It's official. The record swordfish caught off the Alabama Gulf Coast is officially a record. Del Sawyer's 448-pound swordfish surpasses the previous record swordfish by nearly 100 pounds. The previous record had been only 1 year old.
The trophy swordfish was caught 100 miles due south of Mobile and about 50 miles west of the edge of the DeSoto Canyon. The DeSoto Canyou is a geologic formation which forms the continental shelf for Mississippi, Alabama and West Florida.
A lot of people don't know that we have swordfish here in the gulf. It used to be that nobody went fishing for them. People don't realize it, but you could catch a swordfish every single night, year round.
Alabama catch continues Gulf swordfish trend