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Thanks! We're quite lucky here in Tassie that the shelf edge where we fish is as close as 27kms (16-17 miles) from our local ramp.

Cheers. Conditions like this make this style of fishing easy. If it's above 12-15knots we'll reconsider going depending on the swell as it makes it too hard to stay in contact with the bait and can make a hard days work, especially for the captain on the wheel.

The adrenaline and heart rate still spike when when we hook up! I'm most comfortable settled into the fight when we're directly over the top of it fighting it up and down. A surface fish makes me nervous. I've angled a few of these now and although some still throw surprises at you, I know what I'm in for. I focus on feeling the fish, letting it do it's thing and respond to it. I'm also a firm believer in if I treat the fish nicely it will do the same to me haha.

I think the fact it's stomach was out the way it was didnt help.

@@itswizza good you kept that one to eat and not try release. Brody was closest on the weight…did you have to clean the fish!?

@@adammcgeorge3538 yeah, it would not have swam even if we tried. It was the one we wanted to keep and that's what we were gifted. To only have 1 from 11 that didn't swim off is an awesome result for the season. We removed the head, tail and gutted it and put it in ice filled insulated bag and processed it the following morning. We vacuum seal all our seafood to keep it at its best quality frozen. 100% the only way we will freeze any seafood.

@@itswizza definitely a good result all around!

Only Safe to eat a couple of times a year. Full of mercury.

It is the season that keeps on giving!

Cheers. It's a custom rod I won in the Australian International Billfish Tournament in April. Check out Florless Rods on Facebook. This one is 37kg with a tip extension and Winthrop roller. I love it! Sensitive to detect bites yet strong, springy and has good lifting power. I'm 165cm/55kg and its perfect for me. The maker came down here and fished the comp/trialled a few. Hes since made a few of the Tassie boys 37-60kg rods and dialled them back to 5'6".

His work is high quality 👌 facebook.com/share/uuL3bS2fVJhyEPoM/?mibextid=qi2Omg

Could you go through your rig and bait rigging sometime just as you use it. Curious on some of the details.

Hard tag on that one coming in belly up, definitely tag resistent!

@adammcgeorge3538 th-cam.com/video/iGhEcWnhp2I/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared here's an example of how I rig my baits.

Thank you! It was insane, absolutely crazy!! The hardest, most physical, exciting, emotional, and best day of fishing ever! Haha

Yes there is an open/closed season. fishing.tas.gov.au/recreational-fishing/fishing-by-species/scallop-fishing

It's been an insane season. They dont usually come this "easy". As of this weekend, we've done 11 swords from 11 trips now. 10 swam away (8 of tagged). As the season getting on, we boated our most recent one, a 138kg model. A nice manageable size for 2 to get in the boat.

Every "small fish" (under 100kg) has been lassoed. It didn't matter if I used a small bait or a big one. Some lucky catches!

This was a once in a lifetime kind of day. My expectations of a good day swordfishing are now ruined forever 🤣

Thanks! 2 up is hard at times. Communication is key!

Definitely. We are also only ever 2...

🤗 Thanks Kimmy! It was a wild, wild day!!!

Part two, the best part - up now! 😁

@itswizza I'll watch it on the big screen when i get home

Stay tuned for part 2. It's even more awesome!!! 😁

Thank you 😊 It was amazing to be a part of and all the stars aligned for us. Stay tunned for part two this week - it's even better! 😁

Seamaster Stainless Steel 18/0 Circle Hook (offset) from Seamaster Fishing Supplies. The product code for them is FSH0018. I've been using them consistently for 5-6 years 👍

Thank you. Keep up with awesome videos 👍🏻👍🏻

@@victorfranchini9931 there will be several swordfish ones coming 👍

Tuna are our "by-catch". We are targeting swords, but late into the drift, if it comes up too high in the water column, this is where/when we tend to hook the Tuna.

Cheers! It was a good tussle and we love to see the big ones swim away 👌

@itswizza now I'm obsessed with your sword vids. It on my buckets list especially if i can get one from our local waters here off sydney.

@chilliburn1 We are currently fishing the AIBT in our home state, Tasmania. The fishing has been CRAZY in the northern grids (were only fishing in the south by choice, and well the weather has been rubbish down here offshore but in all honesty we are pretty stoked with our season to date with 2 recent tag & releases). You can follow the comp along and check out the action here: facebook.com/AIBT2024?mibextid=ZbWKwL

@@itswizza o thanks heaps. You guys should do a sword tutorial. You guys deserve a tone of followers. Great stuff

@chilliburn1 Thanks so much 😊 We live a good life, love what we do, appreciate the fishery we have so close to home and enjoy sharing our adventures with others 🎣🤿

Thank you 👍