Picture Gallery > Swordfish Gallery
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Kenny Spaulding in disbelief
Kenny Spaulding with one of the first daytime swordfish caught in Islamorada. He doesn't beleive it!
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Richard & Sword
Capt. Richard Stanczyk with a good ol' swordie!
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Bill Brown
Sportswriter and friend, Bill Brown, with Jimmy Coughlin and Nick Stanczyk. Big Sword!
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Big D
Islamorada's favorite Captain Big D and crew with a large sword!
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Nick & Mikey
Nick The Stick and Mikey Meatballs with a sword hanging at dusk!
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448 # Swordfish
The lunker 448 lber... 8 hours after the bite and drug for 26 miles. Finally got her in. This one broke the scale at Bud N' Mary's so they had to drive it up to the weigh station in a truck! What a surprise!
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Swordfish, get over the side!
Lift her over KJ!
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Nick & Friends
Another daytime lunker!
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Caught aboard the B n M
Another big sword laid out!
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Sword Pup
Danny Holmes and Rental Boat Jeff!
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Gaspeny and Loy
Another one, large and in charge!
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Jason Mathias
The next Guy Harvey, Jason Mathias, getting some visuals for his next masterpiece!
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Sparrow, the other prince of darkness!
Argh! Who carries a bigger sword, the fish or sparrow?
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The Boys
Nick, Colby, Taylor, and Vic
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Richard Sr. and Richard Jr.
Richard and Ricky. Ricky landed 7 broadbills by himself in one day on this day. A world record!
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When Swordfish Attack!
Brothers Rick and Nick have a sword fight back!
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Greyhounding
A nice shot of a pup swordy greyhounding!
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A sword in the sun!
Sword jumping in broad daylight!
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Father and Son
Scott with his son & mate KJ hanging a couple of beasts
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Nice Gaff Job!
Getting ready to pull another sword over!
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Hammerhead!
Just when you think it's a sword, a hammerhead comes and tries to eat your boat!
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3 Swords
Well we only caught 3 today... oh well!
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All lit up!
A pup swordie all lit up!
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It ain't always pretty!
Sometimes you have to get a little bloody...
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Gaspeny & Loy
Vic Gaspeny & Ben Loy kill another one.
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Jumper!
Look at 'em jump!
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Kevin & Ricky
Cousins Kevin Wright and Ricky Stanczyk show off a sword!
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The sun goes down
Pretty shot, the sun must be falling! Nice one Nick!
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Tofer
Nice colors on this one with Tofer!
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Don't run him over!
Gotta be careful backing down on the swords... or else this happens!
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Backcountry Swordfish!
Skip Nielsen with a swordfish.... in a skiff in the backcountry? Yes, it happened!
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Sword Splashing!
Swordfish splashing, beautiful!!!
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Dave Peck
Captain Dave Peck with another beauty!
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Sword under water
Swordie swimming around!
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Hang 'em high!
Hang 'em up!!! No rest for the weary!
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Big Ben with a lunker!
The 448 # again with angler, Ben Loy!
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Broadbill Jumping
Great picture by our friend, Ron Modra, was a cover shot!!!
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KJ, Ricky, and Jimmy
KJ, Ricky, and Jimmy with a pup... the day Ricky caught 7!
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KJ Leadering
KJ leadering a broadbill!
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Big Jumper
Huge 200+ lber jumping! Wow!!!
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Ricky with 2 sword
Ricky Stanczyk with 2 nice swordfish, caught at day but weighed at night!
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Jon Allen & Sword
Longtime employee Jon Allen and a huge swordie!
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BnM Crew
The B n' M crew haul a lunker over the transom!
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Tangled up Sword!
A sword tangled up underneath the boat!
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313 # sword!
Lunker 313 lb swordfish! B n' M Crew!
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Nick & Cody
Capt. Nick Stanczyk and Cody with a big swordfish... fish eye lense!
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Swordfish Jump
Great shot of a swordfish jumping during the day. Photo: Capt. Richard Stanczyk
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310 lber
Capt. Vic Gaspeny's 117th daytime swordfish, which tied the unofficial record of Dr. Ruben Jaen, who originally started fishing for them in the daytime in Venezuala in the early 90's.
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Record breaking 118th Daytime swordfish caught by Capt. Vic Gaspeny... -
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Happy Howard
Happy Howard Hightower... barn dogs '06!