Whooota what a trip that was! Truly a trip to be remembered. Brian covered all of the important things but I thought I would mention some of the details of the setups that were catching fish. Most of the fish came on the dropper loop with a 6 foot leader to a 4 to 6 oz weight and about a 1 foot loop with a big 5/0 to 7/0 hook. I caught most of my fish on 7/0's. The fish ate 30lb no problem, you probably could have caught them on 50 if you wanted to. I also did really well in the afternoon using a white Tady 4/0 as the weight on the dropper loop. The would eat the squid up above, no the jig but it seemed like the jig attracted them to the bait for some reason. That setup caught me 5 in the afternoon when the bite was pickier than in the morning. There were a lot of missed bites, I missed quite a few myself, but the best thing was to fish the reel in gear and when you got bit just slowly lower the tip until the fish loaded it up good than start winding into it and give a short sharp hookset. Then wind wind wind. Guys who missed the most fish were swinging on the first bite or making a big hookset.
My arms hurt!