The Sav-On Tackle five-day trip with 31 anglers was skippered by Jeff DeBuys, and returned to Pt. Loma Sportfishing September 3. Sav-On owner Bob Salamon was aboard and said he'd had some good fishing.

Skipper DeBuys said he spent two days at Guadalupe Island, a day fishing yellowtail at an island, and also fished offshore on the way back, where he said he found some good yellowfin tuna.

Perry Gillotti of El Segundo won first place for a 95-pound tuna. He used a sardine bait, a 3/0 Super Mutu hook, 40-pound Izorline XXX, a Penn 555 reel and an eight-foot graphite rod.

"He's my best fish ever," said Perry. "He was boiling around way outside, so I grabbed the long rod to help me get a bait out farther. I paid the price for that. He took me around the boat twice and beat me up for an hour and a half."

Tom Thompson of Los Alamitos won second place for an 84.6-pound tuna he fished up with a sardine on a ringed Gorilla hook and 45-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon.

"He bit way out there," said Tom, "and then he took a couple hundred more yards. My drags started chirping, and I had to use my thumb. He fought me for an hour and a half."

Sean Dowsing of San Diego won third place. He's 19, and an econ student at UC Irvine. Sean's tuna weighed 81 pounds, and came on a sardine and 50-pound line.