In what is a tale practically right out of an Ernest Hemingway novel, three Toledo friends who winter in Florida endured an hour-and-a-half battle against a 562-pound swordfish off the state’s Atlantic coast last week.
But unlike Santiago in Hemingway’s classic “The Old Man and the Sea,” who lost his massive marlin to a pack of hungry sharks, the former construction workers brought in the magnificent fish.
There were no angry skies, nor rolling waves to add to the excitement…