GORDO BANKS PANGAS
July 12th, 2026
Decent tourist activity in the area as reports show large crowds at local International Airport, though fishing fleets have only been moderately busy. Weather patterns were stable this week, scattered cloud cover, highs in the upper 80s to low 90 degrees, and variable winds most days, being predominate later in the day from the south.
With water temperatures now in the 83-84 degrees and higher (some areas of 85-86), conditions are ripe for tropical storm development. We will most likely start to see storm developments in the Pacific over the next few weeks. We will be following the forecast closely these next couple of months. We are expecting light showers next week.
Most action continues to show offshore as we look for the right water conditions and surface activity (birds, bait, and porpoise schools). Porpoise sighting and tuna action offshore did appear to be slower this week as compared to the previous 2 weeks. Not all boats that focused offshore were able to find these porpoise schools as reports indicated they were farther out most days. These boats trolled lures and ballyhoo, covering grounds from 1150 Bank, Cabrillo, and its surrounding areas. A handful of these boats were lucky to land a nice size dorado or wahoo. The boats that did find porpoise schools reported quality size tuna on poppers, lures, and live caballito. One of the boats landed a 155-pound tuna on a popper. We continue to see small to medium size (180 to 300 pounds) blue marlin while trolling lures offshore. We also saw a handful of striped marlin and sailfish in the mix.
Roosterfish action is still available and decent most mornings, though it seems to be tapering off, as it normally does as we head into mid to end of July. We are still seeing an occasional late season sierra in the mix. While trolling live baits (caballito and green jacks) through different shorelines and rock structures, we have seen a handful of pargo colorado and dogtooth snapper. Most of these snapper and the bigger roosters continue to show towards San Luis and Punta Gorda/Zacatitos areas.
Not much action to report on our high sports from Vinorama to Cardon. Still seeing plenty of shark schools in the area. Dorado and wahoo in these areas were both very scarce; we did see a handful of dorado and wahoo on ballyhoo and Rapalas, though these were few and far between, smaller sized juvenile fish.
Good Fishing, Brian
