TUNA SHOOTOUT (112410)!!! Independence arrived at Pt. Loma Sportfishing November 24 after a 12-day Avet reels Cow Shootout trip with skipper Jeff DeBuys and 29 passengers. "We spent a few days on the lower banks," said DeBuys, "and then we went out to the Buffer Zone. We had good fishing there, with the bulk of a couple hundred fish at 125 to 160 pounds. We found a few of 'em on meter marks." Mark Roden of Placentia won first place for a 175.6-pound Tuna. He bagged the winner with a sardine on a 7/0 Eagle Claw hook on 130-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon and 130-pound Line One Spectra. He fished with an Avet 50 reel and a Super Seeker 2 x 4 rod. "It took about an hour and a half," said mark. "He bit close to the boat, and then made a long run, and took me up and down the side of the boat. He came up in the starboard corner. I loved my new rod." Rick Berg of Saratoga won second place for a 173-pound Tuna, and John Arndt of Huntington Beach won third place for a 161-pounder.