A hooked sailfish goes airborne. Sailfish and swordfish are two of the top dogs of the big-game fishing world. These are some of the fastest, biggest, and hardest-fighting saltwater species that can ...

I first saw the swordfish at 7:50 a.m. about 12 miles off the coast. He was 50 yards away, swimming kind of erratically and slowly. He was so big that I was a little afraid of him at first. I figured ...

The first time that charter captain Mark Hoos took customers on a daytime swordfish trip aboard his 58-foot custom Carolina, Marli, out of Ocean City, Maryland, in fall 2018, they hooked a 424-pounder ...

When Capt. Charlie Kinman ran his 38-foot Luhr’s fishing boat through Jupiter Inlet in Southeast Florida on March 25, the weather was a little iffy. He and mates Alex Leonhardt and George Maib were ...

Permits are being issued to commercial swordfish fishermen who forgo large drift nets for a new system that won’t also capture whales and dolphins. The National Marine Fisheries Service recently ...

Billfish have captivated fishermen for centuries. They’re strong, powerful, and are often viewed as the apex of angling achievements. A giant blue marlin was the focus of Ernest Hemingway’s famed The ...

Eighteen-year-old Colby Blackwell from Birmingham, Alabama, was determined to make his dream come true: successfully catch a swordfish from his kayak. After releasing a blue marlin from his ‘yak in ...

Two weekends in a row? What will we do with ourselves? Offshore fishing will be the best game in town as there are a ton of targets available to the springtime bluewater angler. Snapper on the reefs.