FOUR PLUS FOUR ON 15!!! Norm Kagawa pulled his Shogun into her berth at Fisherman's Landing January 18 after a 15-day open party trip that visited most of the southern cow pastures. Second skipper Bruce Smith said the trip left the Hurricane Bank and went into Clarion Island after a few days. In the Buffer zone they found very good biting tuna from 100 to 140 pounds. "Then we went into the southern banks," said skipper Kagawa, "and on our first day there we had good fishing on bigger fish, with one cow. The next day wasn't good, and we made a beeline for home." The trip produced four cows, and four trolled 18-pound albacore, the first of the year, on the way down. The longfin were encountered about 200 miles south, roughly in the area when the fleet usually finds them in the spring. Skipper Smith said the water on the southern banks was holding up well for the season at 74 degrees. Bob Dosek of Chino got the big fish, a 240.8-pound tusker and his best fish to date. "I got him in a hour," said Bob, on a mini-mackerel. "There was a 15-foot swell running, and he took me to the bow for the whole fight. I was very tired afterward." Dosek used an 8/0 Super Mutu hook on 130-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon tied to 130-pound Line One Spectra. He fished with a Tiagra 50 reel and a Shimano TC4 rod. Dave Stoltz of Ventura won second place for a 211-pound tuna that ate a smaller yellowfin on a 10/0 Mustad 7691 hook. "He bit out there over 300 yards away from the boat," said Stoltz to dock reporter Bill Roecker, "and then he ran in at me and made me wonder if it was a shark or something. The he left again and went out and down. He came up 50 minutes later on the side of the bow. My best fish before was 196 pounds." Stoltz used 130-pound Izorline and 130-pound Line One Spectra on a Penn 70 VSW reel and a Seeker 655 XXXH rod. "Dorado" Dave VanVoorhis bagged a 206.6-pounder with a flying fish flylined on a 9/0 Mustad 7691 hook he tied to 130-pound Momoi and 130-pound Line One Spectra. He used a Penn 50 SW reel and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod.