GORDO BANKS PANGAS
December 7th, 2025
We are starting to experience some windy days as we usually see throughout these colder months. For most part of the week, we had scattered clouds and light showers throughout the area of Los Cabos. On Friday, it rained most of the day. Other than our clients getting very wet, it did not affect our day much as our fleet did great, good tuna and dorado numbers.
This was our most productive dorado week of the year. Throughout most of our fishing grounds we saw good numbers and size for dorado. Most of these dorado were averaging 15-20 pounds, though we did see a handful of 25-30 pounders. The most productive grounds were La Fortuna, Cardón, and Punta Gorda close to shore. These dorado came on small lures/feathers, Rápalas, rigged ballyhoo, and live/dead chiwilis. Some of these dorado schools were found as close as Secrets and Marriot Hotels, less than 1/4 of a mile from shore.
Live bait continues to be a challenge. Most bait guys are focusing on selling bags of dead sardines, squid, and ballyhoo as live sardines and caballito have been hard to find. A couple of bait guys reported small schools of sardines in front of the lighthouse close to us, though only enough to supply 2 or 3 boats a day. We believe it is not worth waiting for a chance at live sardines as you might not get any, or if you do, we are waiting until 8:00 am or so. For dead sardines, the bait guys have been driving towards La Ribera to net them.
We continue to see a spotty yellowfin tuna bite at Iman, La Fortuna, and Punta Gorda. Hard to bring them up to the surface without live bait, though some days we are doing good with dead sardines and squid. The tuna in these grounds are on the smaller side, 5-10 pounds, though we did see a handful of fish in the 20-40 pound class. We are seeing quality size tuna at the Inner Gordo most days. This bite can be hit or miss; many of the boats that tried were not able to land any, other lucky boats landed up to 4 in one day. These tuna were on average 45 to 70 pounds. Many boats reported seeing big tuna (100-250 pounds) feed at the Outer Gordo, though they would not bite. Only one big tuna, around 200 pounds was caught this week on a live bulito at the Outer Gordo. This boat landed this fish in 10 minutes as it hit on 2 lines at the same time and died almost instantly.
Earlier in the week, we had a good wahoo bite at Iman, La Fortuna, and Cardon. On Monday-Tuesday, some of the boats were able to land 3-4 each day. The bite remained very spotty throughout the rest of the week. Earlier in the week, the wahoo bite was better on live chiwilis and rigged ballyhoo. Later in the week, we noticed better action early in the morning on X-Raps and Nomad DTXs.
Good Fishing, Brian
