Kevin Ward docked Searcher at Fisherman's Landing August 9 after a three-day trip with 28 passengers.

"They need to stock more fish out there," he joked, as he weighed the best of the catch. Tom Meck of Buckeye, AZ won the jackpot for a 26-pound albacore. He bagged the longfin with a sardine on a 3/0 Mustad hook on 25-pound P-line. He fished with a Torium 20 reel and a Shimano seven-foot rod.

Dan Carrier of Irvine won second place for a 21.4-pound yellowtail and retired fisheries biologist Steve Crooke of Irvine won third place, for a 21.2-pound yellowtail.