"We had a good trip," said Excel skipper Justin Fleck at Fisherman's Landing January 6. He had just come back from a ten-day trip with 29 anglers. "It was good fishing offshore. The warm water pushed south," he added. Andy Papworth of White City, OR won first place on the trip, for a 157-pound tuna he got with a sardine on a ringed 4/0 Mustad Demon circle hook. He said he used 80-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon and 130-pound Spectra on a TLD 30 reel and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod. Jason House of Reno, NV won second place for a 154-pounder, and Chris Kumai of Berkeley won third place for a 136-pound yellowfin tuna.