GORDO BANKS PANGAS
April 20th, 2025
Happy Easter Sunday to all of our anglers and friends!
This week, most of our captains got some well-deserved rest as they took Thursday through Sunday off. The tradition down here in Los Cabos is to go camping for 2-3 days throughout our beach shorelines. That said, our marina was fairly empty and not many charters went out.
The few boats that we had going out did well. Most of our charters focused on action closer to shore. We did notice that the sierra bite slowed down significantly as compared to the previous weeks. We are fishing these sierras on dead sardines as we continue with live bait struggles. The bait guys are bringing these sardines from the East Cape. We might see a few live caballito and mullet some mornings that we can use to troll for Roosterfish. Roosterfish action throughout our shorelines continues to get better as the water warms up. We are seeing bigger Roosters in the mix, some in the 30-pound class.
Bottom activity seemed to be slower this week as well. Even though we had a few nice grouper, snapper, amberjack, and yellowtail, the numbers were not great; only a couple quality bottom fish seen at the fillet table per day. The best bottom action came from Palmilla Point on jigs. Many charters are focusing on fishing the bottom and inshore around the Palmilla area early in the morning and then heading offshore from there (5-10 miles) in the search for a striped marlin. Not many marlin were reported this week; most boats were able to spot them, though they wouldn’t bite.
The main highlight this week was chasing yellowfin with porpoise schools offshore. Earlier in the week, these porpoise schools were spotted 45-50 miles out with great tuna action; most of them football size. As the week came to an end, porpoise schools were found as close as 24 miles from our marina, in the direction of Iman-Vinorama. A few 30–40-pound yellowfin were caught in the same mix. Surprisingly, we had a handful of nice wahoo, all over 40 pounds that were caught in the same porpoise schools on cedar plugs and Rapalas/Nomads. A total of 6 wahoo were brought to our fillet table this week; the biggest one weighing 58 pounds.
Good Fishing, Brian
