We spent yesterday's morning bite cutting off everything we hooked looking for two more good ones that we could fit in our last fish hold, Hector Lopez and Bob Michener had the best two fish and they were the ones we took to finish off the tuna portion of our trip. I must mention and highly commend the sportsmanship of Bill House, he cut off a 230 pound fish yesterday morning due to the fact he already had two good ones in the hold, leaving room for someone else to have the opportunity to put a duce or better aboard. We spent the rest of the day targeting a few more wahoo and at dark started heading up the line to take advantage of a weather window right now that is just perfect. Flat calm seas traveling north this morning makes our decision to leave the grounds seem to be a good one. We have some time and are gearing up to fish Cedros Island on the way home for a few yellowtail to fill in the cracks between the catch on board. We will continue to report our days activities and results as we work our way back to San Diego.

The pictures today are of Hector Lopez and a beautiful 237 pound Yellowfin he captured while Kite fishing yesterday morning just after daylight, congratulations Hector. Also I have been saving a couple of pictures for the ride home of Ray Borders. Ray spent most of the daylight hours each day fishing with his Accurate 50 size sinning reel matched to a Calster spinning rod designed I believe specifically for this high quality sinning reel. Ray had the reel filled with spectra and used a top shot of 100 fluorocarbon line, he had some epic 1-2 hour battles on tough 90-150 pound Yellowfin tuna and the gear held up flawlessly. All of us on board where highly impressed with the amount of pressure Ray could put on the fish and the tackle without a failure. Ray is 6' 6" tall and has been an Alaskan commercial fisherman his entire life and fishes extremely well, he truly put that Accurate spinning reel and Calstar rod to the test.

John G. and the Crew of the Red Rooster III