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

From left to right the winners are as follows: the father and son team down from Oxnard, Greg Mendonca and Steve Mendonca with 224.9 lbs. and 222.0 lbs. yellowfin tunas. As well as Art Scott, from Topoc, Arizona with a 202.0 lbs. tuna. Captain Shawn Steward took 32 passengers down outside of Cabo on a 10 day. On this trip they caught 6 fish over 200 lbs. and plenty of smaller tuna, wahoo, and dorado.

In this photo from left to right is Captain Dave Kiyohara, 1st place Bill Rensberger from Point Loma with a 231.5 lbs. tuna, Captain Sam Patella with a toad of a tuna, 2nd Rob Whitney from Medesto with a 229.5 lbs. and 3rd Jeff Burroughs from Phoenix with 126.5 lbs. the American Angler went down the coast of mexico for 11 days with 20 passengers. Final count 275 yellowfin tuna 160 yellowtail and 27 wahoo.

Rudy Morfin from Carson caught a nice yellowfin tuna.

From Haley, Idaho Henry Brown captured 1st place with 100.1 lbs tuna 2nd place goes to Ted Turnowsky from Hacienda Heights who caught a 85.5 tuna and 3rd place goes to Greg Henry from Costa Mesa with a 65.0 lbs. tuna

From left to right the 1st place goes to Kay Yoshino from Orange with a 206.0 lbs. tuna and standing with the featured 181.5 lbs. tuna is a gentleman whos name is unknown with 2nd place. And 3rd was 85.5 lbs also name unknown. Tim Ekstrom was the captain of this 10 day trip.

Jackpot Winners from left to right Brent Taylor from Riverside 92.8 lbs. tuna, Pete Demers from L.A. with a 92.5 lbs., and Dick Shaffer with a 92.4 lbs. yellowfin tuna. Capt. Mark Pisano took 27 passengers down the coast of Mexico for a 10 day adventure in where they fished for tuna, wahoo, dorado and yellowtail.

Jack Bair from Huntington Beach with his 1st place yellowfin tuna that weighed 140.7 lbs. and Dave Grimes from Encinitas with a 130.7 lbs that took 2nd in this 60/40 jackpot. Captain Mike Lackey took 25 Passengers on this 5 day to Guadalupe Island for fair tuna fishing and San Martin Island for outstanding Yellowtail fishing.

David Choate from Torrance on the last stop of the trip hauled in this 193.0 lbs. beauty of a yellowfin tuna, standing with david is Captain Bruce Smith.

1st place is David Choate from Torrance with 193.0 lbs. tuna, 2nd is Rob Gerner from Hinkley Ca. with a 118.0 lbs. tuna and Michael Grant is 3rd with a 98.4 tuna. Also Brad Baron won the Rollo Heyn Foundation Jackpot for biggest yellowtail that weighed 21.8 lbs. Bruce Smith Captain of the Shogun took 24 passengers down to mexican waters for a 10 day. Final count is 168 yellowfin tuna, 76 dorado, 50 yellowtail, 3 wahoo, 1 grouper.

Dennis from Dickson Ca. got into some of the "smaller" yellowfin tuna as shown here.

From Mountain View Ca. here is Mikewith a fun size tuna.

Chris Hall from Medesto Ca. standing with his yellowfin tuna.

Captain Brian Sims ran this 10 day trip and got these lucky anglers into some monster tuna.1st is Chris Hall from Medesto caught a 267.0 lbs., 2nd is Shane Stotka from Oceanside with a 241.0 lbs., 3rd is Dave Fisher from Coopertown Ca. 167.0 lbs. the trip also got some wahoo,dorado, and yellowtail.