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Title: swordfish
Post by: busumark on September 17, 2007, 13:33:42 CET
24kg swordfish caught today with 200 hook long-line

(http://maltafishingforum.com/talk/gallery/98_16_02_08_8_03_12.jpg)
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: kempy on September 17, 2007, 13:40:32 CET
very nice indeed bet your well happy with that 1
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: givella on 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?
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: busumark on September 17, 2007, 13:46:10 CET
about 7 miles from land
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: skip on 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?
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: busumark on 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
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: gabaj on 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.
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: Robert on September 17, 2007, 16:46:26 CET
nice one! well done
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: shanook on September 17, 2007, 19:11:58 CET
well done busu. was it still alive when u drew it in?
Title: Re: swordfish
Post by: busumark on September 17, 2007, 20:11:08 CET
it was dead. we caught another one 12kg which still alive