PS- Successful swordfishing, at least in coastal FL waters, is a mostly nocturnal exercise. Water depth is a big consideration and part of that game.
That used to be the case (night fishing for swords). Not anymore. Daytime sword fishing is the game these days for most people. Check the guy's page below. He's something of a pioneer of the daytime sword fishery. A member here knows Nick Stanczyk well, as I understand it.
https://www.youtube.com/c/StanzFam/videos The guy we hired is a professional and very successful sword killer. He's taken more than 40 swords over 250 lbs. over the last year alone and many smaller fish. We just struck out the one day we were able to fish for them.
And yes on depth. We were fishing Floyd's Wall deep slow trolling in 1500-1800 feet of water. Roughly 30 NM SE of Islamorada.
South End:
24 27.617
80 25.173
North End
24 40.598
80 13.565
