Hector made a mess of the deck with this fish. Great job man! Tight lines, bent rods and bloody decks, it's every angler's mission in life!

06' was the fishing year that just won't stop! Keep those Santa hats next to those rods because it ain't over yet!

Victory went to Hector Diaz with this beautiful Catalina Island Yellow.

Someone had to do it! Jason B., Marlon Salang, and Newton Isaac had a great time out on the water. Marlon now has a taste to remember it by.

Keenan Okata with Captain John Woodrum with his first Yellowtail on his first saltwater fishing trip!

Captain John with Keenan's first Yellowtail, nice gaff Captain!

Nick Padilla of The House of Blues, kissing his first Yellowtail while coworker Chris Snow is watching on.

Some of you might recognize him from the Q, but now he's cooking up the grinds for the patrons of the House of Blues. He's still keeping tight lines though

Time to pull out the biggest fish! Keenan Okata with 4 nice Yellows on his first boat trip ever! Way to go Keenan!

Doug Johnson with his father Alvin and some of their fine Yellowtail to come on board the Pursuit.

Angel and Denise Vicente, a husband and wife combo teamed up to pull in these lovely tails. Angel also released a nice White Seabass.

San Pedro local Cal Preston may be the real good luck charm, he has been on the Pursuit's biggest three Yellowtail trips in the last year.

The Captain pulled the Pursuit around on our first spot of the day and we had barely even settled down on the anchor before several rods went bendo. Verne was one of the first ones on and on big time!!! Verne spends his free time servicing and repairing reels down at Sav-On Tackle in Santa Fee Springs and it was extra generous of him when he offered to fix all of our reels for free if he landed a yellow today. We were all pulling for him. I feel real good about his chances of landing this one and if he doesn't he can't blame his reel. What's the address of Sav-On again.

Jason made the trip down from Foothill Ranch to fish on the Pursuit and he didn't waste much time getting in on the action.

Verne was pumping his fist after Danny Ilustre stuck the gaff in the first nice yellow of the day. Way to get things started Verne ! We were all pumping our fists for Verne as well.

You've probably heard some reports floating around and might find some wimpy 4-10 lb stripped down model yellows roaming the island biting on anything you throw at them and selling for cheap somewhere. Well not here, not today!!! Were talking fully loaded, super-charged, special edition, throwing in the yellow leather trim as well, honest to goodness 20 lb homeguard yellows here and no I'm not a car salesman. Jason was taking his sweet time test riding this luxury model and enjoying every second. I got a feeling this baby may be headed for the garage.

I didn't think this test ride was ever gonna end and Jason was hoping it never would.

We all gathered around Jason and his catch, wanting to touch it and try it out for ourselves. Jason was more than happy to show his prize off to everyone and was even kind enough to tell us where he got it from. Nice yellow Jason, you know if they make that in a convertible.

Seems like every time I fish with Vince we hook up with some really nice fish and today was looking to be no exception. Hooked up big time with beautiful Catlina Island in the background. I don't think it gets much better than this ! Unless I was hooked up as well of course.

Vince with his first and not last nice yellow of the day.