Each winter when the northeasterly monsoons set in, swordfish go on the hunt for smaller fish in the wind-whipped waters off of Yilan. This is when the locals go out spearing for swordfish. A spearing platform juts forward from the prow of the South Wind No.
每年東北季風吹起，頂著尖刺長嘴的旗魚就會利用洶湧浪潮浮游水面追食小魚，風浪越大，魚越鮮美，正是鏢魚的好時節。