting & chunking for the big blues, with fish baits on the lines.
Not much happening, other than a 40lb. stingray, not bad on a mid-water bait (in 500 feet!). Then bonito start jumping & busting all over..
A shoal is 150 yards off the beam, it draws closer.. so Jon grabs his spinning gear & launches the lure on the left of the picture at the approaching fish.. he can cast about 75 - 80 yards with that lure & the fish were still getting closer.
He was very excited.
He tells me the lure got hit several times, then the rod wacked right over as something large nailed the plug.. an amazingly powerful hit, he says.
He yelled out ''Fish on!".. the drag started to scream..
Then it got off.. the line fell slack.. & a swordfish free-jumped off the end of his line. Explains the multiple strikes & a neat groove over the back of the plug, apparently. He thinks the leader just wrapped briefly round the bill.
Not many swordfish are taken on lures, so it would have been a real special day for him (me too, what a result that would have been).

He thinks the fish was up feeding on the bonito, hanging on the edge of the shoal, between him & them, so his lure landed right by it & it couldn't resist!

What might have been but it's a good story.

Here's a fish he got conventially elsewhere..



You might like the hooks on those lures, Owner D41's. Apparently the tuna fishermen down off the Keys swear by them, lose less fish with the single tail double, than with trebles, they say.. comments?

Cheers everybody,
Hope you found that interesting,
Jim.

That is awesome! We never gets swords on top here - usually down very deep and mostly at night


Poppers for swordies - who wouda thunk it?

That's Jon's experience, too, Captain, he was most surprised!
The fish was spotted several times during the day, at one point poking his bill out the water & waggling it about (???).
The fish wasn't a big one, estimated at 50-70lbs but on a spinning rod, that might have proved a handful!

He's off to some obscure Pacific islands next; reroofing an orphanage for nothing, just because he's out there & that's what he does for a living, the rest of the week will be spent throwing out hardware for GT's!!! Big ones.

I am endeavoring to construct some suitably armour-plated poppers for just those fish.. through-wired to go through Hell & back, these fish may run 100lbs....

Awesome  

Awesome fish

nice plugs and nice fish

Beautiful catch ...someday I will catch one I hope