Lets get straight to the action. We headed straight to the west end of Catalina, anchored up and waited for daybreak. Once daybreak hit the action started picking up as we hooked and landed a few bonito. Before long yellows were hanging !!! I landed this nice one with a lively sardine fished on 20 lb test line.

Dougie has been super busy battling on the front line during this years tough fire season and we all know thats no joke, so it was good to see him back on the water battling something a little less deadly.

Doug worked hard to keep this one out of the rocks and was feeling pretty good after landing this nice one. Now thats what we came for !!

Frank fishes hard and his hard work paid off early when he hooked and landed this nice yellow. Get used to seeing Frank's face because this isn't the last yellowtail he was gonna land on this trip. Way to go Frank. Live bait seemed to be the way to go early as most of the fish were hooked on sardines either flylined or with a small sliding sinker.

Most of the us guys were fishing hard on stern so we didn't pay much attention to the action on the bow. We should have because we missed the fight of the day. Brent waged the "Battle Royal" with a huge homeguard yellow and got all our attentioin when we heard something huge hit the deck. Our jaws dropped as deckhand Jim Butler dragged this huge mossback to the rear. We all knew our work was cut out for us if we were gonna top that monster for jackpot honors. Nicccceeeeee Fish Brent !!!!!

Everyone's heart sped up a bit knowing there were big yellows like that swimming around and willing to bite so every pick up was extra exciting. Glen got into the action with this yellow.

I told you we would be seeing a litle more of Frank. Frank on again and thats not a bonito pulling like that I can tell you that.

Frank earned the early lead for fisherman of the day honors with his hot stick, but the boys weren't about to concede just yet and it was still early.

These were all nicer grade yellows so every hookup was a long tough battle. Everyone worked together and we were landing most of the fish we hooked

Cameron took a little while to get the productive jig pattern down but once he did he started hooking some really nice fish on the yo-yo iron.

Doug was looking to get into the fisherman of the day running as well by hooking another Catalina yellow on live bait.

Yellow at the gaff !!!

Doug with another nice Catalina yellow on the deck.

Cameron was so hot with the yellow and green Salas 6X Jr you couldn't stand within 10 feet of him unless you wanted you're nose hairs burned. I had to get the word. He said he was throwing it out as far as he could, letting it sink to the bottom then cranking fast for 40 ft or so than letting it sink and cranking fast again. Way to go Cameron !!

Captain Eddie Moreno has the El Dorado back up at Longbeach Sportfishing from San Diego because he knows fisherman around these parts of town like to fish hard year round. The way this day was shaping up and with fish like this who can blame us. Captain Moreno with the gaffing honors on Mike's nice yellow.

Frank got hammered on the yellow and green jig as well.

What else can you say ???

This was Steven's first tango with a big yellow but he didn't show it because he was battling this one like an old pro.

Nice first yellow Steven. Hope you plan on eating that heart.