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2023, Understanding Swordfish Migration Patterns and Behavior
Seth HorneSwordfish cross ocean basins between tropical spawning grounds and temperate feeding water, and they climb and dive through the column every day of their lives. Both movements run on patterns you can read, and reading them is most of being in the right water at the right time.
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2023, Choosing the Right Hooks for Swordfish Fishing
Seth HorneNot every hook is built for the depths where broadbill swordfish live. J-hooks, southern tuna style hooks, offset hooks, and circle hooks each perform differently at 1,200 to 1,800 feet. Knowing which one to run, in what size, and with what bait is the difference between consistently landing fish and consistently losing them.
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2023, Catching Swordfish: Daytime and Nighttime Tactics
Seth HorneFew offshore fish demand as much as a broadbill: the right rod and reel, a leader system that holds under a bill strike, a bait that survives the drop, and a fight that can run for hours. This is the swordfish program, built from real time on the water.
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2023, Broadbill Swordfish: Biology, Behavior, and Fishing Tactics
Seth HorneXiphias gladius is the only member of its family, and it earns the isolation. Heated retinas that work at 1,500 feet, a bill built for lateral strikes, and a migration that spans the water column every single day. Every strange thing about this fish explains something about how you catch it.
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2023, How to Catch Swordfish: Techniques, Tackle, and Tactics
Seth HorneTwo methods put swordfish in the boat: dropping baits into their daytime holding zone at 1,200 to 1,800 feet, and drifting for them after dark when they rise. This covers where they hold, what tackle reaches them, how the leader system is built, and where each method breaks down.
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2022, Swordfishing in South Florida and the Florida Keys
Seth HorneThe daytime swordfishery was born in the Gulf Stream between Miami and Key West, and it is still the most consistent on the planet. Where the grounds are, when the season peaks, what a day out there looks like, and how to think about fishing the Keys.
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2021, Deep Dropping for Daytime Swordfish
Seth HorneLead is not a spec, it is a steering wheel. Ten to twelve pounds gets you started, and the line angle tells you the rest. Structure, current, drift, and the drop sequences that put a bait on the bottom clean instead of balled up in the dark.
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2020, Fighting and Landing Big Swordfish
Seth HorneA giant swordfish settles in and uses the water column against you, and the mistakes a small fish forgives it punishes for good. How to know you are into one, survive the slack-line moment that loses fish, work it up through the thermocline, and finish it at the boat.
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