Texas Fish & Game

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September 13, 2023

Samples Needed For Blue Marlin/Swordfish Project

Scientists at the University of Maine need Atlantic blue marlin that weigh over 800 lbs and Atlantic swordfish over 500 lbs, specifically their heads, and the fork length measurement.  They are hoping to conduct an age and growth […]
September 6, 2023

Everything You Need to Know about Swordfish Baits

It’s amazing the lengths anglers will go to when they’re prepping up offshore baits. Ballyhoo get rigged and salted. Ribbonfish get love, care, and a chandelier of treble hooks. Eels get scrubbed with steel wool until […]
July 12, 2022

Baits for Daytime Swordfish

Daytime swordfishing is incredibly challenging, and can be incredibly rewarding. It requires hours of preparation, uber-long runs, great care in setting out the gear, and potentially hours of fighting a fish up from extreme depths. But […]
December 30, 2020

Bill Would Save Swordfish

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act (S. 906) to phase out large-scale driftnet fishing in federal waters off California. Authored in the Senate by Sens. Dianne Feinstein […]
March 12, 2020

Fishing for Swordfish in Broad Daylight

Few anglers ever get to go after swordfish, even in they have a boat capable of making those long runs far out into the ocean where these billfish live. Why? Because historically most have been caught […]
November 26, 2019

Sword Fight!

You may have to run 75 or more miles out into the Gulf, employ special rigging and techniques, and spend all day staring at a solitary rod tip, but if you can win a battle with […]
July 29, 2016

Rod and Reel record for swordfish broken

Emil J. Krejci Jr., 54, set a new state saltwater record with his 412-pound, 97-inch swordfish caught June 29 while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Krejci. Before, the unrestricted record catch was 374.80 pounds and […]