The passengers sorting the catch.

With record low temps., thunder and lighting and some heavy rains ( and that was just on the dock!) Frank LoPreste and crew brought home a nice catch. Standing with 1st place is Andrew Vare from Richmond Ca. 239.0lbs. 2nd is Scott Linkletter, San Pedro, 159.0lbs. and 3rd is Mark Baur from Napa, 131.0lbs. 4th is Tommy Miles 128.0lbs.

Polaris Supreme.

From Union City is Mike On his first trip with a nice yellowfin tuna.

While it snowed in Temecula! Tommy Rothery brought back Polaris Supreme from a 10 day which included these J.P. winner's left to right are Bill Mikkelsen from Olympia, Washington 169.0lbs. John Santella from Eureka Ca. 127.0lbs. Brian Bryant from Charleston West Virginia 119.0lbs.

From Orange County Jeff Gappa with a nice yellowtail.

Captain Norm Kagawa was out on a five day where these lucky anglers caught some nice tuna. From left to right Matt Stallman from Bishop Ca. 88.0lbs tuna, Bill Sakatani from Lake Forest Ca. 87.7 lbs. Roger Nestie from San Juan Capistrano 85.1lbs.

In from a 10 day the Excel.

Wayne Snowbarger from Pasa Robles Ca. with a 259.0lbs for 1st. Pete Price from Seattle Washington 216.0lbs. for 2nd. Carl Dorton from Tarzana 208.0lbs was 3rd.

Glenn Bummer 1st place from Locker with a 205.0lbs tuna 2nd is Eugene Wong from Marina Del Ray 180.5lbs. T.J. Dave from T.J. 166.5lbs.

Ray Woolheather from Long Beach 106.1lbs got 1st place 2nd is James Boyoa from S.D. 95.0lbs 3rd place Jim Yokota 92.2lbs 4th is Steve Powell from Big Bear with a 73.0lbs Wahoo.

In from a 10 day the Royal Star.

Captain Randy Toussant and crew offloading the catch.

Dale Kurata from Cerritos with 1st 245.0lbs. Thomas Turner from L.A. snagged 2nd weight unknown, 3rd is a 213.0lbs tuna caught by Mr. Reagan from Valley Center.

Bob Ryan from Laguna Nigel gets an honorable mention here he is with a nice spread of tuna. His "best day' on the big yellowfin tuna.

From left to right is Captain Mark Pissano and Captain Jeff DeBuys 1st Keith Tedrow from Hacienda Heights 196.0lbs tuna 2nd is Tom Zahn 159.0lbs 3rd was Jim Carver from Oceanside 158.6lbs.

Chris Broyles fished with us on wednesday...the morning after he proposed to his lovely...and very tough...fiance. The water was nasty...not NASTY...but definitely not pretty. I'm not sure what his fiance was thinking on the ride out but it appeared she wasn't too happy about the sea state. After turning several shades of green i have to admit i was thinking she was going to pull the plug...lucky for Chris she didn't...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ went the rigger and Chris was firmly imbeded in a PV cow...to make a long story short 2.5 hours later a 255 pounder hit the deck.

Thursday we met Hunter and his dad John out here in punta de mita and off we went...Hunter caught 2 nice baits right away and out they went...not 5 mins later ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ went the rigger and 21 year old Hunter was about to learn the hard way what fishing for giant yellowfin tuna means.

At first we thought it was around a 100 pounder...by the end of the first hour i was pretty sure it was 200...by the end of the second hour i knew it was over 200...by the end of the 3rd hour who knew how big it was...by the end of the fourth hour i was checking the drag to make sure it was where it should be...by the end of the fifth hour i was waiting for Hunter to pass out...by the end of the sixth hour...well i just couldn't believe it was six hours...i'll let Hunter post the details but his epic battle with his 301 pound giant will go down in the history books as one of the toughest battles on stand-up i have ever seen...Hunter did not sissy this fish...he pulled as hard as anyone with over 35 pounds of drag for 6.5 hours and beat the beheamouth...300.6 pounds...what a fish.

Today it was Dad John's turn and back out we went not really expecting things could get any better...big mistake...this is PV...anything can happen.

Lines in and lots of action right away on the big baits...no solid hook-ups though but at lunchtime we got what we were looking for...

I didn't see the hit because i was watching the rigger clip vibrating frantically almost as if the big bait knew what was coming...Trev and John did see what happend...and what they saw was a giant yellowfin catapulting over 6 feet in the air and landing on our right rigger bait...

The radio lit up as 2 boats called us to ask us if we saw the fish...yes, we said...over the screaming tiagra 50w...

John was stoked...he was hooting the whole time and it's just so amazing watching someone pull on these fish and have such an awesome time doing it...

During the fight i asked Trev if he could tell how big the fish was when he saw it leap out of the water...his eyes got real wide and he just shook his head...

John pulled hard...and in 2.5 hours had the fish to color...a few minutes later the fish hit the deck and we couldn't believe it...he had got a bigger one than Hunters 301...we weren't certain...but we figured it was bigger than the 318 we caught in October...

Back at the dock and our hopes came true...we had a new season record...329.7 pounds!!!!!!!!! We have one more day tomorrow with John and Hunter and to be quite honest i'm afraid to put a bait in the water with these two...father and son 300 pounders...pretty incredible.

Captain Billy Santiago ran this 10 day trip with 32 passengers which was pretty slow as far as totals go. Captain Billy say's they fished outside most of the time chasing spots of Wahoo and Tuna then fished the beach for rockfish. Here is the 1st place winner, Jim Aljian From Santa Rosa Ca. 159.5lbs yellowfin tuna. 2nd is Guy MacDonald from Anaheim Ca. 104lbs. and 3rd the gentleman wished his name not be used but his fish weighed 92.1lbs.