"We had some chop," said Kyle "Rooster" Karcher, Independence skipper for a five-day trip that returned September 8, "but the yellowtail fishing on the beach at San Pablo was great. There's some yellowtail showing offshore north of there. Guadalupe is up and down but there's decent sign of tuna there. It's good fishing right now."

Karcher docked the boat at Pt. Loma Sportfishing and offloaded his 23 anglers and their fish.

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