Swordfish!

[rohan]

Ever caught em? Post some picture...

[Mortalkombat]

Are you talkin Broadbill?

[Chrisso]

or the ones with the big sword at the front of them that live in estuaries ???

[devocean]

I do believe they are an extremely protected species which have been depleted due to netting. Use to catch the them in the tully river a bit when I was a kid but there are not to many around anymore. Pros like to kill them because they wreck nets. Also people use to take them for their saws which is also illegal.

[banshee]

The estuary dweler is a Sawfish no relation to a Swordfish.Although my info is old('82),I think you will be hard pressed for a pic,it claims that no Swordfish has been landed by a line fisherman in Queensland waters,even if some have been caught since I would think that they are not overly common to rec anglers.They are caught however by the Jap longline fleet operating east of Sandy Cape/Cape Morton.

[HavaGo]

rohan,

Do you mean Sawfish, or Sawshark?

[jeffo]

i doubt any one has a photo of a broadie they have caught.. unless some one has worked on a longliner