Right after I got back from Lotusphere, Explora went out fishing with his buddies for a few days.  While they usually stay within a handful of miles of Anguilla and are only gone for most of a day, this was a multi-day, long line fishing trip, over the eastern Atlantic shelf, about 50 miles/80km off shore.  Long line fishing, by the way, consists of several 21 mile/34km long fishing lines that contain about 2500 hooks and a concrete block at the end, as the goal is to get the type of fish that live in really deep waters, meaning deeper than the 3000ft (915m) the boat's depth finder could detect.

This trip was done at the request of the Cote Mer restaurant which was looking to serve swordfish and mahi. 
So here is how you too can manage to catch some amazing fish, including a 450lb swordfish:

1. wait until full moon
   
   
2. become an experienced fisherman so you know where to...
   
   
3. roll out/drop the 21mile lines, which takes about  6hrs to spread out properly
   
   
4. go to sleep for a few hours, and then turn around and...
   
   
5. pick the 19miles line back up and collect the fish off it, which takes about 6 hours, unless your line breaks, in which case it will take you 12 hours (and make your family freak out thinking you're dead). 
   The reason there was only 19 miles of line left, was because something, (we shall call "shark" here) bit through the half inch line and also took a chunk out of the swordfish below.
   

         
      6. turn around and sell the > 2'000 pounds/1000kg of fish to local restaurants for about $17'000



The guys caught 6 mahi, 14 swordfish, 4 tuna and one wahoo and even got a mention in the local news paper:
"the Webster family brought in about 2,000 pounds of Sword Fish last wek further indemnifying and assuring visiting diners and fish eating connoisseurs of our fresh sea food bounty and restaurant claim."



That is a 6' 2'' guy above, by the way, next to the 13ft / 4m swordfish, just to give some perspective to the size of that thing.  They had to saw the sword off the fish AND saw it in half, just to get it in the 8ft coolers aboard the ship.

Anyone up for dinner at my house?  Guess what we're having!