GORDO BANKS PANGAS
May 10th, 2026

Happy Mother’s Day!

Despite seeing ideal weather patterns and temperatures, we are not seeing much foot traffic at our marina. Slow fishing action these past few weeks has not helped the situation either. This was a very similar week compared to the previous one.

The main highlight remains inshore as we continue to see nice size dorado throughout our shorelines, mixed in the same areas where we target Roosters and Jacks. Most of these dorado are in the 18-to-25-pound range, though we have seen a handful close to the 35-pound mark.

For Dorado and Roosters, we are mostly slow trolling live caballito and green jacks throughout the shorelines right in front our marina all the way to Zacaton/Punta Gorda. We are seeing some nice Roosters in the 20-to-30-pound range most days.

While slow trolling these baits, we also had 9 African Pompano this week. One Snook was also caught slow trolling a caballito right next to our marina.

Some boats were able to land a few nice dorado and wahoo covering the grounds of San Luis, Iman, La Fortuna, 25, Cardon, and Punta Gorda on rigged ballyhoo and lures/feathers. Not many tuna were reported this week. On Sunday, a couple boats were able to get live sardines, and it paid off as they found good schools of 20-30 pound tuna at San Luis. One boat landed 6 tuna, and lost another 5 to sharks.

For bait, live caballitos and gren jacks have been consistent. Most mornings, you are able to request as many as you want. However, live sardines are on a day to day basis. We are seeing live sardines 1 or 2 days out of the week. Bags of frozen squid and ballyhoo are also available from the bait guys.

The bottom bite remains slow. We saw more bottom fish with bait this week rather than jigs. Captains covered many rock structures at La Fortuna, 25, Cardon, Zacaton, Punta Gorda, and La Laguna. For bait they used cut up caballitos, green jacks, skipjacks, squid and sardines (if available). We saw good bared pargo and triggerfish numbers, some sierra, and a handful of leopard grouper and yellow snapper.

If interested in targeting marlin, there is also a good chance of hooking into a few offshore. Best action has been seen closer to the 1150 Bank. Many boats tried Inner and Outer Gordo, though they reported the waters to be shark infested.

Good Fishing, Brian