The 2011 Fred Hall Show in Long Beach is just about to start, the big tuna is up in the Vagabond booth and the Let Us Fish hats are for sale for $10 (it all goes to fight the MLPA legal battle) at booths like AFTCO, where I bumped into my old friend Greg Stotesbury. Greg is headed back to Chicago Saturday to watch his son graduate from Navy bootcamp, and then Zane is on to the nuclear engineering school in South Carolina.

Big excitement so far was the backdrop of the Point Loma Sportfishing booth falling just 10 minutes before the show was supposed to start. They're just two booths down from us on the 700 row. Don't forget to come by the booth with your iPhone and get $5 off a t-shirt, longsleeve t, sweatshirt or beanie. We'll be handing out the Annual SportfishingReport.Com Catch Awards all day and taking photographs of the winners. Here's the list again:

2010 Landing Awards

Seaforth Landing
#1 Albacore
#1 Bluefin Tuna
#1 Giant Squid
#1 Yellowfin Tuna
Pierpoint Landing
#1 Barred Sand Bass
#1 California Barracuda
#1 White Seabass

Long Beach Marina Sportfishing
#1 Bocaccio

Emeryville Sportfishing
#1 California Halibut
#1 Dungeness Crab
#1 Striped Bass


Sportfishing at 22nd Street
#1 California Sheephead
#1 Blue Perch
#1 Pacific Bonito
#1 Sanddab

H&M Landing
#1 California Spiny Lobster
#1 California Yellowtail

Randy's Fishing Trips
#1 King Salmon

Dana Wharf Sportfishing
#1 Kelp Bass

Channel Islands Sportfishing
#1 Lingcod
#1 Ocean Whitefish
#1 Rockfish

Virg's Landing
#1 Vermillion Rockfish

2010 Boat Awards

Large Sportboat Awards

Legend
#1 Albacore
#1 Bluefin Tuna

Monte Carlo
#1 Sand Bass
#1 Sanddab

Enterprise
#1 Bocaccio

Victory
#1 California Barracuda

Native Sun
#1 California Halibut

New Del Mar
#1 California Scorpionfish

Pursuit
#1 California Sheephead
#1 Blue Perch
#1 Kelp Bass
#1 Ocean Whitefish
#1 Pacific Bonito

San Diego
#1 California Yellowtail

New Seaforth
#1 Giant Squid

Ranger 85
#1 Lingcod

Admiral
#1 Rockfish
#1 Vermillion Rockfish

Freedom
#1 White Seabass

First String
#1 Yellowfin Tuna

Sportboat Awards

New Lo-An
#1 Albacore

Southern Cal
#1 Barred Sand Bass
#1 California Barracuda
#1 Blue Perch

Pacific Voyager
#1 Bluefin Tuna
#1 California Yellowtail
#1 Yellowfin Tuna

City of Long Beach
#1 Bocaccio

New Huck Finn
#1 California Halibut
#1 Dungeness Crab
#1 Striped Bass

Spitfire
#1 California Scorpionfish

Fury
#1 California Sheephead
#1 Kelp Bass
#1 Pacific Bonito

Jig Strike
#1 California Spiny Lobster

Chubasco
#1 King Salmon

Clemente
#1 Giant Squid

Pacific Horizon
#1 Lingcod

Sea Star
#1 Mako Shark

Mirage
#1 White Seabass
#1 Ocean Whitefish

Gentleman
#1 Rockfish

Sea Angler
#1 Sanddab (10 years in a row)

Princess
#1 Vermillion Rockfish

Small Sportboat Awards

Ultra
#1 Albacore
#1 White Seabass
Helena
#1 Barred Sand Bass

Cobra
#1 California Barracuda

Captain Hook
#1 California Halibut

Tortuga
#1 California Scorpionfish

Sea Jay
#1 California Sheephead

Alicia
#1 California Spiny Lobster
#1 California Yellowtail

Kahuna
#1 King Salmon

New Seeker
#1 Dungeness Crab
#1 Striped Bass
Caroline
#1 Giant Squid

New Bluefin
#1 Blue Perch

Island Tak
#1 Kelp Bass

Westerly
#1 Pacific Bonito

Erna B
#1 Rockfish
#1 Vermillion Rockfish

Orion
#1 Yellowfin Tuna

Six Pack Awards

Penetrator
#1 Albacore
#1 Barred Sand Bass
#1 California Yellowtail
#1 Vermillion Rockfish

Hi Count
#1 Bluefin Tuna

Bongos III
#1 Bocaccio
#1 California Sheephead
#1 Kelp Bass
#1 Ocean Whitefish
#1 Pacific Bonito
#1 Thresher Shark

Becky Ann
#1 Cabezon
#1 California Halibut
#1 King Salmon
#1 Dungeness Crab
#1 Giant Squid
#1 Rockfish

Alexes
#1 California Barracuda

El Gato Dos
#1 California Scorpionfish

Pacific Quest
#1 Lingcod

Dreamer
#1 White Seabass (10 years in a row)

Impulse
#1 Yellowfin Tuna