"We are making good head way coming home due to the good weather," said the report from Independence December 20, "so I will have to say we will be arriving back to San Diego around 0545 Thursday if all goes as planned. We again have been blessed with great fishing, and good weather for this trip. There are many guys that caught their personal best tuna, and everyone gained vast amounts of priceless experience you can only obtain out here on one of these trips. If all goes well at the scale, we should have 13 cows, and a few that might sneak in there. This was a Indy cow shoot out, so we would like to thank some of our sponsors who help out with prizes: Avet reels, Seeker rods, and the owners of Independence."