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swords my 2 cents
After fishing for them off Miami, I would highly suggest using 80's. Many offshore anglers will attest that finding and hooking swords is the easy part ...successfully landing them is a different story. Most anglers like myself tha are used to tuna fishing with heavy drags end up pulling the hooks due to thier soft mouths. This is fustrating to say the least, most of the good capatins use 12-15# of drag and then allow the angler to slow the spool down with your hand
On that not it is imperative that you fish with light drags therefore the fish will make long sustained runs which dicatates line capacity. A 100# fish will easily dump a 50 in short time, they are without a doubt the hardest fighting fish I have ever caught and I dropped a 200# slob at the boat by putting too much heat on him during the end game and watched him mock me by fliping his big a** tail as he disapeared into the darkness. Patience is key, slow and steady wins the race
**Live bait is key, every trip I have been on the swords hit the livies
I fell in love with swording, watching a lightstick race across the surface is awesome in the darkness.
here are some of our pictures from Miami two months ago these were both Anthonys fish, i lost my big boy
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