Swordfish on a Jigmaster

[Roger]

I don't think the sword knew he was hooked till the gaffs hit him. Cool video though....

[Bryan Young]

Smooth drags, a good rod, patience and finese, anything is possible.

[broadway]

That was awesome!!....until they turned a great catch video into a tutorial on what not to do to a beautiful fish.  Every piece of that fish/meat had a gaff in it, they chopped his sword off,  let him flop on that hot deck for how many minutes? I don't know how/what they could have done differently because I don't fish swords and don't know their behaviors, but that looked ugly and unprofessional.  I will say KUDOS to that angler...he did a beautiful job!!!
Dom

[Phinaddict]

Well said Dom.
One of the deckhands should have given that fish the bat before it came over the rail.
Generally, red decks equal a successful day on the water; but, as you said,  this could have
been handled much differently.
--->Getting off my soapbox now......

[Dan]

Yeah, what Dom said. I don't know anything about fishing swordfish. We don't have those over here but that video just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

[Irish Jigger]

The very ugly face of our sport recorded for all the World to see. I am disgusted that the deckies were obviously unable to handle a catch like that. A very sad and bloody end for such a beautiful creature. Not a good ad for an outfit that needs to educate its crew. Name and shame I say!

[CaptDavDavis01]

I couldnt tell if the bill broke when they decked it, or if it was taken off by one of the rednecks.  I could however see 6 or seven gaff in it when they finally had it on deck... Kinda sad actually. They pretty much ruined the whole thing(unless you actually enjoy eating the bullet wound/blood clotted areas)


I chock this upto the 3P's.... piss poor performace...on the boats crew, the angler did a good job on finesing it to the  boat.