{"id":1417,"date":"2025-04-05T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:24:39","slug":"fishing-first-dorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/fishing-first-dorado\/","title":{"rendered":"[Fishing] First Dorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">I\u2019ve caught a lot of fish while sailing in the Sea of Cortez. However, sailing season in the SOC is generally during the cooler months. I spent the summers working on the boat. Being a warm water fish, I\u2019ve never caught a Dorado until now. I haven\u2019t been fishing much during this trip because the seas have been rough and it\u2019s no fun cleaning a fish on a pitching deck. A week ago, I had a line out, but something bit clean through the steel leader. It was so nice today, I put a line out and caught this perfect-size fish in about 30 minutes. You don\u2019t want to hook a monster that is going to take all your line. Even a medium-sized fish is a hassle because you usually have to stop the boat to land it. However. This little guy was small enough that I just reeled it in. And, it produced two meal-sized fillets \u2026 just right for a single-handed sailer because you don\u2019t want to eat the same fish for three weeks (and I have done that in the past.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?attachment_id=1418\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_0408.jpeg?fit=196%2C300\" alt=\"{CAPTION}\" width=\"196px\" height=\"300px\" style=\"margin: 10px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_0408.jpeg?w=418&amp;ssl=1 418w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_0408.jpeg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?attachment_id=1419\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_0410.jpeg?fit=300%2C217\" alt=\"{CAPTION}\" width=\"300px\" height=\"217px\" style=\"margin: 10px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_0410.jpeg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_0410.jpeg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve caught a lot of fish while sailing in the Sea of Cortez. However, sailing season in the SOC is generally during the cooler months. I spent the summers working on the boat. Being a warm water fish, I\u2019ve never caught a Dorado until now. I haven\u2019t been fishing much during this trip because the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/fishing-first-dorado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;[Fishing] First Dorado&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}