Here is Al tring to make his yellow look bigger he succeded if you ask me

We were lucky enough to find a paddie which produced all of day twos yellows

Here is Ryan goofing off ... we all had a great time fishing with Shawn

Here is Ryan with almost the second day of winning the JACKPOT ... with the big game fish hold

The guys cleaning the second days fish on our nice ride home Thanks guys it was an AWESOME trip!!!!

Excel Jackpot winners

One angler, Jerry Kruse of Long Beach, got four of those big yellows by flylining sardines. He posed with the best brace. ???It was nice at Cedros Island,??? said skipper Toussaint, ???and there was some great fishing on the surface iron. The bank was good; we scratched out a decent catch.???

The trip???s jackpot winner had what is likely the biggest yellowtail to come from the Benitos, a 65-pound mossback caught by Denny Walker of Phoenix, who posed with second skipper Kyle ???Rooster??? Karcher. Walker flylined a sardine on a 3/0 Mustad hook, 30-pound Izorline and a rental outfit with a Penn 500 reel and a Seeker seven-foot glass rod. ???I had to fight him for a long time,??? said Walker, ???a long 15 or 20 minutes. He almost had me over the side, at one point.???

Another avid angler.

Bud Edwards of Palmdale was the jackpot winner for a 54.2-pound mossback yellow he bagged with a sardine on a 3/0 ringed Super Mutu hook on 40-pound blue Izorline. He said he used a Seeker 6470 Black Steel rod.

Jackpot winners.

Bernie Arum of Huntington Beach won first place with his first big tuna since his last long range trip, in 1989. His Hurricane Bank tuna weighed 269.3 pounds, and bit on a puffer fish baited on a 9/0 Mustad 7691 hook, tied to 130-pound blue Izorline and 130-pound Izorline Spectra backing on a Penn 50 SW reel and a 760H Calstar rod. Bernie also had a 258-pounder.

Michael Hudspeth of Poway, 11 years old, was proud of his catch. ???I got 14 yellowtail,??? he allowed.

Excel jackpot winners.

Gary Niu caught the Jackpot fish. A nice Anacapa Island homeguard Yellowtail. This sucker weighed 32 pounds.

We started trolling early in the AM, and came across a kelp paddy that produced a few smaller-grade yellows. For small fish these guys pull pretty hard!

Bob hooked up on our first paddy too!

Zippy drove a long way to fish on this trip. He is from Santa Cruz where he is a regular on the Velocity. This was his first time fishing in San Diego, and his first yellowtail. It was good meeting you Zippy and I look forward to seeing you on future SFR charters!