http://www.fieldandstream.com/taxonomy/term/53416 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fieldandstream.com/taxonomy/term/53416 http://www.fieldandstream.com/sites/all/themes/fs/images/fsLogo_mini.gif 254 123 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2010/11/orlando-hunter-traps-florida-state-record-gator-halloween <div class="protected-image"><div style="position: absolute; width: 125px; height: 125px;"></div><img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/photo/38356/gator1_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="125" height="125" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /></div><!--paging_filter--><p>Orlando gator hunter Tres Annerman got a heck of a treat to cap off his Halloween this year. On the last day of the 2010 gator season in Florida, Annerman landed this state-record, 14&rsquo; 3 &frac12;&rdquo; alligator on Florida&rsquo;s Lake Washington. Steve Hill talked to the new state record holder and got the story on how he harpooned the beast.</p> Hunting Big Game Hunting florida gator gator hunting record alligator record florida alligator record florida gator record gator Steven Hill trapped http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2010/11/orlando-hunter-traps-florida-state-record-gator-halloween#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:39:03 -0400 Dave_Maccar 1001374225 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888413 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888413.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>This was my swordfish when it first came to the surface. What a thrill to see the beautiful electric-gray flanks of a creature that you've fought from the bottom of the ocean.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888413#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888413 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888412 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888412.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>That's me in the fighting chair watching K.J. Zeher (in blue shirt) and Nick Stanczyk, Richard's son, expertly gaff and haul aboard the 125-pound fish. All billfish are dangerous when on a boat, and Zeher and Stanczyk were careful to keep everyone away from it while it thrashed and thumped on the deck.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888412#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888412 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888411 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888411.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>You'd smile too after catching a trophy like this. From left: Zeher, Toth, Nick Stanczyk, and Scott Stanczyk, Nick's uncle and boat captain.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888411#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888411 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888410 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888410.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>Here's Richard and me back at the marina, posing with the 325th swordfish caught via Stanczyk and Gaspeny's deepwater baitfishing system. Richard's got his "war paint" on-zinc oxide to protect his face from the sun. I've got a clean shirt on. That's one other thing I learned about this fishing system: bring extra shirts. You are inevitably going to hold up a big fish for photographs, and all that slime really does a number on your clothes.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888410#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888410 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888409 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888409.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>You need a lot of line to get down to 1500 feet or more. You have to account for scope, or the angle of the line from boat to bottom, and you need line on the reel for the fish to run off after the hookset. That's why this Penn International 80 has more than a mile of line on it.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888409#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888409 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888408 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888408.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>No, it's not a homemade anchor for a johnboat. This is a swordfish sinker. To drop a bait through a quarter mile of water, the sinkers are made from concrete, and weigh 8 to 10 pounds. The system calls for breaking off the environmentally inert concrete sinker once a hook has been set on a sword.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888408#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888408 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888407 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888407.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>Stanczyk and Gaspeny perfected a deep-water baitfishing system in which they could hook and catch swordfish consistently during daylight hours-something that had been done with varying degrees of success off Venezuela and elsewhere. The two caught their first swordfish via this setup in January of 2003-and they kept on catching swords, nearly every time they went out. This fence behind Bud N' Mary's-constructed from bills of swordfish they caught--is testament to their success.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888407#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888407 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888406 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888406.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--><p>When Stanczyk bought Bud N' Mary's in 1978, he brought with him a healthy obsession with swordfish. The ocean waters off the Florida Keys teem with scores of hard-fighting gamefish-marlin, sailfish, tuna, dolphin, king mackerel-but Stanczyk loved the challenge of swords. Early this decade, Stanczyk and his fishing partner, Vic Gaspeny, set out to find a way to catch swordfish consistently. Six years and a couple hundred thousand dollars later, they succeeded.</p> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888406#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888406 at http://www.fieldandstream.com http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888405 <img src="/files/imagecache/photo-carousel/legacy/41888405.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-photo-carousel" /><!--paging_filter--> Field &amp; Stream Online Editors fishing florida islamorada mike toth richard stanczyk swordfish http://www.fieldandstream.com/node/41888405#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500 fieldandstream-editor 41888405 at http://www.fieldandstream.com