Fishing with the Matador's video: Daytime Swordfish Tournament Fishing on Reelin n Dealin BEST Swordfish Recipe Catch Clean Cook

Filmed October 2020, Captain Jake goes fishing in the Ocean's East Daytime Swordfish Fishing Tournament aboard the Reelin n Dealin with Captain Taylor Christian, and mates Zach and Seth. The crew left from Fisherman's Wharf Marina on Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach, VA early and made their way 70 miles East into the Atlantic Ocean to the Norfolk Canyon area aboard the beautiful 63' Blackwell sportfishing yacht "Reelin' N Dealin'". THERE IS A LOT OF REGGAE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS VIDEO! Captain Jake gives a brief how-to demonstration and offers some tips for catching swordfish during the day. Then, after a couple of drops, the Lindgren-Pitman reel started singing and the fight was on! Every swordfish is different. Some bite and just take off with the bait and some just nibble at it for ten minutes before they eat the bait and get hooked. Some dive deep and fight hard, some jump in the air when they get up top, some swordfish swim straight to the boat. With this fish, we had a fairly uneventful 30 minute fight. Zach stuck a daytime swordfish with the harpoon while Seth put the fish on the gaff. We made our way back to the dock at the Virginia Beach Fishing Center to weigh the fish for the tournament, but the fish was not big enough to win any prize money or place in the tournament. Congratulations to all the winners in the 2020 Ocean's East Daytime Swordfish Tournament! At the time this fish was caught, I had excellent footage of the fish in the water and the harpoon shot. Somehow my camera deleted or wrote over that file, so I apologize for losing that footage. Something very interesting about this fish is that when we caught this swordfish, the fish had a freshly broke off rig from another fisherman still stuck in its mouth. Zach took a photo of the rig and using social media, he was able to track down the rig as being lost just days earlier in the same area by a commercial fisherman. Captain Jake shows how to clean a swordfish, preserve a swordfish bill, and then shows how to cook his favorite swordfish recipe- a variation of a dish served at the Causeway Restaurant in Gloucester, Massachusetts. **SIDE NOTE** The mate on the Reelin' n Dealin', Zach, also works at @Oceans East Bait & Tackle Shop and Zach is the Swordfish Tournament Director. Zach is an avid daytime swordfisherman and he wanted to grow Virginia Beach's daytime swordfishery, so Zach created the Ocean's East Swordfish Tournament. He put this tournament together for the first time in 2019, so the 2020 tournament was the second year of the tournament. The tournament is a month long tournament in October and each boat can enter to fish up to three different days in that month, and weigh one swordfish each day. The tournament pays out the top 3 biggest swordfish with calcuttas for first swordfish over 200 pounds, biggest tuna, and biggest fish caught hand-cranking. The format of the tournament is great and really fun and in just two years Zach has grown the Oceans East swordfish tournament into a nearly $100,000 tournament with over 30 entries, a ton of great sponsors, and a really nice banquet after the tournament. Next year, the tournament should be even bigger and better but a big THANK YOU to Zach for all the hard work he does with putting this tournament together. For more information about fishing with @Fishing with the Matador go to https://www.MatadorCharters.com Thanks for watching and subscribing to @Fishing with the Matador channel! Easy Jam by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100245 Artist: http://incompetech.com/