"We had an excellent day of fishing," wrote skipper Justin Fleck aboard Excel November 18, "in very nice weather; Life doesn\'t get any better than this. The morning started off with good action on 25 to 60-pound fish. After everyone put a few in the fresh well, we went looking for cows and we found them.

"Late in the day we hit a sonar school of gigantes. The three biggest fish were boated by Bill Cashman, who had a 206, Wayne Snowbarger with a 268, and Bill Anderson (shown in photo) with 273-pound yellowfin tuna. Congratulations!"