Justin Fleck brought Excel back after the annual three-day Stout-Eppler charter with plenty of yellowtail and bottom fish like red rockfish. There were 25 anglers aboard, who enjoyed the good fishing at San Martin Island.

Yosef Dangor of LA won first place for his 28-pound yellowtail. He bagged it with a sardine on a 3/0 hook, 30-pound Blackwater Fluoro, 50-pound spectra, a Shimano reel and a six-foot rod (he didn't know any of the names for his gear).

Kent Todd of Chino won second place for a 27-pound yellow, and Calvin Olexa of Cypress tied with Mason Vincent of Diamond Bar for third place. Both had 26-pound yellowtail.