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The sport remains an incredible adventure for anyone wanting to do battle with creatures so powerful that grown men literally end up on their knees before landing one.Local businesses Klassen Construction and California Drilling Fluids recently sponsored an incredibly successful long-range fishing trip for 24 anglers aboard the world-famous Royal Polaris out of Fisherman’s Landing in San Diego. The six-day charter, captained by skipper Roy Rose, headed south into Mexican waters, where they found terrific action for wahoo, yellowfin tuna and yellowtail.After a 27-hour long trip that included a stop in Ensenada for an official on-board inspection by Mexican immigration officials, the RP finally anchored near Guadalupe Island, the last land mass off of the Pacific Coast before reaching Hawaii. Within minutes of shutting down the ship’s big diesels near the archipelago’s Battle Island, 50-150-pound yellowfin tuna and 25-50-pound yellowtail went on the bite and stayed on the “chew” for the next four days. During the six-day trip, almost all of the 24 anglers on board managed to catch their daily limits of the great-eating tunas.Chowing down on almost any live bait tossed into the water, the unusually large fish put on an infamous display of raw power when hooked, speeding away on long runs that challenged the equipment, arms and backs of every angler on board. So amazing are these fish that their speed and power on the initial hookup is similar to tying fishing line around the bumper of a car and telling the driver to speed away for 300 or 400 yards. And that’s just the start of the battle!Using heavy rods and reels rated for a minimum of 80-pound test with 80-to-100-pound test leaders to prevent cut-offs by sharp teeth, many fishermen still felt they were under-gunned for the powerful tunas. Once hooked up, some anglers spent up to an hour trying to bring the fish to the deckhand’s gaff, all the while confronted with other lines, tangles, sharks and the sheer, unrelenting, raw tuna-power that prevented th... (The Bakersfield Californian)

Heavy GunFAIL activity marked the last full week of January. While just 38 guns were “mistakenly” left in coat pockets and carry-ons at the airport, gun owners who stayed closer to home were plenty busy, with 31 accidentally shooting themselves inside the space of seven days, bringing the January total to 115. Twelve minors were accidentally shot, ten accidental shootings resulted in fatalities, eight gun owners accidentally shot into their neighbor’s homes and property, and six law enforcement officers were involved in firearms mishaps (plus one judge).Actually, it was almost two judges. The one I counted actually shot himself at home, when he went to clean his gun after a visit to the firing range. In the “almost” case, the shot was accidentally fired by a St. Louis County Sheriff’s Deputy “handling his weapon” inside the Civil Courts building downtown. His shot passed through at least one interior wall, and lodged in a judge’s desk. In another remarkable pairing of law enforcement-related GunFAILs, an Orange County, California, sheriff’s deputy lost an AR-15 after placing it atop the trunk of his car and forgetting it before driving off, and an FBI agent who forgot to lock his car in Benicia, California, had three handguns stolen out of it. And just to round out the law enforcement officer category, how about the off-duty Freeport, Texas, cop at home in his apartment in Clute, who accidentally fired his weapon through the apartment wall, hitting his sleeping neighbor in the lower back? Not good!Today’s headline comes from the last item on the week’s list, the Abington, Pennsylvania, woman who took her gun with her for a run, but lost it along the way and didn’t know exactly where. So look out, residents of Abington and Upper Dublin, there’s a gun on the loose out there! Though this could just as easily have happened with a swimming pool, and they’re dangerous, too.Below the fold, the week’s full list. (Daily Kos)