Sword fight in the keys
Set up first drift in 1800' with lines set between 1000'-300' down. Had a beautiful 1.2 knt drift, but nada! Set up second drift in slightly deeper water and about halfway through drift pick up two of the slobs on sonar and not long after line that was down 700' starts to do the swordfish twitch. Fish on! After a brief but tedious battle sunk the steel into the beast, and it was death from above! Turned out to be a perfect 119 # specimen. Made three more drifts but only managed one more bite on a much larger fish that was released boat side. Sure wish we hadn't already killed the smaller one. Oh well after cleaning and stealing out the fish the swords bill will be cleaned and added to my neighbors " picked fence" of sword bills.
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