As he had done hundreds, if not thousands, of times while swordfish fishing, Capt. Brett Holden sent down a squid on a 50-wide reel and said, “I bet we get bit in less than 30 seconds.” The weight hit ...

The first time that charter captain Mark Hoos took customers on a daytime swordfish trip aboard his 58-foot custom Carolina, Marli, out of Ocean City, Maryland, in fall 2018, they hooked a 424-pounder ...

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 ...

Billfish have captivated fishermen for centuries. They’re strong, powerful, and are often viewed as the apex of angling achievements. A giant blue marlin was the focus of Ernest Hemingway’s famed The ...

The four anglers aboard the 35-foot CostaSV center console fishing boat Wound Tight left the boat dock near Biloxi, Mississippi, on Sunday at 5:45 a.m. They needed an early start to make an over ...

Ronald Stanley and Daniel Simmons display the 409-pound swordfish caught aboard Reel McCoy out of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., in July. Submitted photo Targeting swordfish well off the Carolina coast has ...

The federal government shut down California’s swordfish fleet Thursday, ordering the two dozen boats to stop stringing more than a million baited hooks across a large swath of the Pacific Ocean ...

Two weekends in a row? What will we do with ourselves? Offshore fishing will be the best game in town as there are a ton of targets available to the springtime bluewater angler. Snapper on the reefs.