INDY CHALLENGE (100810)!!! The top eleven Tuna were winners in the Indy Challenge, a six-day flyer aboard Independence with skipper Jeff DeBuys and 29 anglers. The boat docked at PT. Loma Sportfishing October 8. "We had beautiful weather on our six-day said DeBuys to dock reporter Bill Roecker. "It was very nice at The Rocks, and we had excellent fishing with squid. Squid was the key, the secret's out. They're right there at Alijos, and just the right size for the kite," he said as an aside to Steve Loomis, standing nearby. Paul Kaminski of San Clemente won first place for his 117.6-pound lunker Yellowfin. He said he got it with a sardine on a 3/0 Mutu hook, on 40-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon and 40-pound P-Line. He used 65-pound Power Pro Spectra on an Avet LX reel and an Avet seven-foot rod. "It was my first trip," he noted. "My best fish before was a local tuna of 32 pounds. He beat me up bad. He bit after a long soak, took me around the boat twice, and he came to gaff up by the bow." Garrick Sakado of Torrance won second for a 107.6-pound Tuna that came on the boat's kite rig with a squid baited on Mustad 7691 11/0 hooks. The kite rig uses 130-pound Izorline and Izor Spectra with an Avet 50 reel and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod. Mark Walsh of Huntington Beach won third place for a 96.6-pound Alijos Rocks Yellowfin.