We crossed at Mexicali and drove down through San Felipe and Portocitos. The pavement ends a little ways south of Portocitos and its dirt until you get to the LA bay road that cuts off from the 1. Its a dirt road, but I thinkva car could make it if you were not in any hurry. We were in a big diesel 4x4 dodge duely so no problemas. I gotta say thats its difficult to drive passed Las Islas Encontadas and Gonzaga with out stopping.
As for the fish; Goldspots are in the same genus as calicos, sandbass, and spotted bass. They are a deeper water fish and we caught ours beow a hundred feet.
http://www.mexfish.com/fish/gspotbas/gspotbas.htm
Pintos are in the grouper family and get much bigger and often arefound in shallow water.
http://www.mexfish.com/fish/sptcab/sptcab.htm
Mike