Due to some freak accident, I was on top of my game on this trip. The kelp was a little hard to find out there, but I managed to get lucky at most of the stops. Here's the Jackpot fish.

Here's David Joyce with a Yellowtail!

The last patty was wide open! Here's Captain Randy giving a hand on deck.

Ruben finished his day with this nice Yellow.

It was one of those stops that just made me giddy. Thanks again for all your help AJ!

Alex Ruiz of Rancho Cucamonga won first place for a 29.6-pound yellowtail. Mike Mayes of Rancho Santa Margarita won second place for a 28.4-pounder. Joe Preciado of San Diego was third, for a 28.2-pound yellowtail.

Here's my buddy Bob from Fresno. He's one of the SFR regulars. He actually invited me to join him on this trip. Bob got the first Yellow on the boat. He set up a Halibut rig and got a Yellow. I'm so proud of him. He lost two more hookups using this rig. Good job, Bob!!

Nice Yellow caught by boat crew Ricardo. I think he ended up with 2 or 3 Yellows for the day. We finally left the dock about 7:30am, loaded two tankful of nice dines. It took us about 4 hours to get the east end towards the back.

Here a photo with Captain Chris & Jeff. Jeff has the hot stick on this trip. This is his second Yellow. We hooked a bunch Huge Calico up to 6 lb Toad. We released most of them. Great pleasant trip with 11 anglers. We got the whole boat for ourselves. It's like one of the those SFR Charter Trips.

Captain Chris & Crew Paul Tutunjian. I tell you this is one of those trip you don't wanna miss. We fish with Captain Chris & the crew. You fish with the PRO. We had lots of room with lots of nice baits. Just awesome trip.

Scott got the jackpot of the day. He used a sinker & as soon as it hit the floor he got hit instantly.

Well, this is his third Yellow. I think he got this one on a scrambled egg Salas 6x jr. This guy knows how to fish. Photo with Captain Chris.

Here's Captain Chris with another hookup. This is what it's all about. You fish while you work. I really enjoy fishing with the guys. I would to thank Captain Chris & the crew for giving us this terrific trip. Also I would like to thank Captain Norris for supporting Sportfishingreport.com

Paul weighed the jackpot. We fished till about 4:30pm at the Island. This is longest 3/4 day trip I ever been. I am not complaining. We got to the dock about 8pm. We brought home 9 Yellowtail, 33 Bonito(released a lot), 31 Huge Calico(ranging up to 6 lb), & 1 Sheephead. Everybody had a good time. I'll see you guys on my next trip.

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.