GORDO BANKS PANGAS
October 13th, 2024
We have started our busy season, and fishing has been cooperating so far. We are excited to see what the next couple months hold as we have big crowds and big tournaments coming to town. We can see a big change in weather as well, cooler mornings and early sunsets.
Most of the boats continue to head towards Cabo as they look for more action with the small yellowfin tuna. It seems that this tuna school has spread out more as we are starting to see some at Palmilla Point and Cerro Colorado. This week, we did notice that the tuna bite was a lot more productive in the mornings as the bite died down at around 9:00 am on most days. Most of these yellowfin are small, averaging around 4-5 pounds. Within the same area, there is a chance of landing a couple dorado with live sardines. Many of the boats also landed some white skipjacks and big Pacific Bonito (both great to eat). The bait guys continue to net plenty of sardines along the shorelines of Palmilla. This weekend, the tuna bite was a bit slower than usual, which forced many of the boats to look for wahoo or some bottom action.
The fleet started trolling X-Raps, Nomad DTXs and marlin lures starting from Cabeza de Ballena heading towards Palmilla. Many of the wahoo bites came closer to shore, around 2-3 miles. Most of these wahoo are nice sized, averaging around 25-30 pounds. On Friday, Captain Chame was able to land 4 nice wahoo after catching their tuna limit. Some bigger wahoo were also caught on marlin lures, 8-10 miles offshore from Palmilla, Cerro Colorado, and Chileno while looking for blue and striped marlin. A few of the boats reported seeing some followers as they were gaffing their fish.
A few boats within the fleet started to focus more on bottom action and they were successful. They focused primarily on rock structures around Palmilla Point and Cerro Colorado. This weekend, we saw some quality size amberjack, the biggest one weighing 60 pounds. Most of these bites came on live caballito, with only a few strikes on the jigs. We continue to see dogtooth snapper at the inner Gordo on most days. These snappers can be tricky as the current can be tough on most days. For these fish, we are using big strips of skipjacks.
We will start scouting San Luis, Vinorama, and Iman Banks next week for Wahoo and hopefully bigger yellowfin tuna. We have some reports of Los Barriles boats catching nice wahoo at San Luis and Vinorama.
Good Fishing, Brian
