We had beautiful traveling weather the first two days coming from the grounds to Cedros Island. We spent the entire day at the Island yesterday for some action on small grade yellowtail which we released and a hand full of good grade yellowtail which we tagged and put on top of our existing catch. After breaking down the remaining tackle and having dinner in the flat calm lee of the Island we started the last leg of our trip home. We will be tying up at Lee Palm Sportfishing at 7:00 A.M. and Begin taking the tackle and personal gear off the boat, we should start unloading our catch at approximately 7:30 AM. Lee Palm's office will be open between 7:30 -8:00 AM tomorrow if you need to contact them for any reason.

A couple of pictures I'm sending along today are of two terminal gear products that work very well for us during the trip. One is a set of three Captain Jimmy's wahoo bombs that fished well, produced good fish and held up to the test of wahoo fishing. Owner and designer Jim Kokesh was on board this trip and caught a very nice limit of wahoo fishing these bombs.

The other picture is the NEW Mustad Demon Perfect Circle Offset 4X Strong hooks ( 39943BLN). Prior to this trip Captain Andy Cates told me the Red Rooster III had found "The Right Hook" for fishing giant Yellowfin Tuna with live bait, it is the Mustad 6/0 ringed 4X strong Demon circle hook, he went on to describe how perfect the hook was for hooking the live bait with out killing it and that he has seen zero failures with the hook. We fished the 6/0 ringed 4X Strong with the 100 and 130 pound test all trip and saw those exact same results. WE also made our double sardine kite leaders with the 7/0 and 8/0 4X strong non ringed hooks and they worked to perfection on "The Big Gear." We did not do much helium balloon fishing this trip but the same 7/0 and 8/0 size 4X strong will be the go to hook for the 150 pound application under the balloons. Mustad nailed it when they designed this hook for our live bait fishing application for Big Fish.

John G. and the Crew of the Red Rooster III