swordfish

busumark · September 17, 2007, 13:33:42 CET

24kg swordfish caught today with 200 hook long-line

kempy · September 17, 2007, 13:40:32 CET

very nice indeed bet your well happy with that 1

givella · September 17, 2007, 13:45:21 CET

Quote from: kempy on September 17, 2007, 13:40:32 CET
very nice indeed bet your well happy with that 1

Very nice and good work Busumark.
Were you far out or within the 12 miles?

busumark · September 17, 2007, 13:46:10 CET

about 7 miles from land

skip · September 17, 2007, 13:59:51 CET

Very very nice, would love to catch one on a rod but i know it's very hard in Malta. Were your long lines baited up with Mackerel? And at the surface or would you weight the lines to take them down? I'm guessing over night and you had some chem sticks at each end?

busumark · September 17, 2007, 14:23:20 CET

we have some FAD we leave the long line with them. then u start pickink up at about 5 in the morning. we had lacci for bait. between each hook there is about 50m and every 3 hooks u make float with 2 qami naylon

gabaj · September 17, 2007, 16:32:15 CET

Prosit, nice fish.

So with 200 hooks at 50m each the line is 10km long.Wow that is serious fishing.

Robert · September 17, 2007, 16:46:26 CET

nice one! well done

shanook · September 17, 2007, 19:11:58 CET

well done busu. was it still alive when u drew it in?

busumark · September 17, 2007, 20:11:08 CET

it was dead. we caught another one 12kg which still alive