The 622-pound broadbill swordfish landed by a 19-year-old girl in a five-hour battle off Tasmania was just confirmed as a record by the Game Fishing Association of Australia. Eboney Westwood was ...

Florida fisherwomen can reel in the big ones just like their male counterparts. And they’re taking to social media to prove it. Several female South Florida anglers share their catches of the day on ...

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 ...

The six-man crew aboard the Trade Desk, a 60-foot Hatteras, left Alabama’s Orange Beach Marina around mid-morning on Aug. 14. They ran straight offshore into the Gulf’s blue waters and started ...

Jon Pilcher had a vision: If they catch swordfish on the bottom in 1,500 feet of water off Florida during the day, we should be able to do the same in the Northeast Canyons. An emergency-room doctor ...

For many years along the northern Gulf of Mexico fishing for swordfish was mainly something anglers did at night, usually while passing time before morning to start trolling for other offshore ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Between 1960 and 1996 swordfish declined more than 65%, the average size of fish caught shrank, and the species became severely overfished in the ...