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Get Out Your Panama Strip Baits and Disco Strobe Lights: Throwing a Swordfish Party a Quarter-mile Down

Offshore
Carey Akin
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Fishing for swordfish during the day requires "deep dropping," fishing as much as 1600 feet down. And one thing to keep in mind? "Swordfish are curious," says Andy Nabreski. That's why the disco strobe lights along the leader.

This week on The Fishing News, Nabreski, of On The Water magazine, tells us about targeting swordfish at The Canyons, a hundred miles offshore. And we talk about the inshore action, too: as slow as it's been, you may want to try reaching for those disco lights...

It's all in 4 minutes. Give it a listen.

Steve is Managing Editor of News. He came to WCAI in 2007. He also hosts the weekly News Roundup on Friday mornings and produces The Fishing News.