Steve Singler caught a 9-pound, New Jersey state record black sea bass in 200-feet of water over the weekend.

Captain Greg Nardiello, skipper of the Sheepshead Bay-based headboat, the Ocean Eagle V, knew something was different when he set the hook into a biting blackfish this past Saturday.

Thanks to Captain Jack Sprengel of East Coast Charters out of Warwick, Rhode Island who wrote up this account of the Rhode Island State Record swordfish landed aboard the Hot Reels in Hydrographers Canyon last