Chartermasters Miles Callison and Ken Bush returned to Pt. Loma Sportfishing October 6 after a good eight-day trip aboard the Intrepid with skipper Kevin Osborne and 23 other passengers. The group fished on The Ridge and at Alijos Rocks, and also tried some offshore kelps. They got near-limits of yellowtail and dorado and some nicer grade tuna.

"We released over 100 small yellows," said skipper Osborne, "and some dorado, too. There may be more tuna at The Rocks and they might be biting a bit better, but the sharks are still bad; big brown sharks about eight feet long. They don't even leave you a head." Anglers who got a tuna past the hungry grinners got some good ones. Andrew Peterson got the best tuna, but he said he lost a bigger one at deep color. He won first place for his 102.6-pound yellowfin.

"It took an hour," he told dock reporter Bill Roecker, "and he took me down to my last 50 yards of spectra. He came up in the starboard corner at the end. He's my best fish ever by a long ways."

Peterson used a sardine on a 3/0 ringed Owner Super Mutu hook tied to 50-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon, 50-pound P-Line and 80-pound Line One spectra on an Avet HXW reel and a Terez six and a half-foot rod.

Rudy Lopez of Pasadena won second place for an 85-pounder, and Ross Peterson of San Raphael won third place for a 78.9-pound tuna. Greg Braun of San Diego stood in as honorable mention with the winners for a lineup shot, posing with his 106-pound Alijos Rocks yellowfin tuna.