THREE IN ONE DAY! Capt. Max Neue of the Pacific Voyager skiff fished with Kiyan Moeine. They landed 3 swordfish in one day and their biggest of the week weighed in at 360 pounds. PHOTO COURTESY OF CAPT. MAX NEUE
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NEWPORT BEACH – SAN DIEGO – The action has been so close to port at times that Bloody Decks Ali Hussainy turned a boat-work day into a bucket-list solo swordfish catch, coming out of Mission Bay. He posted “I had a bunch of boat work to do yesterday so I figured why not make a few drops while doing it. Worked out pretty well. A Solo Sword was something I’ve been wanting to check off the list. Check”
Capt. Max Neue, owner of the Pacific Voyager out of Seaforth Sportfishing has been skiff fishing the swords and posted “Never gonna forget this week of fishing. 6 swordfish in under a week biggest being 360 including a day we caught 3 swords. Thank you @kiyan_moein_ for the opportunity to ride along and experience this.”
Bight Sportfishing’s 2 cat 6-packs out of Fisherman’s Landing have been in the thick of the action out of San Diego for the past 4 weeks.
Newport Beach based angler DJ Yovanovic put a 311-pound broadbill on deck right out front of Newport Bay. He was fishing with Capt. Dave Ogle and mate Lamar Lee aboard the boat Sleeper.
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“I may have been the only one on the rod but we all had to fight this thing” said DJ. “It came up once, charging the boat to look at us, then went on an unstoppable run to about 300 feet. From that point on, it was a game of heavy tackle tug-o-war where we pulled out every trick in the book to trick the fish into swimming up, thanks to Dave’s great driving.”
Ogle offered,
SLEEPER SWORDFISH . Sleepers are those swordfish old-school harpooners love to find, lollygagging with a full belly in the warm waters at the surface, barely moving. But this 310 pounder caught by DJ Yovanovic on 100-pound stand-up gear aboard the boat Sleeper was no sleeper. PHOTO COURTESY OF DJ YOVANOVIC
“When Lamar finally gaffed the fish it tried to sink my boat. It was absolute chaos”
The story is the battle went on for just 45 minutes, but it took another 45 to get the pig on deck once Lamar had sunk the gaff in it. The big fish had alternately charged the boat then run back out, finally sulking at 50 fathoms, requiring heavy drag and low gear to winch it back to the surface on 100-pound stand-up tackle.
