My First Swordfish

Location
hundred square

Fishing Report
fished 10/2 10/3 Hudson canyon on Dr joe lalia boat foot fixer we trolled till sunset with no takers and setup for some night chunking we had big blue sharks all night tearing all the baits up biting thru leaders all night we caught a few but was hard keep the baits in some times it was 4to 5 rods at once we had 6 lines tangled in a blue shark while we were re rigging i put out a penn 30 single speed with a butterfish at 45' so we have something in the water for mr tuna in the far corner were the green light is as the squid were hanging back there out of reach of the net we just got the blueshark cleared from all lines and this rod goes off iam like this better not be a blue this swordfish comes out of the water at the boat and goes down 200' now its game on fighting this fish 1hour 20min it was brought boatside and gaffed and in the boat this was my first swordfish and Dr joes 11 swordfish that was caught on his boat in 25 years going to the canyons it weighed in at burnetts at 129lbs
we trolled in the morning for one lonely mai mai under the lobster pots and headed home we had a great time as usual with good friends Dr joe rick zappia mike big guy


robert highland