GORDO BANKS PANGAS
September 8th, 2024

We are closely monitoring weather conditions as we are seeing storm development in the Pacific. As of now, it is most likely that we will get a decent amount of rain and 20-30 kt winds for the following weekend, primarily Friday night and Saturday morning. If you are down in the Los Cabos area, please make sure you follow the forecast and take the necessary precautions.

The main highlight this week was more dorado action. Most of the boats going out, were able to catch their dorado limit (2 per license). The bite started towards the end of the week and seems to be spread out across, with most boats fishing Iman, Cardon, Gordo, Punta Gorda, and Palmilla. All these spots have been holding big schools of dorado, though most of them are on the smaller side, averaging around 8-10 pounds. This week, the bait guys were able to net some sardines throughout the shoreline from Palmilla to our marina; this has contributed significantly when finding the schools of dorado. We did see some bigger dorado offshore while targeting marlin on lures and ballyhoo.

Earlier this week, a few wahoo were caught in San Luis and Iman while trolling Rapalas and rigged ballyhoo. A handful of wahoo were also caught offshore with marlin lures. The most popular lure colors for these wahoo seem to be red/orange/green/yellow. Most boats are starting their day closer to Gordo and continue their day trolling towards 1150 and Cabrillo. This week, we had many reports of big schools of small flying fish, though not a lot of activity around them.

The inner Gordo is showing good signs for the upcoming weeks. A few boats reported chumming sardines and strips of skipjacks and seeing dorado, tuna, and wahoo feed on the chum line. A few small tuna were also caught at the Gordo while trying to catch skipjacks for bait. While chumming strips of skippies, dogtooth and yellow snappers were also caught, though it was difficult to fish the bottom on some days due to the currents. This week, one of the local pangeros landed a 354-pound Black Marlin in between the inner and outer Gordo on a live skipjack.

This Saturday, we had some unexpected rain and wind, and most boats decided to fish closer to shore. A couple of our charters focused specifically on Punta Gorda, less than a mile from shore, and it was full of action. One of the boats caught 12 dorado (only kept their limit and released the rest), a couple Sierra, 1 Sailfish and lost a nice wahoo close to the boat.

Good Fishing, Brian