GORDO BANKS PANGAS
July 23rd to the 26th, 2026

The port captain/authority announced this morning that the port will close down tonight (Sunday) at 10:00 pm. We are hoping that the port reopens sometime on Tuesday; we are still not sure if we will be able to fish on Tuesday. As of now, Hurricane Genevieve is sitting at approximately 520 miles southwest of Los Cabos at a category 3 status. It is expected to increase its strength to a category 4 by tomorrow Monday morning. This hurricane is expected to continue its path towards the west, not affecting our area much. We are expecting some swell, wind, and minimal rain (if any). 

From mid to end of week, options were limited. As expected, most boats focused their efforts offshore looking for birds, bait, and porpoise schools. On Saturday, a few boats found porpoise schools only 2 miles to the South of the Outer Gordo. Only 3 boats out of 5 that were fishing this school were able to land tuna as they were finicky. Captains reported these tuna just killing the bait (caballitos) and not coming back for it. Most of the tuna in this school were in the 50-70 pound range. One lucky boat was able to land 3 within this school.

This Sunday, porpoise schools were found farther out towards the 1150. Again, the tuna were not as active; one of the pangas only landed 1 tuna at the 30 mile mark; the other panga also landed 1 at the 38 mile mark. Both tuna were around 60 pounds. This is a long run on the pangas for this “hit or miss” type of fishing.

While looking for porpoise schools, we did see decent blue marlin numbers on lures and rigged ballyhoo, most of these fish under 300 lbs. Some lucky boats came across some dorado and wahoo, though only a handful made it to the fillet tables.

Options towards Vinorama, San Luis, and Iman remain limited. Not many boats focused their efforts throughout these grounds as we still continue to have issues with sharks. One boat reported seeing good tuna boils at San Luis on Friday and hooking 1 off the bat; unfortunately, the sharks got to it right away and remained in the area all morning.

There is a chance of hooking into a nice dorado or wahoo while trolling ballyhoo and Rápalas from Vinorama all the way to Cardon, though numbers haven’t been great either.

We continue to see decent Roosterfish action throughout the hotel corridors shorelines and Punta Gorda/Zacatitos/ La Laguna.

Good Fishing, Brian

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