"Here we are our fist day of fishing on our 15-day trip," read the report from the Independence November 28. "I must say it was quite decent. We ended the day with a good grade of tuna most were 180 to 185 pounds. In addition we landed three tuna over 200 pounds, two of which were over 250 lbs. Our weather hasn't been cooperating with us; it's rather windy and choppy. When we're sitting on the anchor it's not bad. If we keep up this pace of fishing we should end up with a great trip."