Captain Joe D'Acquisto backed Red Rooster III into her slip August 18 after a five-day West Coast Anglers trip with co-chartermasters David Rosenthal and Robert Peterson and 17 other anglers aboard. They fished offshore, at Cedros Island and up the beach, said Joe.

Three halibut were caught, two by chartermaster Rosenthal and one by Peterson, when the boat tried inshore up the beach.

James Pollard of Grand Terrace won first place for his 40-pound bluefin tuna. He told dock reporter Bill Roecker it bit on a sardine and a 2/0 ringed Owner Super Mutu hook. He used 40-pound Seaguar premier fluorocarbon, 40-pound Big Game line, 60-pound Izorline spectra backing on an Avet JX reel and a Graftech seven-foot rod.

Dan O'Leary of Pt. Loma won second place for a 38.3-pound bluefin and Pete Peterson, Robert's brother, won third place for a 37.2-pound bluefin tuna.