600lb Swordfish Caught

**tyurke** · 23-08-2005, 14:42

I was reading this on a friend in the states... He got this fish on handgear in about 3 hours of fighting time.

http://www.swordfishingcentral.com/f...shing1698.html

Good job mate.

**wrasse boy** · 23-08-2005, 14:53

holy shi*

**PanamaJack** · 23-08-2005, 16:23

Wow! That's a tremendous fish!

And to think it was only 20 or so years ago that Florida straights fishery was in terminal decline through over fishing by long liners. Then came effective state regulation. Shows how it can work. Lessons for the UK, or should I more correctly say the EEC?

Just to put things into perspective though the World All-tackle Rod caught record's a fish nearly twice as big - 1182lbs from Chile in 1953.

**tyurke** · 23-08-2005, 16:54

Yes, the fishery off florida and most of the states was at its doom up to 1999, when they closed the area off to longline vessels.. 6 years later, my friends in soutfl have a legit shot a swordfish every night.. average fish going about 100 pounds.. I just hope they respect the fishery...

**beefcake** · 23-08-2005, 17:14

WOOOOOW!!! 600lbs
beefcake

**tyurke** · 23-08-2005, 17:30

The fish may have been around 650.. they finally found a scale to weigh it about 8 hours... the fish was iced and lost water wieght... The crew opted to give the meat away and get a few mounts made.

**rubberfrog** · 23-08-2005, 17:59

would like to have seen it swim free, now that would be a pic an half..........

**PanamaJack** · 23-08-2005, 21:05

Hi Tyurke
I don't know whether you've had much of an opportunity to explore the other forums on that site yet? Just glancing through the SHARK forum there're some amazing shots of Great Whites being fitted with satellite tags I suspect off the Farallon Islands, Southern California. The scientists are working alongside the fish in the water in a net cradle - here's the url - Tagging Great Whites. There's also some pictures of a 700lb plus Mako - 700lb Mako.
Dave

**tyurke** · 23-08-2005, 23:03

Nice.. just got word that the other 500 pounder pictures were just posted... the fish almost look identical.. caught just a few days apart.

http://www.swordfishingcentral.com/f...shing1682.html

The shark tagging pictures are unreal... I'd like to hear more about this.