GORDO BANKS PANGAS
September 7th, 2025
We did not get much of a chance to efficiently fish this week due to Hurricane Lorena’s pathway leaving 3-4 days of heavy rain in our area; much needed rain. It is no surprise that Los Cabos infrastructure cannot handle these rains. Drainage systems are not built for flows of water coming from storms and Hurricanes. That said, most of our neighborhoods and streets were severely damaged as many of them are not paved yet. They have worked hard to clean up this mess in the last 3 days and it has made a great impact. Surprisingly, we did not lose our power throughout these rains, only our water for 3 days. We are seeing another storm possibly develop out in the Pacific at this time; we are hoping it opens up and heads west.
This week, we only fished Monday, Saturday, and Sunday. A few boats tried fishing on Tuesday, though conditions were rough as wind started picking up early in the morning and we started getting the first showers around 11:00 am.
Saturday and Sunday were challenging as we did not have any live bait available at the marina. Bait guys tried, though the water was very dirty and full of debris. We had to resort to frozen squid, skipjacks that we caught out on the grounds, jigs, and lures.
We only had a couple charters this weekend. On Saturday, we had a handful of nice groupers, one snapper, and one tuna, all at Iman Bank. These groupers all came on strips of skipjack, including the snapper. One small tuna was caught on squid. That same day, 3 big tuna were reported in the same area on squid. Biggest tuna was around 140 lbs., the other 2 were around 100-110.
On Sunday, bottom action at Iman was much slower. The boat that tried at Iman only had one yellow snapper on squid. They had one 20-pound tuna on a jig, and a handful of triggerfish. They also had a big 45–50-pound Rooster that hit on a chunk of skipjack, they initially thought it was a grouper as it hit towards the bottom. Other boats tried the inner Gordo for marlin and tuna, though there was not much action. One of our boats did land 1 nice amberjack, 1 small tuna, and 4 groupers (star-studded) at the Inner Gordo.
Good Fishing, Brian
