Maraurder jigs trolled behind the Independence produced five wahoo for angler aboard the Stevens charter, with Brent Stevens as chartermaster. The boat returned under owner Mark Pisano's hand August 29 with 22 anglers accounting for 120 tuna and plenty of yellowtail. The tuna were caught at Guadalupe Island. "Today we decided to try for species other than tuna," wrote skipper Pisano August 27, "and we were pleasantly surprised on the day we had. We started the day with a jig strike which was a 75-pound wahoo, we ended up with four large wahoo for the day and we lost a few as well. We also hit a few kelps which held lots of the dorado, after tagging enough of those for the guys we headed in for some yellowtail and had wide open action for the last couple of hours of daylight, The fish were mostly 12 to 18 pounds and they bit the iron very well."

There was no jackpot on the trip, so a lineup featuring some of the wahoo was photographed. Ken Larson of Lake Mills, IA had a 53-pounder, Tom Peterson of El Segundo got a 44-pounder, and David Schwartz of Stanford, CT stood with a skinny that hadn't been weighed.