"Guadalupe was good tuna fishing for a day and a half," noted skipper Mike Ramirez of the Excel after docking the boat on a foggy Sunday morning at Fisherman's Landing October 26. "We got some nice tuna off the porpoise. And there's a lot of school fish down below. We got about three-quarter limits."

The trip was the Kashiki Open, an eight-day excursion with 34 anglers, and was noted for good weather the whole way.

One of the fish weighed 90 pounds. I missed the angler's name, but at the scales he said, "That's the first time in my life I didn't enter the jackpot," as he hauled the tuna off to his catch.

"It was the first bait, and the first tuna of the trip," said Chad Ede of Clovis, who won first place for a 75.6-pounder.

"He fought for a half-hour, after he pulled my rod right down onto the rail. He's my first tuna after three trips."

Ede got his winner with a sardine on a 4/0 ringed Super Mutu hook on 40-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon leader, a top shot of 40-pound Izorline and 60-pound Line One Spectra backing. His reel was an Avet LX, said Chad, and the rod was a Super Seeker 6470.

John Haston of Lakewood won second place for a 56-pounder, and Rogelio Tienda of Parlier got third place for a 50-pound tuna.

Gail Wade-Adams of Pleasant Hill didn't enter the jackpot, but she came up with an 84-pounder on 40-pound line. Gail posed in the winner's lineup as honorable mention.