GORDO BANKS PANGAS
September 29th, 2024

We are now starting to see more tourist activity in our area as we head into our busy October/November season. Mornings at the marina are starting to feel a bit cooler averaging around 76-77 degrees. Temperature throughout the day is slightly down, averaging high 80s/low 90s.

The main highlight this week was the yellowfin tuna bite towards San Luis and Iman. We are seeing warm water in the 86-87 range throughout these high spots. Most of these yellowfin are juvenile, averaging around 4-5 pounds, though we have seen a few nicer ones 20-40 pounds landed in the same area. We are trying to release as many of the smaller ones as we can. We are using live and dead sardines. Most boats are catching their tuna limits every day. It would be nice to fight these fish with super light tackle, though it is almost impossible due to shark activity. We are also catching plenty of skipjacks within the same school. This week, we saw a lot more white skipjacks, which are great to eat. These were a bit bigger than the yellowfin. Within the same area, most of the boats were able to land a few dorado per day while fast trolling ballyhoo. A handful of nice wahoo were also landed on Rapalas this weekend.

A few of the local guys scouted out different rock structures at San Luis and Iman. They were able to land some nice dogtooth snapper on strips of skipjacks. A big broomtail grouper was also landed at Iman on a live skipjack.

We had a good blue/striped marlin bite towards 1150 Bank this week. Most of these bites came on the smaller lures or rigged ballyhoo. Most of the Blue marlin hooked were under 200 pounds, though there were a couple in the 300–400-pound range. There are still reports of a couple big Black marlin hooked at the Inner and Outer Gordos on live skipjacks. We have a couple boats specifically trying for Black marlin next week.

Happy Birthday to Eric Brictson; you are greatly missed every day!

Good Fishing, Brian