I'll type my version up.
We loaded all the gear on the trailer Thurs. night before the trip and took off early Fri. morning with MKNOTT, Iceman, Adi, me and Brent rollin in the caravan. Pulled into Tucson in the afternoon where we met Seamous (one of the owners of El Duque) Todd (another passenger) and Andy's dad John and then switched the trailer over to the air conditioned/dvd playing van. From there it was another 5 or 6 hours through Mexico before we stepped into the tropical night and transferred everything down the dock and onto the boat.
First order of business was making bait. We were stoked to sabiki 5 or so caballitos in the bay, along with a bunch of small square shaped baits that we called pompano (later id'd as mexican lookdown) and a couple of croakers for good measure.
mexican lookdown
caballito
The next morning we found ourselves chugging through the sea of cortez dragging a couple jigs on the outriggers and one down the middle. We had a few dorado stops on the jigs but nothing worthy of dumping the kayaks for. On one stop Seamous decided to jump in the water with a mask and alerted us of three dorado swimming nearby. Adi was able to drop a bait back and got picked up. John reeled in the 15lber.
Still chugging along we see a marlin come up in the spread and take the starboard outrigger jig. Andy then started cussing at people and violently pushing his way toward the rod to grab it before anyone else (alright, alright, mike handed it to him) and made decent work of about a 100lb striper.
We got a call of a net setup not far from us (turned out to be a longline) so we buzzed over there and dropped the kayaks in the water. I think everybody had a shot at a dorado. Adi caught at least two that I know of at this stop. Mike got a nice one, I ended up with a ~16lber and we had plenty of clicker pulls and drops on those lookdown baits because the fish just couldn't get their mouths around the awkward shape to find the hook. Seamous speared a nice one (37lbs) and we saw a couple sailfish jumping around but couldn't get a bait on em. Catching that dorado in the middle of the sea of cortez in DEAD still and silent conditions was just unbelievable. Nothing compares to that fish launching out of the water multiple times less than 15ft from my boat. Just awesome. Oh, by the way, water temp at this spot was 90 degrees. No typo!
Once we got back to the El Duque the sun was starting to go down and we pointed the bow toward Isla San Pedro. Before the sun slipped away Andy earned himself the new nickname "Marlin Hog" by displaying another inappropriate act of selfishness as he punched Mike in the face, pushed Adi overboard and spit on me as he again charged his way toward the troll rod (alright, i called him a pussy as he was gonna hand me the rod and then he kept it....). This fish was a little bit bigger and almost spooled the 6/0 on the first run. That fish was about 130lbs (both were released).
Next day was island fishing at San Pedro Island. Most of us had hopes of a big grouper but it wasn't to be. Adi was able to find another small dorado just off the island while the rest of us caught plenty of triggerfish, small grouper, sculpin and a variety of first time catches. That afternoon we packed it up and headed back to port. Ended up back in San Diego at 1:30 on Tuesday morning with a cooler full of dorado, cameras full of pics and a lot of awesome memories.
-Brian