rw wrote:


I have a 7 and a 9wt. I'm not planning to go after marlin. The best I
hope for is a nice Dorado, and that would probably be on the baitcasting
rig.


i assume the pacific dorado behave the same as our atlantic dolphin. if
so, you might want to take your fly rods and some gummy minnow or crazy
charlie type streamers. they are schooling fish, and very aggressive on
the baits. once you hook-up with one, reel it in within fly rod casting
distance, put the rod in a holder and allow it to play. other fish will
follow it, school around it in a feeding frenzy, and strike anything
resembling bait. also, when you spot a good weed line or other floating
"stuff", there are usually some dolphin holding under it that you can
coax to the bait. in nc, we call this style of fishing "bailing
dolphin" and the small dolphin caught as "bailers" or "peanut"
dolphin...the charter boats do it frequently to make the customers happy
with a trip that hasn't produced anything by trolling for the bigger
quarry.

hope you'll post some photos...

jeff