
The Hungry Dog is a steel shrimp boat, eighty feet long, converted into a swordfish longline boat capable of setting thirty miles of longline and gear. It was one of a fleet of eighteen shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The author Edward C...


This is my story of a swordfishing adventure to the fishing grounds of the Windward Passage. "We smoked a joint on the stern and turned in for the night. In my bunk I lay down and thought of what to expect of the next few days, watching the lights of Cocoa Beach drift...