So are any of you fellas deep dropping for swords during the daytime yet? As I am sure you know, this is all the rage down in FL. From what I have seen on the Offshore Reports board, it looks like they are indeed off our coast here as well in numbers. I don’t have the rig to get this deep, or I would be all about trying to figure this fishery out…
no one will believe us but about a week ago we were at the Edisto 60 anchored and chumming we had a cloud of bait fish all around us. there were cobia,cuda all sorts of fish. We had a hit on the bottom with a whole ballyhoo. Assumed it was a shark even though we had a fluro leader. Almost spooled us. An hour into the fight we saw the dorsal fin and it did not look right. A half hour later we saw the tail fin. Sword fish and big. A half hour later it was about 25 ft from the boat braid cut smoothly on what we believe was the bill. I have keys for years and heard of one big one day time in about 40 ft . the fish do not always read where there supposed to be. Believe it or not
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You are right. You should be able to catch them on the bottom in the daytime here. If they are in the upper part of the water column at night that only leaves one place for them to go in the daytime. Down !!! I have all the rods, gear and rigs ready sitting in a pile in my garage ready to go!!! I can’t manage to get any of my crew to go try it with me. I would like to find a couple of guys that would be willing to dedicate a couple of trips to just day dropping. I think we would surprise ourselves.
A swordfish at the Edisto 60??? And a big one to boot??? If that truly happened, and it was truly a swordfish, and I’m not saying it was not, that’s got to be the most incredible thing I’ve heard of in a long time.
I can not get excited about reeling a 150 lb fish up from depths >1500 feet. That is why nobody tries for them here.
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Yet people ■■■■■ to the OBX for a 2 hr fight fight with a bluefin. A fish that’s only eaten as sushi. I guess it’s great if you can sell the thing, but can rec anglers do that?? Who eats that much raw fish this side of Tokyo??
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Originally posted by awesomefishingno one will believe us
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>You are right… Heck, he was only 50nm from deep water. Would have probably changed into a hammerhead by the time you got him into the boat.
quote:Doubt you are correct. It's probably because of the effort it takes to do it around here including expensive tackle, fuel, etc. A few bigger boats have done it, but all it takes is for someone to really "pioneer" it around here, have some success, and then lot's more people will do it.
Originally posted by tcrankI can not get excited about reeling a 150 lb fish up from depths >1500 feet. That is why nobody tries for them here.
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I don’t question someone hooking a sword in shallow as I have seen some strange things in my life on the water and one of them was a sword in 120 ft. of water in FL. while fishing a tournament in the middle of the day,it actually jumped twice and wasn’t that big but i know what i saw.
Why not go drift some squid during the full-moon,you don’t need a $4000.00 reel and rod to do that???
it was no hammerhead. I have landed them up to 13 ft . tail and dorsal were dead give away. Large one caught middle of day in 40 ft in keys. Strange yep . As strange as the sail fish caught on the flats. Im sure it was there because of the large school of bait. Can it happen again ?
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Originally posted by skinneejquote:Doubt you are correct. It's probably because of the effort it takes to do it around here including expensive tackle, fuel, etc. A few bigger boats have done it, but all it takes is for someone to really "pioneer" it around here, have some success, and then lot's more people will do it.
Originally posted by tcrankI can not get excited about reeling a 150 lb fish up from depths >1500 feet. That is why nobody tries for them here.
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It already has been pioneered here. Just because it hasn’t been posted on the internet or written about doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened…
we have done a few night time sword trips,to many other species to fish for during the day
I think it has to do with how far offshore you have to go here to target them. It is just much easier to catch fish targeting different more abundant species. In Florida they are off the cost 20 NM. Here it is more like 65. That is a big difference for the weekend warrior. He has to give up a most likely good weather, productive day to chase something that hasn’t been done.
With that said. I am down to take my boat and gear if someone knows where they are.
We have tried deep dropping for swords 3 times out of charleston. Hooked up first time but lost it due to undersized tackle. Second time current was ripping and we couldnt reach bottom. 3 rd attempt we kept getting distracted by mahi marauding our drift baits and i’m pretty sure our sword bait spent less time on the bottom than it should have. Nightime we went one for two on the one night we were out. Of course you have to pick your days but I don’t see much difference between deep dropping for swords or trolling around 226 hole all day for a shot at a marlin or two…except those swords sure taste good!
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quote:I'm pretty sure that I said a few boats have already done it... The point is that it's a lot of effort and there is not a widespread perception of success by the massses (or at least enough people) for it to catch on like wild fire... Once there is a widespread perception of success, then it may just catch on. But it's not simply because people don't like reeling up fish from 1500' as tcrank put it...
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Originally posted by skinneejquote:Doubt you are correct. It's probably because of the effort it takes to do it around here including expensive tackle, fuel, etc. A few bigger boats have done it, but all it takes is for someone to really "pioneer" it around here, have some success, and then lot's more people will do it.
Originally posted by tcrankI can not get excited about reeling a 150 lb fish up from depths >1500 feet. That is why nobody tries for them here.
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It already has been pioneered here. Just because it hasn’t been posted on the internet or written about doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened…
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Originally posted by silkyWhy not go drift some squid during the full-moon,you don’t need a $4000.00 reel and rod to do that???
BINGO!!!
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So who wants to give it a crack? I figured some of you boys were already onto this bite…
We are going to give it a try Saturday night and would love for another boat to be out there with us. Plan on leaving the dock around noon and trolling till sunset then dropping some squid for a couple hours.
Have you ever caught any TrebbleTrouble?