My fishing buddy Bruce loves to catch a big Sailfish. We quite often catch these on light line such as 15 pound test line. This is the fish I don't target but I catch them all the time.
Wintertime is the best time to target this species. As with Tuna using the same techniques and live bait increases the success rate of hooking a sailfish.
These were all caught here in South Florida. This is the fish that everybody wants to have mounted on the wall. They are absolutely beautiful.
They are a commercially protected species and should be released. Since this fish is protected you want to be sure that if you keep one it is of legal size. One of the more popular ways to prepare Sailfish is to smoke it.
As you can see from the photos below they love to jump. It is really beautiful to see them sailing across the water.