GORDO BANKS PANGAS
June 29th, 2025

Wind conditions were favorable for us this week. Our boats were able to fish different rock structures in the area of San Luis. Many of the boats reported an early morning bite. The best action came within the first hour or two on jigs. Most of our boats caught plenty of red snapper, amberjack, and a handful of grouper. Some of the big amberjack came on live caballito.

After catching enough for dinner, most boats went closer inshore to try for a big rooster. 3 of the boats reported landing roosters in the 50–60-pound range. The others were also nice size (20-30 pounds). On Wednesday, one of our pangas caught 1 amberjack, 6 red snapper, 1 grouper, and release 7 roosters (1 pushing 60 pounds).

Not much to report offshore as most of our boats focused on the bottom and inshore. The cruisers that trolled offshore did not report much as we only saw a couple of dorado and marlin. One blue marlin, averaging 200 pounds was caught as well. No wahoo or tuna were brought to the fillet table this week.

This week, we saw big schools of caballito and mullet enter our marina. We also had big schools of baby sardines in the mix. We are hoping that our bait situation continues to improve as sardines are a must to efficiently target tuna later this year.

We are closing monitoring a storm on the Pacific that could strengthen to a Category 1 Hurricane by Wednesday. As of now, it seems that it will not be a direct hit, though we are expecting some rain on Wednesday and Thursday. We are expecting the port to close down these 2 days.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
June 22nd, 2025

Wind conditions this week were brutal as it affected the number of charters going out. For most of the week, we had S/SW winds averaging 12-20 mph. Earlier in the week, we got away by fishing closer to shore and a few miles from our marina (5-7 miles) before the wind kicked in around 11/noon. Friday through Sunday were the worst days. We only had one charter go out on Friday and we were forced to cancel our weekend trips. Live bait was a struggle as well; most boats were only able to get 3-5 baits (mix of caballitos and mullet) most mornings.

If you were lucky enough to get ahold of live bait, you were able to efficiently look for Roosters and dorado/marlin a few miles out. Roosterfish action seemed slower this week, though it was hard to tell if that was really the case as not many boats tried for Roosters due to the lack of bait. On Thursday, one of our pangas got ahold of 8 mullet and they were able to land 7 Roosters early in the morning, including one 30 pounder.

Some boats stuck it out battling the wind anywhere from 5-7 miles from our marina looking for marlin and dorado. Not many dorado were reported this week, only a handful of small to medium ones. We did not see any big bulls as we did last week. Many marlin were spotted though most captains reported minimal interest. Our fleet did catch and release 4 striped marlin and 1 sailfish this week.

One of the local pangas tried bottom jigging in San Luis on Friday and they were able to land 1 amberjack, 1 grouper, and 5 red snapper. The wind did not allow them to fish long as they had to head in around 9 am. This next week, we do see some better days in the forecast; we are hoping to target more bottom structures throughout the areas of Vinorama and San Luis.

This Sunday, we had a local dorado tournament in memory of Eric Brictson. Eric was one of the sportfishing pioneers in our community of La Playa as he established his operation in 1985 launching small pangas off the beach. Unfortunately, due to wind conditions not many boats participated in the tournament. Only 10 brave boats got out there. As expected, live bait was an issue and fishing was very slow. Only one 15 pound dorado came to the scales, winning the tournament across the board.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
June 15th, 2025

This was a slow week at our marina in terms of charters and fish brough to the fillet tables.

Caballito supply was down significantly as compared to the previous weeks. Bait guys were able to net more mullet than caballito this week, which works just as good for Roosterfish. Rooster action continues to be good, though it is hard to specifically focus on this type of fishing due to the low bait supply some days. Hot areas for Rooster action has been throughout the Hotel Zone shoreline (Trailer Park), La Bocana, and La Laguna. We did see bigger Roosters throughout the shoreline of San Luis, some of them in the 40–50-pound range.

Most boats focused inshore this week for the first few hours of the morning and then headed offshore to look for a marlin, dorado, or wahoo. Not much action was reported throughout the week. This weekend was much better as most boats hooked into multiple marlin. We also saw a handful of big dorado (30-45 pounds) and a couple of big wahoo. Most of these strikes came on rigged ballyhoo and marlin lures. We covered areas from both Gordos, Calderon, and 1150 Bank. Many boats reported spotting some big dorados in schools, though they wouldn’t bite on lures or ballyhoo; these boats did not have live caballitos to pitch to them.

Not much bottom action to report this week. One of our boats specifically tried 10-12 different rock piles and reefs on Friday (with 4 anglers) and reported zero strikes (fishing both jigs and live bait).

Good Fishing, Brian