Bill Haven's eight-day trip aboard Red Rooster III with 15 anglers and skipper Andy Cates returned to H&M Landing June 24 with a nice mixed catch, including some large yellowfin from Alijos Rocks. "We had a great trip," said Havens, a rod wrapper whose best fish weighed 91 pounds, to dock reporter Bill Roecker. "I got four good yellowfin and six bluefin tuna." He wasn't in the jackpot, and got the big fish on a flylined bait.

David Bandy of Mesa, AZ won first place for a 90.7-pound yellowfin he dispatched in ten minutes after it took a squid under the kite (as did all three of the jackpot winners). Bandy used one of the boat's kite rigs to make the catch. The outfit has 130-pound Izorline and 130-pound spectra on an Accurate 50 and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod.

Mike Reese of El Cajon bagged an 88.6-pound yellowfin for second place, and Charles Hudak of San Diego picked off an 80-pounder for third place.

Making his second long range trip was 14-year-old Charlie Saraspe, son of Andy and Sarah Saraspe, owners of Five Star Fish Processing. Charlie will start school at University City High in San Diego next fall. In middle school he was a baseball player, but these days fishing occupies most of his attention. Charlie got his best fish ever, a 65-pound yellowfin, on a flylined squid. He also caught a 38-pound yellowtail.