Monday, September 26, 2011

ISLAMORADA, Florida Keys: Navy pilot back from Iraq lands 455-pound swordfish in Keys. White said he came down to the Keys for a month's vacation to mark the end of his nine-year military career.

ISLAMORADA, Florida Keys -- A former Navy helicopter pilot, who retired from military service three weeks ago after flying surveillance missions over Iraq for a year, reeled in a 455-pound swordfish during a weekend fishing excursion off the Florida Keys.

John White, 33, of Rochester, N.Y., fished Saturday, Sept. 24, with Captain Nick Stanczyk and mate Matt Davis on the Bn'M, based out of Bud N' Mary's Marina in Islamorada.

"I was thinking how tired I was after three hours," said White. "I wanted to give up, but my wife (Pamela Marie) kept pushing me to go on."

After the fish hit at 1:30 p.m., it took five hours to get it to the boat via a Key Largo Rods' swordfish stick, rigged with a Shimano wide reel spooled with 80-pound test braided line. The big fish bit a dolphin (mahi-mahi) belly fished almost to the bottom in 1,600 feet of water, some 30 miles to the south of Islamorada.

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