Fredo, have a look on google at what an australian sword fish looks like....very different from these.

Gotta admit, these fish do look like a sword!

cheers,

steve

From Cairns GBR

Look a bit like a long tom only without teeth!

Cheers!

Looks kind of like whta we call hairtail over here. Pretty cool interesting fish

Do they fight very well Fredo? Are you using any special type of jigs to catch them?

you're right gully, it's a hairtail...found a translation of 'sabre argente' on a french canadian site and this description from Fishing Cairns.

Hairtail

The hairtail derives its name from their appearance, by the sudden tapering of their bodies to a thin hair like ending about 6 inches long. The rest of their long, thin, eel-like body is all shiny chrome, no scales and topped off with a sinister head full of long curved teeth.

They swim upright, shimmering along like some weird monster worm or snake like creature.

Considered a delicacy by some southern Queensland and New South Wales anglers, a whole winter fishery exists to target these fish in the Hawkesbury River (NSW) during their winter run. According to the scientists they are not suppose to be up this way but I can assure you they are and are very common captures from the deep holes in our estuary during the winter months. They prefer clean water and only appear to enter our estuary system during the slow moving tides and the better weather conditions.

Fish of over 1 metre long are quite common. They will readily take live or peeled prawn baits, as well as sardine and strip fish fillets. A simple dropper rig or running sinker rig is OK (fished on the bottom is best) while some fish have been known to hit the bait on the drop. Hook up rate is poor due to their mouth structure and large teeth, many live baits are destroyed without actually hooking up.

The fish should be bled immediately and can be gutted and just cut into pieces. The shiny "skin" removed by scraping with a hard hessian cloth or similar.

Hey Fredo, you have some interesting captures posted recently, would love to catch something as exotic as those specimens.

Your boat looks awesome. A Striper 2600 walkaround. Do you have any more photo's you could share of your boat. I haven't heard of a striper before are they a local outfit or American imports?

Pretty sure there a yankee boat. Estuary marine in mandurah are an agent for them.

Like the look of them from the back, would love to see a full side view to get an appreciation for the quality. Looks like a serious sports fishing boat to me. Might have to go and drool over one in Mandurah next time I'm down there. Thanks Andy.

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Checked them out at the last boat show, very impressive craft from the outside and looking over them.. Was actually thinking of using something like their marlin logo for fishwrecked, until I realised nearly every fishing place in the world uses one - may as well be a little different.

Here's Gribbo putting on a pose in front of one.

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If I caught one, I would take a photo of it wrapped around like a belt, until it bights my nads off.

Catching Australian fish in the Mediterranean on an American boat....

Keep the photo's coming Fredo.