GORDO BANKS PANGAS
February 15th, 2026

We are seeing large crowds of anglers and their families arrive to the Los Cabos area for President’s week. 

This week, we focused more on the area of Iman and Vinroama. Earlier in the week, we were seeing good tuna numbers; most strikes coming on live sardines, some on live caballito or strips of squid. These tuna are small to medium size, ranging anywhere from 5 to 60 pounds. Some days, the bite came later in the morning, closer to noon. A few local pangeros did good on afternoon trips. 

Within the same area, we saw a lot of white skippies and white bonita as well. On Tuesday, one boat at Vinorama had 8 small tuna, 10+ bonita, 10+ skipjack, 1 amberjack, 1 grouper, 1 snapper, and 3 nice dorado, good eating bag! The dorado came on live sardines and caballito, the rest of the species on jigs (even the tuna!). This Vinorama bite slowed down throughout the end of the week as we experienced a windy Saturday that mixed up and cooled the water in some areas. Sunday was even slower for tuna; most boats had to look for bottom or inshore action. We did see more snapper, grouper, and amberjack this Sunday.

The dorado bite has been slower this week as well. Most of the dorado caught came while drifting or slow trolling bait for tuna.

The sardine supply was decent this week, though some days we were waiting 30 minutes to an hour to get some dines. The highlight was bigger size sardines in the mix (we hadn’t seen them this size in over 6 months). The sardines are netted in front of Secrets and Marriott Hotels. The bait guys have also been netting caballito within the dock areas inside the marina.

Not much action to report at the Inner and Outer Gordos. Many boats did put in full days, though were not successful. Only a handful of boats landed nice size tuna (50 to 80 pounds) and striped marlin.

The bottom bite was slow for most part of the week; we started to see more action towards the weekend. We are most likely going to be focusing on bottom structures starting next week. Many boats covered different rock structures at Vinorama, San Luis, Iman, La Fortuna, 25, and Cardon. We did see a handful of nice amberjack, snapper, grouper, and 1 yellowtail.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
February 8th, 2026

We continue to see good production throughout fishing grounds closer to shore and Inner/Outer Gordos.

The dorado bite has been good most days as most boats are able to land their limits (2 per license). For dorado, boats are covering the grounds from Iman to Punta Gorda with rigged ballyhoo, lures/feathers, and caballitos. Best overall action came from 25 and Cardon. Towards the end of the week, a few boats found good tuna schools at Cardon on live sardines. Most of these tuna were small to medium size, ranging anywhere from 5 to 45 pounds. A handful of these tuna were also hooked on Rapalas while looking for a wahoo strike. Only one wahoo was brought in this week, hooked on a rigged ballyhoo. A couple of boats did report getting a few other wahoo strikes, though they were not able to land them. White bonita made a presence while covering ground on Rapalas and bottom structure with jigs. Some snapper, grouper, and amberjack were also picked up while jigging, though we are still not seeing good numbers, only a handful of bottom fish a day.

We had live sardines all week, though the supply has been low; the sardines are netted in front of Secrets and Marriott Hotels. Caballito supply has been much better. Bait guys have been netting caballito within the dock areas inside the marina.

The tuna bite at Inner and Outer Gordos has been spotty most days, though we are seeing quality fish from these areas every day. If you put in the time, and have plenty of bait to chum with, it has paid off. On Thursday, one of the pangas landed 4 tuna, one of them weighing 112 pounds, the other 3 averaging 45 to 50 pounds. These tuna have been hooked on live bulito, strips of squid or skipjack, sardines, and caballito; we are seeing most hook ups on strips of squid. Within this area, we also saw some big bulls and a handful of striped marlin.

Good Fishing, Brian

GORDO BANKS PANGAS
February 1^st, 2026

We are now seeing light crowds of anglers/tourists in the Los Cabos area; it starts picking up towards mid-February when kids get a week break for President’s week.

The week started off slowly as we experienced greenish/colder water left behind by the previous weekend. On Tuesday/Wednesday, we started to hear reports that the water was looking much better (less green) and temperature was a bit warmer in the low 70s as compared to high 60s from last weekend. This made a significant difference as we started to see more action, both at the Gordo (Inner and Outer) and throughout fishing grounds closer to shore.

Best dorado action came from La Fortuna and 25. Most of these dorado were decent size, averaging 12-20 pounds. We had many dorado in the 25-to-30-pound range as well. Most of the dorado were caught slow trolling live caballito or fast trolling rigged ballyhoo. A handful were also picked up on smaller feathers, lures, and Rapalas. Even though the dorado bite was not wide open, some boats were able to land their limits. We did not hear of any wahoo being caught this week. While slow trolling caballito, we also saw a handful of small/medium size (15 to 50 pound) yellowfin tuna, though only one or two every day.

Many boats have started focusing on bottom structure. Even though numbers are not great, we did see some nice grouper, snapper, and amberjack that were caught on jigs. Within this mix, we also had a California Sheephead. White bonita are also starting to make a presence while jigging.

Inner and Outer Gordos were hit or miss for most of the week. While many boats focused their time in these areas, only a handful of boats each day were the lucky ones. Medium size (40-60) pound tuna were caught mostly on dead sardines, some on live. While drifting live and dead sardines, a few dorado were also picked up. Bigger tuna in the 90-to-130-pound range where also caught while drifting strips of squid. Two tuna in the 150–170-pound range were caught on live bulito. Bulito were hard to find this week.

Good Fishing, Brian