Broadbill Swordfish
The ocean's most revered gladiator, the broadbill swordfish is renowned for its aggressiveness and power. The physical form of the swordfish with it's tremendous bulk and lethal sword-like bill commands a respect far greater than given to any other fish - they are a true apex predator. Yet the Broadbill swordfish has come under a global attack from long lining fleets and numbers of big swordfish have diminished significantly.
Catching a big swordfish is considered angling's ultimate challenge, tales of anglers engaging in epic battles with these gladiators of the ocean are fading into myth. But in recent years a bunch of intrepid Kiwi crews have explored the seamounts and canyons around New Zealand's Three Kings islands and the banks beyond, what they found was swordfish - big Swordfish, and plenty of them!
What this represents is perhaps the last true angling adventure left on the planet, no longer do anglers have to read about the legendary big swordfish, they can take a trip down under to the land of the long white cloud and experience it for themselves.
Catching a big swordfish is considered angling's ultimate challenge, tales of anglers engaging in epic battles with these gladiators of the ocean are fading into myth. But in recent years a bunch of intrepid Kiwi crews have explored the seamounts and canyons around New Zealand's Three Kings islands and the banks beyond, what they found was swordfish - big Swordfish, and plenty of them!
What this represents is perhaps the last true angling adventure left on the planet, no longer do anglers have to read about the legendary big swordfish, they can take a trip down under to the land of the long white cloud and experience it for themselves.
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