{"id":208010,"date":"2026-03-27T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208010\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:24:23","slug":"florida-boat-captain-catches-nearly-500-pound-swordfish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208010\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida boat captain catches nearly 500-pound swordfish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat? 12312344, watch out, he’s gonna. Oh my God.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Boat captain, vacationing family reel in nearly 500-pound swordfish in the Florida Keys<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 2:26 PM EDT Mar 26, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA nearly 500-pound swordfish was pulled from the waters of the Florida Keys during a charter boat trip.Captain Jose Rodriguez works as a charter fishing captain in the Florida Keys.Rodriguez recently brought a Pennsylvania family out on the water, as they were celebrating their son’s upcoming high school graduation.While on the boat, Rodriguez and the family caught a 480-pound swordfish. It took them more than five hours to reel in the almost quarter-ton fish from the water.Despite the grueling process, the experience gave Rodriguez and the family a trip they’ll never forget.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A nearly 500-pound swordfish was pulled from the waters of the Florida Keys during a charter boat trip.<\/p>\n

Captain Jose Rodriguez works as a charter fishing captain in the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez recently brought a Pennsylvania family out on the water, as they were celebrating their son’s upcoming high school graduation.<\/p>\n

While on the boat, Rodriguez and the family caught a 480-pound swordfish. It took them more than five hours to reel in the almost quarter-ton fish from the water.<\/p>\n

Despite the grueling process, the experience gave Rodriguez and the family a trip they’ll never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What? 12312344, watch out, he’s gonna. Oh my God. Boat captain, vacationing family reel in nearly 500-pound swordfish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1185,95319,95318,52800,104,11851,94378,28,94379,30,2472,29,1179,213,26708,94380,95320,51350,95321,48600,1960,197,94377,94381,4103,221],"class_list":["post-208010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alert","tag-captain-jose-rodriguez","tag-charter-boat-trip","tag-charter-fishing-captain","tag-entertainment","tag-experience","tag-family-reel","tag-florida","tag-florida-boat-captain","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys","tag-florida-news","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-late-news","tag-ldnd","tag-midwestern-family","tag-pennsylvania-family","tag-process","tag-quarter-ton-fish","tag-rodriguez","tag-son","tag-sport","tag-swordfish","tag-upcoming-high-school-graduation","tag-water","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}