Picture Gallery

Kenny Spaulding in disbelief

Kenny Spaulding with one of the first daytime swordfish caught in Islamorada. He doesn't beleive it!

Richard & Sword

Capt. Richard Stanczyk with a good ol' swordie!

Bill Brown

Sportswriter and friend, Bill Brown, with Jimmy Coughlin and Nick Stanczyk. Big Sword!

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Big D

Islamorada's favorite Captain Big D and crew with a large sword!

Nick & Mikey

Nick The Stick and Mikey Meatballs with a sword hanging at dusk!

448 # Swordfish

The lunker 448 lber... 8 hours after the bite and drug for 26 miles. Finally got her in. This one broke the scale at Bud N' Mary's so they had to drive it up to the weigh station in a truck! What a surprise!

Swordfish, get over the side!

Lift her over KJ!

Nick & Friends

Another daytime lunker!

Caught aboard the B n M

Another big sword laid out!

Sword Pup

Danny Holmes and Rental Boat Jeff!

Gaspeny and Loy

Another one, large and in charge!

Jason Mathias

The next Guy Harvey, Jason Mathias, getting some visuals for his next masterpiece!

Sparrow, the other prince of darkness!

Argh! Who carries a bigger sword, the fish or sparrow?

The Boys

Nick, Colby, Taylor, and Vic

Richard Sr. and Richard Jr.

Richard and Ricky. Ricky landed 7 broadbills by himself in one day on this day. A world record!

When Swordfish Attack!

Brothers Rick and Nick have a sword fight back!

Greyhounding

A nice shot of a pup swordy greyhounding!

A sword in the sun!

Sword jumping in broad daylight!

Father and Son

Scott with his son & mate KJ hanging a couple of beasts

Nice Gaff Job!

Getting ready to pull another sword over!

Hammerhead!

Just when you think it's a sword, a hammerhead comes and tries to eat your boat!

3 Swords

Well we only caught 3 today... oh well!

All lit up!

A pup swordie all lit up!

It ain't always pretty!

Sometimes you have to get a little bloody...

Gaspeny & Loy

Vic Gaspeny & Ben Loy kill another one.

Jumper!

Look at 'em jump!

Kevin & Ricky

Cousins Kevin Wright and Ricky Stanczyk show off a sword!

The sun goes down

Pretty shot, the sun must be falling! Nice one Nick!

Tofer

Nice colors on this one with Tofer!

Don't run him over!

Gotta be careful backing down on the swords... or else this happens!

Backcountry Swordfish!

Skip Nielsen with a swordfish.... in a skiff in the backcountry? Yes, it happened!

Sword Splashing!

Swordfish splashing, beautiful!!!

Dave Peck

Captain Dave Peck with another beauty!

Sword under water

Swordie swimming around!

Hang 'em high!

Hang 'em up!!! No rest for the weary!

Big Ben with a lunker!

The 448 # again with angler, Ben Loy!

Broadbill Jumping

Great picture by our friend, Ron Modra, was a cover shot!!!

KJ, Ricky, and Jimmy

KJ, Ricky, and Jimmy with a pup... the day Ricky caught 7!

KJ Leadering

KJ leadering a broadbill!

Big Jumper

Huge 200+ lber jumping! Wow!!!

Ricky with 2 sword

Ricky Stanczyk with 2 nice swordfish, caught at day but weighed at night!

Jon Allen & Sword

Longtime employee Jon Allen and a huge swordie!

Tangled up Sword!

A sword tangled up underneath the boat!

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313 # sword!

Lunker 313 lb swordfish! B n' M Crew!

Nick & Cody

Capt. Nick Stanczyk and Cody with a big swordfish... fish eye lense!

Swordfish Jump

Great shot of a swordfish jumping during the day. Photo: Capt. Richard Stanczyk

310 lber

Capt. Vic Gaspeny's 117th daytime swordfish, which tied the unofficial record of Dr. Ruben Jaen, who originally started fishing for them in the daytime in Venezuala in the early 90's.

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Record breaking 118th Daytime swordfish caught by Capt. Vic Gaspeny...

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Happy Howard

Happy Howard Hightower... barn dogs '06!

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Croft Upchurch and his 1st swordfish... Congrats...