GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Report from July 13th to the 22nd

As we progress into peak summer season, we start to see lighter crowds of tourists arriving. Local weather in the Los Cabos area is feeling more tropical and humid. We are also starting to see storm development throughout the Pacific. We will keep a close eye on this as the forecast is significantly changing daily, though it seems we are expecting bad weather on the 29th.

Fishing remains challenging as options are limited. We keep seeing the best action offshore, though it can be hit or miss as we are not finding porpoise schools every day and not all schools are holding tuna, or some days they just don’t want to bite. We did see nice size tuna offshore, most action coming around 25-30 miles. Most of the tuna caught were in the 40 to 130 pound range. A couple boats reported losing big ones after long battles. One of the pangas lost one close to the boat after 4 hours last weekend; the captain estimated this fish around the 250-pound range. The bigger tuna were caught on live caballito or small skipjacks/bulito. Most of these smaller tuna came on poppers.

While looking for surface activity offshore, some boats were able to land big dorado and medium-size wahoo on rigged ballyhoo and lures, though numbers were not great. One boat reported a 56-pound bull a couple days ago.

Better numbers of blue marlin came in this week. On average, we were hearing reports of 3-4 blues a day between our panga dock area. Most of these marlin are small to medium size, in the range of 120 to 360 pounds, also caught on lures and ballyhoo.

Closer to shore, throughout the areas of Vinorama, San Luis, and Iman, we saw more production as compared to previous weeks where we couldn’t fish those grounds due to shark activity. We are still dealing with sharks, though we are seeing less every day. We are hoping these waters clear out within the next weeks. While trolling X-Raps and ballyhoo, a handful of lucky boats were able to land wahoo and dorado. Again, these numbers were not great as you were lucky to get one or two strikes on a morning outing. A handful of small yellowfin were also caught on the Rápalas.

Bottom fishing also remains on the slower end. The best area for bottom opportunities at this time seems to be Inner Gordo. We saw a few small to medium size dogtooth snapper on chunks of bulito and skipjack. Not much action to report on the jigs, other than skipjack.

Throughout the shorelines of San Luis, we continue to see medium/big size Roosters (30-50 lbs.), though numbers seem to be decreasing. While trolling live baits (caballito and green jacks) throughout the shorelines of San Luis, there is also a chance of a dogtooth snapper or grouper. Throughout the shorelines next to our marina and the hotel zone, we are also seeing decent Rooster numbers, though they are smaller, most of them in the 8-to-20-pound range.

Good Fishing, Brian 

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
July 12th, 2026

Decent tourist activity in the area as reports show large crowds at local International Airport, though fishing fleets have only been moderately busy. Weather patterns were stable this week, scattered cloud cover, highs in the upper 80s to low 90 degrees, and variable winds most days, being predominate later in the day from the south. 

With water temperatures now in the 83-84 degrees and higher (some areas of 85-86), conditions are ripe for tropical storm development. We will most likely start to see storm developments in the Pacific over the next few weeks. We will be following the forecast closely these next couple of months. We are expecting light showers next week.

Most action continues to show offshore as we look for the right water conditions and surface activity (birds, bait, and porpoise schools). Porpoise sighting and tuna action offshore did appear to be slower this week as compared to the previous 2 weeks. Not all boats that focused offshore were able to find these porpoise schools as reports indicated they were farther out most days. These boats trolled lures and ballyhoo, covering grounds from 1150 Bank, Cabrillo, and its surrounding areas. A handful of these boats were lucky to land a nice size dorado or wahoo. The boats that did find porpoise schools reported quality size tuna on poppers, lures, and live caballito. One of the boats landed a 155-pound tuna on a popper. We continue to see small to medium size (180 to 300 pounds) blue marlin while trolling lures offshore. We also saw a handful of striped marlin and sailfish in the mix.

Roosterfish action is still available and decent most mornings, though it seems to be tapering off, as it normally does as we head into mid to end of July. We are still seeing an occasional late season sierra in the mix. While trolling live baits (caballito and green jacks) through different shorelines and rock structures, we have seen a handful of pargo colorado and dogtooth snapper. Most of these snapper and the bigger roosters continue to show towards San Luis and Punta Gorda/Zacatitos areas.

Not much action to report on our high sports from Vinorama to Cardon. Still seeing plenty of shark schools in the area. Dorado and wahoo in these areas were both very scarce; we did see a handful of dorado and wahoo on ballyhoo and Rapalas, though these were few and far between, smaller sized juvenile fish.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
July 5th, 2026

Productivity and good action continue to show offshore, which makes it the best option if you are after tuna, wahoo, dorado, and marlin. Many boats tried our high spots from Vinorama to Iman, though there was not much to report as we continue to see shark infested waters most days. While covering these grounds with Rapalas and Ballyhoo, some lucky boats were able to land one or two wahoo in a morning outing. These wahoo were small to medium size, most of them in the 18-to-25-pound range.

We also saw a handful of medium size dorado in the mix. The boats that tried for wahoo throughout these grounds, then finished off the day targeting Roosterfish inshore. Roosterfish action continues to be decent throughout the shorelines next to our marina and La Laguna/ Punta Gorda/ Zacatitos areas. A good area has also been the Hotel corridor, especially the trailer park area (in front of Honda Dealership). Surprisingly, we haven’t seen many Roosters in the 50+ range as we did last year. The bigger size Roosters (30+) continue to show at the shorelines of San Luis.

We did not see many of the bigger 100+ tuna this week, though we did see more consistency on the medium 40 to 80 pounders.

Most of these tuna were caught offshore while looking for porpoise schools. Many of these tuna were caught on poppers. On most days, we start to see some action around the 20 to 25 mile mark. The 1150 Bank continues to be one of the most productive areas as we are also seeing an occasional big dorado and wahoo while trolling lures and ballyhoo. On Tuesday, one boat reported loosing a couple nice wahoo to sharks out there, though it appears that not many other boats had issues with sharks this day. This boat landed 1 nice wahoo and lost 4 others (2 to sharks). They hooked these wahoo on marlin lures and ballyhoo.

Blue marlin in the 200-to-300-pound range continue to make a presence as we hear reports of a handful hooked every day.

Not much bottom action to report at this time. One of the pangas landed a handful of small snapper and grouper earlier in the week throughout rock structures at Cardon and La Fortuna (close to shore). These fish were caught on cut up caballito/green jacks.

Good Fishing, Brian