GORDO BANKS PANGAS
February 8th, 2026

We continue to see good production throughout fishing grounds closer to shore and Inner/Outer Gordos.

The dorado bite has been good most days as most boats are able to land their limits (2 per license). For dorado, boats are covering the grounds from Iman to Punta Gorda with rigged ballyhoo, lures/feathers, and caballitos. Best overall action came from 25 and Cardon. Towards the end of the week, a few boats found good tuna schools at Cardon on live sardines. Most of these tuna were small to medium size, ranging anywhere from 5 to 45 pounds. A handful of these tuna were also hooked on Rapalas while looking for a wahoo strike. Only one wahoo was brought in this week, hooked on a rigged ballyhoo. A couple of boats did report getting a few other wahoo strikes, though they were not able to land them. White bonita made a presence while covering ground on Rapalas and bottom structure with jigs. Some snapper, grouper, and amberjack were also picked up while jigging, though we are still not seeing good numbers, only a handful of bottom fish a day.

We had live sardines all week, though the supply has been low; the sardines are netted in front of Secrets and Marriott Hotels. Caballito supply has been much better. Bait guys have been netting caballito within the dock areas inside the marina.

The tuna bite at Inner and Outer Gordos has been spotty most days, though we are seeing quality fish from these areas every day. If you put in the time, and have plenty of bait to chum with, it has paid off. On Thursday, one of the pangas landed 4 tuna, one of them weighing 112 pounds, the other 3 averaging 45 to 50 pounds. These tuna have been hooked on live bulito, strips of squid or skipjack, sardines, and caballito; we are seeing most hook ups on strips of squid. Within this area, we also saw some big bulls and a handful of striped marlin.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
February 1^st, 2026

We are now seeing light crowds of anglers/tourists in the Los Cabos area; it starts picking up towards mid-February when kids get a week break for President’s week.

The week started off slowly as we experienced greenish/colder water left behind by the previous weekend. On Tuesday/Wednesday, we started to hear reports that the water was looking much better (less green) and temperature was a bit warmer in the low 70s as compared to high 60s from last weekend. This made a significant difference as we started to see more action, both at the Gordo (Inner and Outer) and throughout fishing grounds closer to shore.

Best dorado action came from La Fortuna and 25. Most of these dorado were decent size, averaging 12-20 pounds. We had many dorado in the 25-to-30-pound range as well. Most of the dorado were caught slow trolling live caballito or fast trolling rigged ballyhoo. A handful were also picked up on smaller feathers, lures, and Rapalas. Even though the dorado bite was not wide open, some boats were able to land their limits. We did not hear of any wahoo being caught this week. While slow trolling caballito, we also saw a handful of small/medium size (15 to 50 pound) yellowfin tuna, though only one or two every day.

Many boats have started focusing on bottom structure. Even though numbers are not great, we did see some nice grouper, snapper, and amberjack that were caught on jigs. Within this mix, we also had a California Sheephead. White bonita are also starting to make a presence while jigging.

Inner and Outer Gordos were hit or miss for most of the week. While many boats focused their time in these areas, only a handful of boats each day were the lucky ones. Medium size (40-60) pound tuna were caught mostly on dead sardines, some on live. While drifting live and dead sardines, a few dorado were also picked up. Bigger tuna in the 90-to-130-pound range where also caught while drifting strips of squid. Two tuna in the 150–170-pound range were caught on live bulito. Bulito were hard to find this week.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
January 25^th, 2026

The week started off good with decent action at the Inner and Outer Gordo. We saw more tuna action in the 40-to-70-pound range.  These tuna were hooked on live bulito, small skipjack, chiwili, strips of squid, and some on live sardines. We also saw a handful of tuna in the 100-to-170-pound range within the same areas and bait. While slow trolling these baits, some nice 20-to-30-pound dorado were also caught. On Thursday, one of our pangas landed 5 yellowfin and 2 dorado. Two of these tuna were 165 and 155 pounds; the other 3 were 50 to 70 pounds, and the 2 dorado were averaging 25 pounds each. Some boats did not do so well as you really need to have patience if you are trolling baits at Gordo. After a few hours of trolling at the Gordo with no strikes, many boats decided to come in closer to shore to secure dinner with a dorado or two.

Through the fishing grounds of Iman, La Fortuna, Cardon, 25, and Punta Gorda we are seeing nice sized dorado. For bait, we are using live caballito, sardines, and ballyhoo. Some of them were also hooked on lures and feathers.

Water conditions have taken a turn after Saturday’s South wind. The port closed on Saturday due to 15-20 mph South winds and morning showers. This Sunday, as expected, fishing was much slower throughout all fishing grounds as water was colder and green. Many captains reported temperatures in the mid to high 60s and dirty water. This Sunday, only 3 medium size tuna and a couple of dorado were caught at the Gordo between 15 pangas or so. We had more action closer to shore, where boats found smaller tuna and dorado on live sardines and caballito.

Good Fishing, Brian