GORDO BANKS PANGAS
July 28th, 2024

Slow tourist activity at our marina this week. Tourist activity seems to be on the decline as we head into our extreme heat and hurricane season. We are starting to see some great signs that the fishing could turn over any second now.

Bait supplies remain the same with live caballito, mullet, sardines, and ballyhoo. The best action right now would be to look for a striped Marlin and a few dorado for dinner. Marlin continue to bite throughout a wide area. Many of the boats are starting their day at the inner Gordo and trolling the surrounding areas as they look for surface activity. Most of the action is coming 12-20 miles from our marina. A few smaller Blues continue to be hooked as well, though nothing over the 200-pound mark yet.

The best chance to hook into a wahoo would be offshore while looking for marlin. Most strikes are coming on marlin lures or rigged ballyhoo. We didn’t see many wahoo caught this week, though we did hear of many hookups on the marlin lures that were lost due to no wire leader. All the wahoo that were caught were nice sized, most of them over 30 pounds.

We are starting to see great signs at Iman Bank. Water is clearing up and there’s lots of bait on the surface. Many boats reported seeing big schools of bulito and small skipjacks. Anglers that spent their day at Iman reported seeing a few nice schools of dorado. Even though most of them are on the smaller side, we did see a handful of fish over 25 pounds. Within the same Iman area, there is a chance of hooking into a striped Marlin as well. A few anglers were also able to pick something up from the bottom, mostly grouper and amberjack. Not a lot of bottom action this week as the current has not been favorable for that type of fishing.

Local pangeros continue to look for the schools of porpoise to find the yellowfin. Less schools of porpoise were spotted this week, though the ones that found them were able to catch big loads of fish, most of them averaging 20-25 pounds, with an accessional 60+ pounder in the mix. The schools of porpoise remain consistent at 35-45 miles out every day,

We are still catching nice roosters and jacks throughout our shoreline. A few of the bigger Sierras were also landed while trolling live caballito and mullet for Roosters.

Good Fishing, Brian