Hello everyone, We are back from our yellowtail shoot-out and we had a great trip with a graet group of anglers. The money jackpot went to the top three fish and they were Sam Esposto with a 41.4 white sea bass, 2nd place went to Dave Taylor with a 41.0 white sea bass and rounding out the big fish was Dale Lethcoe's 36.0 yellowtail. Great job on the Big Ones, guys. We want to thank our sponsors for this year's annual Y.T. shoot-out, Harry and Sarkas from Avet Reels who have been long time sponsors of us, going back to the Islander days. Most of the top ten yellows were caught using the JX and LX avets including the largest yellowtail for the trip. All of our loaner tackle on the Independence has been Avet and Seeker rods from day one and they continue to be a big part of our success. A big thanks goes out to Rick Ozaki from Westcoast marketing which includes Graf-tech rods, Fish Trap Iron, and Seaguar fluorocarbon Line, as well as long time tackle shop sponsor Sav-on Tackle and Rodger Eckhardt for all there give away gifts and help. The top ten yellows and Prizes were as follows: Dale Lethcoe with a 36 lb. fish won the $1,000 gift Cert. for an Indy trip, 2nd place went to Allen Mackenzie's 35.4 lb. yellow and won an Avet HX with Graf tech rod, 3rd was Roder Malech with a 34 lb. yellow, who won an Avet HX and $100 gift cert,4th place was Sam Esposto also with a 34 lb. yellow, who won a Avet HXW and $100 gift cert. 5th place was Carmen Morales with a 32.8 yellow, who won an Avet JX and $100 gift cert. 6th place went to Chris Cornette with a 30.2 yellow, who won a cal-star rod and $200 gift cert. 7th place went to Gilbert Sausedo with a 30.2 lb. yellow and won a Graf-tech rod and $200 gift cert. 8th place went to Ray Morales with a 29.8 lb. yellow, who won an Indy Jacket and $100 gift Cert. 9th place went to Dale Lethcoe with a 29.4 lb. yellow, who won an Indy hoody and $100 gift cert. and last but not least, for 10th place was Sam Esposto with his 3rd winning fish a 29.2 lb. yellotail, who won a Indy hoody and $100 gift cert. We would like to thank everyone who made the trip this year. Next year will be a six day yellowtail shoot-out, so it will give another day to target trophy yellowtail, possibly at Guadalupe Island or Alijos Rocks. For the trip we ended up with 428 yellowtail, 2 White Sea Bass, 1 Black sea bass released and lots and lots of Calico bass, most of which were released. We have departed on our Big fish Tackle 8 Day Adventure and are headed south in good weather with a great load of bait. We will report in later with our first day's report. Thanks for checking in, The Indy Gang.