Royal Star arrived at Fisherman’s Landing December 21 after a ten-day trip with 14 anglers, regulars who wanted cows. The trip was sponsored by Accurate and Blackwater, with the chartermaster listed as Bart Ryder, and visited the Buffer Zone, where anglers decked seven cows.
The best fish was ineligible, as it was caught by crewman Greg Tanji. He hooked the 263-pound beast in the dark while the anglers were in the galley at dinner. It was a 30-minute oddball of a tuna that emptied his Accurate ATD 12 twice before it ran back at the boat.
“It came in at the surface, kicking with its tail threshing the water,” noted Tanji. “It bit a sardine on an 8/0 Eagle Claw hook. I was using Kevin Leong’s gear, with 130-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon and 130-pound Blackwater Spectra. The rod was a Calstar 770 XH.”
Bob Palatella of La Jolla won first place for a 220-pounder that bit his salami almost as fast as the bait hit the water in the grey light. He said he fished with a 6/0 Owner Gorilla hook on 130-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 130-pound Blackwater Spectra on an Accurate ATD 30 reel and a Calstar 7465 XH rod. The fish took him around the boat twice and came up ion the starboard corner after a 45-minute scrap.
Second place would have been a three-way tie between Kevin Leon of Aliso Viejo, Warren Sakamoto of Long Beach and Bob Pound of Lake Elsinore. They all had 214-pounders, but Warren doesn’t enter the jackpot. That made it easier, with Kevin and Bob splitting the second and third-place prize.
Kevin’s 214 came on a sardine and a 6/0 gorilla hook on 100-pound Izorline fluorocarbon tied to 130-pound Izorline Spectra, on an Accurate ATD 12 reel and a Calstar 770 XH rod.
Bob’s 214 bit a salami on a 20/0 Eagle Claw hook tied to 130-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon and 130-pound Izorline Spectra. He used an Accurate ATD 50 reel and a Calstar 665 XH rod to do the job in 20 minutes. He also had a 210-pounder. Skipper Ekstrom got a shot of the event, and remarked, “Long Range veteran Bob Pound takes photo honors today leveraging one of his two jackpot winning "deuces" in like the old pro he is.”
The last cow, a 211-pound tuna, was caught by John Santaella of Santa Maria, on a sardine and a 9/0 Eagle Claw hook. John said he used 130-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 130-pound Izorline Spectra on an Accurate ATD 50 reel and a Calstar 7465 XH rod.
“It was a half-hour fight,” said Santaella, “after he bit in the corner at dawn. He pulled like a mule!
“The weather was really nice,” continued Santaella. “The boat never rocked. We left our wine bottles on the table at night; no sweat.”
Report by Bill Roecker at FishingVideos.com
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