GORDO BANKS PANGAS
January 5th, 2025

The new year started off very slow. We continue to see a good number of anglers in our marina; however, the fishing is not cooperating much.

The best chance at a decent bag was looking for dorado at the inner and outer Gordos. The dorado bite was slow throughout most of the week. The best day seemed to be Saturday as a few boats were able to catch their dorado limit. Most of the dorado caught were nice sized, with the majority in the range of 15-25 pounds. We did see some big Bulls over 30 pounds as well. The bait guys were able to net some small caballito on some mornings and these came in handy if available. The dorado were caught slow trolling live skipjacks, bulito, caballito, and ballyhoo.  While trolling these baits, a few boats were also able to land striped marlin and wahoo, though there were not many caught. Some boats drifted strips of squid on the main high spot and were lucky to catch a couple of yellow and bared snappers.

Due to the bite slowing down at the Gordo, many boats tried San Luis, Iman, La Fortuna, 25, and Cerro for dorado, but many of them came in empty handed.

This Sunday, a few of our captains decided to scout out the area of San Luis. They mostly tried drifting strips of squid, skipjack, and jigging. They had a white bonita bite on the jigs, which helped clients pack up a small cooler with good eating fish. One nice 30-pound broomtail grouper was caught at San Luis this Sunday while drifting to the bottom with a live skipjack. Two other captains reported losing big fish that cut off on the rock structure.

The sardine supply remains low. If sardines are available, there is a great chance of catching some nice sierra throughout the shorelines of Palmilla and Cerro Colorado. One boat tried this on Friday for a couple of hours and were able to land 9 decent size sierra and one small dorado, all on sardines,

Good Fishing, Brian