The best fish of the trip was a wahoo that moved into the young season???s top spot. The 76-pound ???skin was caught by Angel on a Fish Trap seven-inch swim bait in white ???glow??? color.
Angel Cruz of San Diego won first place for his 76-pound wahoo. Mike Birmingham of Snelling was second, for a 61.2-pound yellowfin, and Matt Brown, a 22-year-old student (computers and robotics) from San Diego won his first long-range jackpot spot; third place for a 58.4-pound yellowfin tuna.

Ed Hill with his Wahoo just after reeling it in!

Jenny Armstrong caught the biggest Wahoo of the trip.

Gerald Fukui caught a 50 lb Wahoo.

Ed Chesney of San Diego got a 39-pound wahoo on a sardine and the balloon.

The best wahoo was caught by young angler Adam Hoit of North Las Vegas, who got his 43.6-pound skin of a black and purple marauder.

Dick Parker of El Segundo won the Seeker Trophy for the best fish on a Seeker; a 39-pound wahoo.

David Bell???s first-place skinny weighed 51.7 pounds on the certified scales. Bob Bell???s wahoo weighed 47 pounds. Bob is from Corona. Larry Rosebaum of Riverside won third place, for 34.2-pound wahoo.

Mike Stout of Huntington Beach got the winner, a husky 65-pounder. Stout also got a 54.8-pound skin, also on a mackerel, and it won second place. Brother Milton Stout of Riverside won third place, for a 50-pound, gold Raider-eating wahoo.

Doug Blalock of Whittier had a good ten-day trip aboard the Spirit of Adventure with owner-skipper Mike Keating. At the H&M scales October 29, he won first place for a wahoo. He won second place for a wahoo. He won third place for a wahoo.

Warren Bergman of Mira Loma won first place, for a 58-pound wahoo. Dean Weber of Lakeside Bait & Tackle was second, for a 43-pound skinny. Randy Corbin of Ventura won third place for a 41-pounder

Art Lyons of LA had the best ???hoo, a 58-pounder. Phil Bailey of Malibu (???Malibu Phil???) won second place for a sardine-eating 53-pounder. Stephen Kovalcheck of San Diego was third, for a 52-pound wahoo.

Art Lyons of LA had the best ???hoo, a 58-pounder. Phil Bailey of Malibu (???Malibu Phil???) won second place for a sardine-eating 53-pounder. Stephen Kovalcheck of San Diego was third, for a 52-pound wahoo.

Bill Hopkins won second place and moved the bar for the season???s best wahoo up to 83.4 pounds.

Melanie Stewart of Garden Valley was on her first fishing trip ever, as a birthday present from her husband, and she got a couple of wahoo on sardines. She posed with the larger one.

John Ma of Pacific Palisades was also on his first long range trip, so naturally he won the jackpot, for a 57-pound wahoo. Tim Whelan Jr. of Aliso Viejo was second, for a 54-pound wahoo he got with a blue and gold bomb. Neal Cooke of Ft. Collins, CO took third place for a 49-pound wahoo

George Schuyler of Pt. Hadlock, WA won the jackpot for a 51.2-pound wahoo. Steve Robinson of Garden Grove was second, for a 50.2-pounder. Tony Altieri of Toluca Lake was hot on his heels with a 50.1-pound skinny, good for third place.

Alex Bravo of San Diego won first place in the Supreme???s jackpot, for a chunky 73.8-pound wahoo. He said he bagged it with a gold and purple Burns Bob, on 40-pound Ande line, a Trinidad 30 reel and a Penn Sabre six and a half-foot rod.

Alex Bravo of San Diego won first place for a chunky 73.8-pound wahoo.

Eiche posed with the trip???s best wahoo, a 57-pounder that ate a trolled Marauder in orange and black. As a trolled fish, it wasn???t eligible for the jackpot.