GORDO BANKS PANGAS
April 6th, 2025

Despite wind conditions limiting offshore fishing for marlin, the Gordo Banks Pangas fleet reported successful fishing action closer to shore. The bigger boats that went offshore, focused on the 1150 Bank. They did report seeing many marlin on the surface, though they wouldn’t bite much. One big wahoo, 69.8 pounds was caught at the 1150 Bank while looking for marlin on a rigged ballyhoo.

We had plenty of action at Palmilla Point, Cerro Colorado, and The Westin. On most days, our boats were able to limit on Sierra (Spanish Mackerel). This week, we had a school of quality size Sierras come in as compared to previous weeks where they were running small (2-3 pounds). Most of them were averaging 5-7 pounds, and a handful of them closer to 10 pounds. Fun to fish for these fish with light tackle. We are drifting dead sardines for these Sierras as we continue to see a low supply of live sardines. While drifting dead sardines, we also saw a handful of small yellowtail, snapper, grouper, and triggerfish. A few boats also tried jigging in 120-140 ft of water at Palmilla point. Not a lot of action on the jigs, though we did see a few nice amberjack, grouper, and white bonita.

A few boats were able to get live caballitos and they paid off by trolling them throughout our shoreline for Roosterfish. On Saturday, one of the boats had 8 caballitos and were able to catch and release 7 Roosters within a couple of hours. Most of these Roosters are averaging around 15 pounds, though we are starting to see some nicer ones in the mix, around 30 pounds.

Earlier in the week, when the wind conditions were better, a few boats were able to land quality bottom fish on the jigs throughout different rock structures at Vinorama and San Luis. We saw a good bag of amberjack, red snapper, grouper, and a couple of nice yellowtail. No tuna were reported this week.

Good Fishing, Brian