DOYLE'S SECOND-LARGEST TUNA (120910)!!! Pat Doyle of Newport Beach has been fishing for big tuna a long time, mostly aboard the Shogun, the boat he got his 300-pounder on a few years ago. That's the boat he fished when he got his second-best tuna, a 290.8-pounder on the trip that arrived at Fisherman's Landing December 9. There were 23 anglers aboard the Seeker/Soft Steel trip, skippered by Norm Kagawa. Doyle is a Seeker pro-staffer, as is Brian Porter of Downey. The pair went one and two in the jackpot, much to the pleasure of Seeker's Joe Pfister, who appeared at the landing during the weigh-in. "We started at the Hurricane Bank," related Doyle to dock reporter Bill Roecker, "and fished there for a day, but they weren't biting very well. So we hopped over to the Buffer Zone off Clarion Island, and started out fishing for Wahoo. Pretty soon we started fishing for Tuna and they bit best during the early morning and late afternoon during the time we were there. "We fished mostly be drifting rather than by chasing schools of birds or porpoise. The sharks weren't bad, and the fish averaged 80 to 160 pounds or so. "My big fish bit about 100 yards out from the boat. He went down and then he took off. He stayed down through the fight and took me around the boat three times. After an hour and a half, we gaffed him up by the starboard bow." "Fishing was very good," commented skipper Kagawa, "about as good as I've seen it there for a long time." Doyle said he baited a sardine on a 7/0 ringed Super Mutu hook. He used 130-pound Soft Steel Ultra line and 130-pound Izorline Spectra on a Penn 50 VSW reel and a Seeker CTS 55 rod he wrapped. Brian Porter won second place for a 158.4-pound Tuna, and Joe Lentini of Cool bagged a 149.4-pound Yellowfin that won third place.