Fairwinds

by bleeding them do you mean, in the same manner you would bleed a tuna by making that incision under the gill plate?

brnbser

no personal experience on swords....yet, but I do pretty much all gaffing/wiring on our team and regarding gaffing,

king anglers like to hit them in the tail because as you said Woody, minimizes blood loss but that's not the only reason. we use pretty lightline/leaders/wire on them and want the gaff away from the head and that light stuff. that's one of the reason we use those 10-12' gaffs also, that and their tendancy to make a run when they get close to the boat. Blood loss in a king tourneys can be the difference between win/lose. So much so that pretty much most tournament guys immediately fill the gaff hole with a tampon before icing it.

It's only a king thing, anything large, I go for the shoulder and wahoo, I go for the eye, I want the blood:shedevil.

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Captain Woody Woods

good god scott that's some obsessive fishing right there.

brnbser

you should have seen Katelyn's face the first tournament I took her on and I'm in the store asking her what isle the tampons are on........I never leave for a tournament without them

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Radiater

You get some pretty funny looks when 4 guys go into the store to stock up on groceries for the weekendand youhave a box of tampons in the cart. I had to be shown how to operateit the first time I tried putting one in a fish.

flyliner

back to the cleaning of a sword ......

The only thing I do different while cleaning a sword compared to most other large fish is the way to skin them. The roundness of the filet makes it hard to skin it lengthwiseso I cut them in 8 inch steaks leaving the skin on and then skin the steak from the bloodline out, kind of like taking the meat off a cantaloupe wedge. You get rid of the bloodline and skin in same cut

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