I hesitated putting this in my website as Keys Magic did not catch it -but it is a tremendous catch worthy of recognition. I wish this was mine but sadly it is not.

Rusty Bonnert who is my neighbor down the canal and a serious, hard core fisherman took this large sword in 3.5 hours using a manual reel. He was on the boat only with his petite wife Sara. Luckily, he had a fighting chair.

With the fish at the boat, Rusty let Sara take the rod and he took wraps on the leader. Just as he did so, the snap swivel pulled open. With his other hand he threw the harpoon and the fish was a done deal.

Now they had to figure out how to get it inside of the boat. With much effort they succeeded and headed to the barn getting back late after dark.
The bait was an un-dyed large squid. The fish was bill wrapped with the leader and the hook was under its pectoral fin.