The morning after Halloween, Jeff DeBuys docked Independence at Pt. Loma Sportfishing after the Tunaholics ten-day trip with 29 anglers. Dennis Evans was chartermaster, and like the group just in front of his, he had the third-best tuna. "I'd have to rate this a ten-plus trip," said DeBuys. "We had excellent bluefin fishing on the way down, and we also got a lot of pargo and dorado and yellowtail."

Norman Chibana of Gardena won first place for a tubby 248-pound yellowfin that bit his sardine on a 4/0 ringed Owner Super Mutu hook tied to 80-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon. He said he fished with 80-pound Izorline and 80-pound spectra on a Penn 30 reel and a Calstar 6465 XH rod, and that the fish fought for an hour and a half.

Terry Williams of Lancaster won second place and became the first angler of the season to bag three 200-pound tuna. His winner weighed 225 pounds, and bit a sardine on a 3/0 ringed Owner Super Mutu hook tied to 100-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon and 130-pound spectra on an Avet 30 reel and a Calstar 700 M rod. His other tuna weighed 200.4 and 200 pounds even.
Dennis Evans of Austin, TX won third place for a 208.8-pound tuna. He caught it with a sardine on a 12/0 Mustad circle hook and 80-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon. He used 80-pound Line One spectra on an Avet HX reel and a Calstar 700 XH rod.

On his first long range trip, Gary Conterno of Rough & Ready CA bagged a 207-pound yellowfin with a sardine and a 7/0 Owner Super Mutu hook. He said he used 100-pound line and 130-pound Line One spectra on an Avet 50 reel and a Baby Boomer rod. The fight lasted 45 minutes.

Jay Graham of Auberry snookered a 206-pounder with a sardine on a 6/0 ringed Owner Super Mutu hook. He fished with 80-pound Seaguar Premier and 80-pound Line One spectra on a Daiwa 30 reel and a Calstar 700 MH rod. Jay said the fight went an hour and a half, and that it was his best fish ever.

Keith Kamimura of Fountain Valley caught a 200-pound yellowfin tuna with a squid under the kite on one of the boat's loaner rigs.