Five days aboard Independence with skipper Jeff DeBuys paid off with a mixed catch of albacore, bluefin, yellowfin and yellowtail for 30 anglers on a Save-On Tackle charter. DeBuys docked at Pt. Loma July 15 and weighed the best of the catch.

"We saw good sign of albacore, bluefin and some yellowfin," said Jeff. "And we had flat calm weather until yesterday, when it came up to 15 knots."

Anglers said the star of the trip was 15-year-old Austin Henderson of Bellflower, who won the jackpot for a 43-pound bluefin. Austin pitches for the Mayfair High baseball team, and said he finished off his tuna in 20 minutes. He got his prizewinner on a sardine and a 2/0 Mustad 91450 hook. He used 30-pound Ande line on a Newell 332 reel and a Calstar 700 M rod.

L. A. James of Oakland won second place for a 40.6-pound albacore, and Joe Armstead of Mountain View used 20-pound line to find a 39.2-pound longfin that was good enough for third place.