Bruce Smith docked Shogun September 24 after a five-day Western SportsShop charter trip to Guadalupe Island that found the biggest tuna from the island that Bill Roecker has seen and recorded. The 152.2-pound yellowfin was weighed on the certified scales at Fisherman's Landing, and was caught by San Pedro angler Keith Moore.

Such a fish usually has a story to go with it, and this one had a better tale than most.

"He was on the balloon, with a sardine," said Moore. "He blew up under the balloon and I fought him for an hour. Then the hook pulled out and I thought he was gone, but it snagged him in the tail and I finished him off backward in another half-hour."

The hook was a ringed Super Mutu 4/0 tied to 50-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon leader and 50-pound Izorline backed with 80-pound Izorline Spectra on a TLD 30 reel and a six-foot Penn Sabre rod.

Jeff Bochesa of Santa Ana won first place for a 99.8-pound tuna he got with a sardine on a 3/0 Mutu hook, 50-pound Izorline and 60-pound Izor Spectra, with an Avet HX reel and a Calstar 700 H rod.

David Ong of Buena Park was second for a 96.8-pounder, and Walter Nichols of Simi Valley won third place for a 94.6-pound Guadalupe Island yellowfin tuna.