Here's Paul with a nice mossback.

Todd with deckhand Mike.

A yellow for Gary.

Here's Edith with a nice yellowtail.

On the second day Jason was one of the first anglers to hook up.

..and the end result.

Paul and another yellow.

We woke up at daybreak to absolutely ideal conditions. Flat calm seas, no wind and a great sunrise. It wasn't long before the first kelp paddy of the day was spotted. Not seconds after the first sardines hit the water cries of "Hook up" and "Fish on" echoed throughout the boat. It didn't take Kyle Sanna of Chula Vista very long to hook and land his first ever Yellowtail. Way to go Kyle

Dan Kennedy from Long Beach got into the action early as well.

Captain Doug Reed helps Craig " Mr.Coffee Grinder" Leonetti with a nice Yellow. Anyone who thinks spinning reels can't land big fish needs to look at a couple of Craigs' fish on this trip. Good job Craig.

Shayne Demille was in town from St George Utah and decided to make the trip on the Renegade. Good call Shayne. Here he is with one of the nicer yellows from the first stop.

Here is another shot of Kyle's first Yellow. I'm not sure how he got out of eating the heart. Lucky you.

We ended up landing six or so yellows on the first paddy before it dried up. Time to move on to the next one.

Craig put that spinning reel through good test with this nice yellow.

Gary Langdale from San Clemente got a nice yellow early as well.