GORDO BANKS PANGAS
May 19th, 2024

The yellowfin tuna bite picked up again! Compared to the beginning of the month, our marina’s foot traffic has increased significantly, and we now have a full schedule for the remainder of the month. These big tunas tend to attract many of the locals and tourists as the word spreads fast. We are now starting to feel great heat throughout the days as we are seeing temperatures in the low 90s creep in.

The tuna bite was consistent throughout most of the week. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were the best days as we saw many fish in the 100–150-pound club. The biggest tuna caught this week was just shy of 200 pounds. This fish was hooked on 50# test, taking the team almost 3 hours to land. Most of the tuna action is coming from live and dead sardines at Iman and San Luis Banks. A few tuna have been hooked on strips of squid.

Many of our captains reported seeing more wahoo activity. One of the boats within the fleet had 5 strikes on Wednesday at Iman Bank while trolling Rapalas first thing in the morning. They only managed to land one. Some other boats reported a few hookups at Vinorama.

We continue to see a good variety of bottom fish from different rock structures at Cardon. Mostly using sardines, we have been able to catch yellow snapper, grouper, amberjack, sierra, and African pompano. A few grouper and amberjack were landed on jigs as well. The handful of dorado that we caught this week, came from inshore while fishing for Roosterfish. Small schools of dorado have been spotted closer to shore, most of them averaging around 10-12 pounds.

Bigger Roosterfish have been spotted throughout our shorelines as we are starting to see more mullet. Most of these fish are averaging 15-20 pounds, though we have seen a few over 30-40 pounds.

Good Fishing, Brian