Swordin 101!

[SeaBiscuit]

I'm headin' to Fla to go sworfishin'. I believe Paul has schooled me enough to give it an honest shot!
Thank you Paul, this was a great tutorial.
I probably know your answer to this, but will ask anyhow. Many folks feel that hollow core spectra is the future of fishing, especially in applications where a lot of line is off the reel. I understand you feel it is not safe, but safety issues aside, do you see a benefit to using it for swordfishing?
Opinion on circle hooks for swords?
Thank you,
Nick

[WAHOONBOX]

DEEP ....I THINK MOST WANNABE ANGLERS ARE WATCHING THE STUPID BASKETBALL GAME...........SO THERE MAY BE VERY LTTLE INVOLVEMENT HERE TONIGHT..... I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THE EXCITEMENT IS ABOUT 10 GUYS RUNNING BACK AND FORTH ONE WITH A PONEYTAIL....AND THE OTHER NINE CELEBRATING EVERY DRIBBLE......FACT-O-DA-MATTER: I COULDN'T NAME ONE PLAYER ON ANY COLLEGIATE OR PRO TEAM....FOOTBALL....BASEBALL...OR B-BALL

ON ANOTHER NOTE.....YOU ARE GONNA LOVE FISHING WITH DA "BISCUIT"...........SUCH PASSION...SUCH ZEAL...........SUCH AN INVENTOR OF NEW WORDS

[sea scape]

wow!!! Dr DEEP... absolutly a fantastic post.. makes me want to go fishing with ya..

[Deep C]

Nick the one advantage you might have with hollowcore on these fish is on the strike and driving the hook home as it has less stretch. With a circle I think that would be defeating the puropse if used with the hollowcore. With mono I suppose that circles would work ok but as it is almost every sword we see is hooked in the mouth i see no real advantage. On occcasion we will get one foul hooked which swings the advantage to the J-hook. We just seem to never get gut or deep hooked fish.
I know when I first did the sword thing when it first became popular in the late 70's I did use circles on occasion with about the same percentage of hook ups... So its a can do thing but no real advantage one way or another.

Now I may consider doing smaller top baits at some point on say 30lb gear. and I may try circle there...

[Deep C]

Box I'm not sweatin it... Doing a bunch of projects at once here any way...


SG
I promise I will let you play with my squid any time you want.

[Stripersniper]

Deep thanks for all that info. I had to make a DEEP C file on my computer.

[SeaBiscuit]

Paul,
sorry to get your attention on this fine thread, but when you have a chance can you weigh in on this;
http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/...6&postcount=33
Thanks a million,
Nick

[Capt. Brian Daley]

Nice post deep thats pretty much the way I set up also

[sea scape]

Box I'm not sweatin it... Doing a bunch of projects at once here any way...


SG
I promise I will let you play with my squid any time you want.

will you teach me your squid tricks in person?? I need to learn how to rig one up.
I am more of a hands on learner .. not much of a text book person.

[JD5652]

Deep-

Great words of wisdom there sir. I'm just learing about swording here north of the DMZ and I believe that some of your tactics would apply up here as well. Thanks for all the time and effort to put this together.