Finning Swordfish: A lesson for Striped Bass?

[Guppy]

Originally Posted by Clammer

Just had a nice talk with gail about her fishing family ………..they started R&R at Stellwagon in the early 50,s . then her father got the swordfisg bug ,
he had a 54 ft custom built wooden hull designed & built in Maine .
the whole family , mother , father & 4 baby bears & for a while a grandfather .would leave MV before dawn & steam south & return after dark .
she said the probably averaged one a day ...no play ……………………… the boys would play out the sword in the dory & sometimes they would stick another while waiting & they would be miles apart .
she said at 1st there wasn,t as much money , but suppy & demand changed that .
she said the plane spotting & long lines really killed the fishery .
she said a 300# swords was nothing . 700;800 was average . She said they may have caught one over1000 but not sure .
we taled about all the sharks & she loved the hammerheads & that often the puplet they could see fish just laying on the surface with no fin up .they would steam over & ofter it would be a hammerhead because they did the dame thing .
she also told me the dory did get rammed & capsize .
thinking about this . over 20 years of a family .she started when she was around 2 or 3 until she was 23 they quit / spending every summer on the boat at MV .
She said the closest they got a sword was between MV & Nomans .
there is no way they didn,t lived there own book or movie …&&&&&&&&&& . no wonder when we go fishing she can hang in there longer than I can ><><

Wow