Best Is Last


Royal Star tied up at Fisherman?s landing June 18 after an eight-day trip with owner-skipper Tim Ekstrom and 21 anglers. They visited Guadalupe Island among other spots, where they found some biting yellowfin and big yellowtail. After the boat was tied at the dock, Ekstrom?s daughter Charlie, five, dropped a sardine over the side and tagged a nice orangemouth corvina. It made her day.

Ekstrom put it this way on June 17: ??fantastic action on thirty five to sixty pound yellowfin tuna in addition to more action on big yellowtail, most of which were released. The shining star was definitely the yellowfin tuna. They made a good showing beginning around noon and continued through the late evening. We have a gloriously satisfied group of twenty anglers on board all of whom caught at least a couple of these beautiful grade yellowfin and most of whom landed their full day limit.?

John Wallace of Agoura Hills won first place. He caught a 65.4-pound tuna on a sardine and a ringed 2/0 Super Mutu hook. He fished with 28-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon leader, 30-pound Yo-Zuri line and 80-pound Spectra backing on a Penn 12 T reel and a Calstar 700 NL rod.

?I got nine tuna that day, said John, ?and I got this one in ten minutes. The tuna were hard fighters, and we had a topnotch crew.?

Kerry Iwnaga of Placentia was seond, for a 57.2-pound tuna, and Kief Adler of Oak Park was third, for a 56-pound yellowfin tuna. Darin Fitzgerald of San Jose had the best yellow, a 48.4-pound Guadalupe Island slug.

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