Hot stick!

Whew!

Big boy!

Goodbye Isla Guadalupe. Looks like the weather is going to be rough tomorrow. We are now heading towards the albacore grounds to finish up the trip. Awesome. We got 4 fishing days during a five day trip.

We had an awesome trip. Thanks to Shawn and Justin and of course the entire Excel crew including Kathy and Betty.

Fish Count: 30 Anglers caught 307 Albacore (up to 45 pounds), 135 Yellowfin Tuna (up to 76 pounds), 27 Yellowtail, and 12 Dorado (up to 26 pounds).

Congratulations to our jackpot winners!
Ken Bell (Port Hueneme, CA) 76.3# Yellowfin Tuna
Norm Ong (Los Angeles, CA) 75.4# Yellowfin Tuna
Randy Podolsky (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) 71# Yellowfin Tuna

We started the morning right next to the New Lo-an. We did manage to catch a few Yellowfin Tuna. The fish were between 8 and 10 pounds.

We got fish of off almost every kelp.

Roland caught some Yellowfin Tuna.

SFR Fish Count Guy, Jesse Johnson, caught his first ever Yellowfin Tuna on the Iron.

Here he is bouncing his fish like a "Pro."

Jesse with another Yellowfin Tuna.

We found a kelp holding a ton of fish. The end result was we finished up our limits early.

We filled the box a few times.

The Red Roster returned from a 4 day trip on September 15, 2004 with some nice fish.

The Jackpot winners were:
Dennis Davis (Bellflower, CA) 122.7# Yellowfin Tuna
Bill Swiff (Downey, CA) 71.8# Yellowfin Tuna
Wes Scott (Moorpark, CA) 66.7# Yellowfin Tuna

The Red Rooster III had a great report.

Fish Count: 25 anglers caught 375 Yellowtail and 12 Yellwofin Tuna (up to 122.7 pounds). They fished at Guadalupe Island.

Dan Luke from Louisianna caught this fine 102.0 lbs. yellowfin tuna.

This 11 day adventure skippered by Frank LoPreste fished down the mexican coast for yellowfin tuna, wahoo, dorado, and some yellowtail also in the mix were some 70.0 lbs. grouper. Here is the jackpot winners from left to right name unkown 130.0 lbs tuna Bruce Wier from sunnyvale with a 109.0 lbs. tuna and Dan Luke from Louisianna with a 102.0 lbs. yellowfin tuna.

Robert Zane from Palos Verdes caught this cow tuna on the kite but did not qualify for jackpot because there was not a full rotation of passengers on the kite.

from Riverside Miles landed this tuna on the kite.

Sam also got lucky on the kite. It took him one hour to land on 80lbs. test

Here is another Excel angler who I frankly forgot to get the name of standing with Capt. Shawn Steward with a nice 193.0 lbs yellowfin tuna