SAV-ON STUFFED (120810)!!! "Outstanding fishing," exclaimed Sav-On Tackle manager Roger Eckhart after stepping off the Independence at Pt. Loma Sportfishing December 8. "It was our best trip in ten years," added the chartermaster. "We're pretty well stuffed," agreed skipper Jeff DeBuys. "We've got one real good one, too, along with a few cows." He noted that the boat left the Buffer zone early to come in and fish for a few trophies before coming home. Hooked, played and caught by two anglers, the best fish wasn't jackpot-eligible. It weighed 293 pounds, and was taken by Sal Proetto of Lake Forest and Jerry Eldridge of Las Vegas. Sal used a mackerel on a 5/0 ringed Super Mutu hook tied to 100-pound Yo-Zuri leader and 130-pound Izorline Spectra on an Avet 30 W reel and a Calstar 760 H rod. Eldridge's tackle wasn't known at the moment. Al Brandenburg of San Clemente won first place for a 248-pounder he decked in 45 minutes. He said his sardine was pinned on a 7/0 ringed Eagle Claw hook. He used 100-pound Izorline and 130-pound Line One Spectra on an Avet 30 W reel and a Calstar 6465 XXH rod custom wrapped by The Longfin. Steve Chambless of Long Beach won second place for a 239-pound tuna. It bit a sardine on a 7/0 Eagle Claw on 100-pound Momoi and 130-pound Line One Spectra, on an Accurate 50 treated by Cal Sheets and a Calstar 770 XXH rod he wrapped. "I got a good sardine," he said, "and got bit and he took off. He crossed the bow three times and came up on the port side under the wheelhouse aftern an hour." Steven Zeng of San Francisco won third place for a 218-pound tuna he got with a sardine on an 8/0 ringed Super Mutu Owner hook on 130-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon and 130-pound Line One Spectra. He said he used an Accurate 50 W reel and a Calstar 700XH rod.