With Keenan, Christopher and Calvin on my side and hooking up big time, we were wearing those Arizona boys down.

Here's John with a beautifull Yellow.

This fish couldn't believe it! His owner didn't participate in the jackpot. Game on gents!

Todd got the hot stick and nailed a nice Yellowtail. He's having a ball.

Scott Iverson of Long Beach needed a little help from his pal Ed Rudolph of Lakewood to show off a brace of 37-pound yellowtail.

Owner Bill Poole???s daughter-in-law Sarah Poole fished aboard the Excel on the trip, and got some nice tuna, yellowtail and bottom species. She remarked on how hard the Guadalupe yellowfin fought.

Enrique Cienfuegos of Moreno Valley scored on a huge, 80.2-pound yellowtail as he was fishing a mackerel on the dropper loop on the big island???s windward side

Here's Rudy with a nice Yellow. Rudy is by far one of the friendliest anglers I've ever encountered! You couldn't ask for a better group of 19 anglers to soak a line with.

We were catching nice calicos and bonita but hadn't seen any sign of any yellows yet so Laney Hackman thought he'd give his bass rod with 12 lb test and run. Sure enough not a minute later a yellow eats his sardine and was off to the races. It was fun watching that bass reel screaming like mad and begging for mercy but we knew he didn't astand achance of stopping these mean one. In a couple seconds the begging was over as the yellow dashed for the rocks and broke off. A good sign though !! Yellows were in the area. Laney fishes with the Turners Rod and Reel Club out of Pasadena so you know he had another nice stick ready to go. He throws out another lively sardine and Bingo!, he's on again. This time with a little heavier setup with a lot more pulling power. Before long the yellow was at the side of the boat and ready for the gaff.

Were talking about hooking big homeguard mossbacks in shallow water close to the island here not hooking a rat yellow off a kelp paddy in 2000 ft of water here. These yellows are big and mean, pull extra hard and know every underwater rock and kelp garden around the island. You need to lean back and really pull hard on these big boys if you want to get them to the boat. Laney put the hammer down on this one, didn't give it an inch and Nathan Maciel was ready with the gaff when Laney got it to the boat.

This wouldn't be the last nice fish Laney hooked into today. I'm not sure what they teach anglers over there at Turner's but I'm sure gonna find out because Laney sure knows how to hook the nice ones.

Greg Pollano from Torrance was able to get one of his sardine past the sealions gauntlet and into the fish zone. He got picked up big time and knew exactly what to do after that. He set the hook let it run for a bit, then really leaned back on this nice yellow and cranked away. There was no way Greg was gonna let this one run him into the rocks. Captain Mike Frank was there for the gaffing honors on Greg's nice yellow

Did I mention that Laney wasn't done catching big fish.

Laney nailed this one on a scrambled egg colored jig

Vince hooked into a nice one and after a few minutes he landed this tough yellow without a problem.

Tina made the trip from Anaheim and wasn't the least bit intimidated by the boys on board. She was up on the bow fishing with a sardine when she hooked into something big. This monster San Clemente yellow ran her all the way around the boat. She stayed with him every inch of the way and after a long battle was able to get this huge yellow within range for Nathan to gaff it. Way to go Tina nice fish !!!!

I got everything I was looking for and more when I hooked into this nice mossback. Man these things pull hard and just never give up !!!! Luckily I had the proper set-up ready and could pull a little harder then him. This big boy put up a heck of a battle but soon I had a nice tail on the boat.

Glen Latter from Lomita was the next angler to go Bendo! on a nice yellow and by the way this one was pulling you could tell it was a nicer grade fish !!!!

Nice one Glen !!!!

Laney was slowly putting together a very impressive haul of nice fish.