The Wahoodad & Willy eight-day charter ended July 25 at Pt. Loma Sportfishing when skipper Kevin Osborne docked the boat and his 26 passengers stepped off to unload a big catch. Chartermasters David Choate and Bill Casper Jr. were pleased with the variety and the size of the fish.

"We fished at Alijos for two and a half days," said Osborne. I set up to fish for quality of quantity, and we got tuna from 50 to 120 pounds. It was a steady pick on twitch fish. We had to use 40-poundline for the most part. We also got a few yellowtail and wahoo at Alijos.

"We fished on the beach next, and one morning we got some 30-pound yellowtail and four white seabass," continued the skipper. "That afternoon we got into a wide-open yellowtail bite and limited out on 18 to 22-pounders."

Dave Choate remarked, "The fishing on the kite was slow. I hooked a good one on a chunk, but he got sharked. We had a little problem with the brown sharks, and they got a few of the better fish."

An angler who didn't enter the jackpot, Jim Hochberg of Mexico City, caught the best tuna. It weighed 122.5 pounds. Jim also got the biggest white seabass, a 49-pounder.

Jan Satterfield of Denver won first place for her 113.5-pound tuna. She also got a white seabass, a 41-pounder. Jan said she got her yellowfin on a sardine and a 2/0 ringed Super Mutu hook tied to 40-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon, 40-pound Izorline and 65-pound Line One Spectra on an Accurate BX-2 500 reel (Accurate was a charter sponsor, said Choate), and a Calstar 6465 rod.

"He fought on the bow and that's where he came up," she remarked.

Jim Odlum of Mission Viejo won second place for a 110-pound tuna, and Chriss Lee of San Diego got a 109.2-pound yellowfin that won third place.

Garrett Weiss of Villa Park, 13, got an 88-pound tuna. Mark Goldstein, of Woodland Hills, 11, got his first big tuna, too.