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Aug 13, 2017; 11:07PM - Gordo Banks Pangas
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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August 13, 2017
It seems that with each passing day the weather is becoming more humid,
increasing cloud cover, we have not had any rain recently, but presently we
are feeling the remnants of Tropical Storm Franklin (now renamed TS Jova) which
had passed through the Gulf or Mexico and made land fall over Southern
Mexico. Forecast are for possible thundershowers over the weekend. Winds
have been very moderate, most likely will increase as this latest tropical
system passes through and moves off to the west. Swells have been very
light, though they are predicted to increase up to five or six feet by the
start of this coming week. Ocean water temperatures have been up into the
85/87 degree range.
The main species of gamefish being found now has been yellowfin tuna, areas
from the Gordo Banks to Iman Bank have been most productive, though
schooling of fish have been found spread out throughout the region as well.
Live bait has been limited to some mullet and caballito, also still a
chance at obtaining sardinas in limited quantities, this is only because
surf conditions have been so light, giving the bait netters a chance to
find some scattered schools of the sardinas, also on some days fleets are
bringing these baitfish down from areas further towards the East Cape.
Using strips of giant squid is now becoming more of an everyday deal. Some
chihuil and bolito have been jigged up at times on the offshore grounds and
are being used for slow trolling.
The yellowfin tuna are ranging in sizes from small footballs, to over 80
lb. The larger fish have been striking on strips of squid, sardinas or
trolled whole baits, on the Inner Gordo Banks and north on the Iman Bank.
Bite varied from day to day, some days fish bit early, some days later,
overall they proved to be more finicky and line shy, leaders not heavier
than 50 lb. were best. The full moon is now waning and these darkening
nights should help the bite get back on track. Average catches have ranging
from 1 or 2 tuna, up to 10, depending on size and where you happen to be on
a given day.
As it commonly occurs in August, it can be hard to find much variety,
besides the yellowfin tuna, a few scattered mostly small dorado, as well as
a handful of sailfish, an occasional wahoo sighting or missed strike,
angler’s did land one 35 lb. wahoo early in the week. Not much off the
bottom, strong current has been persistent and this made it even hard to
affectively work the bottom, a couple of dogtooth snapper, huachinango,
cabrilla, bonito, amberjack and triggerfish rounded out the structure
action.
Not many charters fished along the shoreline now, late in the season for
this, though we did hear of a few roosterfish being caught and released.
Billfish action was limited, though one black marlin of about 360 lb. was
landed and another couple of big marlin strikes were lost, also more
sailfish moving in with the warmer currents and of course some striped
marlin stragglers still hanging in the area, while most of these cooler
water marlin have moved towards Northern Baja.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 88 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 1 black marlin, 3 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 16
dorado, 1 wahoo, 3 amberjack, 3 dogtooth snapper, 12 bonito, 8 yellow
snapper, 238 yellowfin tuna, 11 leopard grouper,2 pinto cabrilla, 18
huachinango, 9 roosterfish and 38 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Aug 13, 2017; 11:05PM - Gordo Banks Pangas
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
Aug. 6, 2017
Light summer time crowds of anglers enjoyed calmer weather patterns this
past week, with no new tropical storms presently forming to the south, it
appears conditions will be favorable at least through the later part of
next week. It is hard to predict tropical weather forecast too far in
advance this time of year. Humidity has increased, August is always a muggy
month, there is more could cover, though heat is intense, with the combined
heat index nearing 110 degrees. Ocean water temperatures are warming daily,
up to an average of 87 degrees now, ocean swells are moderate, as no storms
are near at this time.
The main target species which has been cooperating is the yellowfin tuna,
with action now being found from the Gordo Banks, Cardon, Iman, San Luis to
Vinorama. Sizes for the tuna has ranged from 10 lb. to 80 lb. Most all of
this action has been found while drift fishing with various baits, from
live and dead sardinas, caballito, chunks of skipjack and strips of squid.
It is always beneficial to have as many bait options as possible for this
style of fishing. Some days these fish were hitting early, other days late,
so you also need to know how to ration your bait supplies accordingly. Just
in recent days the yellowfin have been more active on the Gordo Banks, this
will be a welcome relief for local fleets, which have had to travel as far
as Vinorama to find action and then compete with all of the East Cape
fleets that were traveling south to the same grounds. Numbers of tuna were
not huge, but many charters were accounting for up to five fish, with many
of these in the 40 to 70 lb. class, nice quality fish. A bit line shy as
well, so using 30 to 50 lb. tackle has produced more action, though also
many bigger fish have been broke off.
Wahoo and dorado were very sporadic, a scattering of mostly smaller sized
dorado and wahoo which had bit well last week, tapered way off this week,
as they often do become more sluggish when the water temperatures reaches
into the upper 80s. Billfish bite was slow as well, who knows what is up
with that. Plenty of sharks in the area, as many of the hooked up tuna were
being bit into as they neared the boats, from the size of the bite marks,
these were not small sharks.
Bottom action was not consistent, but produced a mix of huachinango,
amberjack, pompano, bonito and various cabrilla species. Highlight were a
few amberjack in the 40 to 50 lb. range. These fish were striking more
often on yo-yo style jigs, some on whole and cut baits.
Not much inshore fishing action being dome now, some anglers did scout this
option out, but did not have much to report, a few roosterfish, jack
crevalle and at least one dogtooth snapper.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 76 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 4 striped marlin, 2 sailfish, 22 dorado, 6
wahoo, 7 amberjack, 3 pompano, 1 dogtooth snapper, 8 bonito, 12 yellow
snapper, 202 yellowfin tuna, 14 leopard grouper, 4 spotted cabrilla, 55
huachinango, 11 jack crevalle, 6 roosterfish and 72 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Aug 3, 2017; 02:12AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo July 23, 2017
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
July 23, 2017
Another week with light crowds and increasingly warmer weather. The latest
tropical storm which has developed off of Southern Mexico is named Greg, it
is following the recent trend and heading on a westerly track offshore, all
we felt from this system was perhaps more tropical climate with increased
humidity. Winds were relatively light, morning calmer, with breeze picking
up mid-day on. Ocean temperatures are back up in the 80 to 84 degree range
on the Sea of Cortez side of the Peninsula and on the Pacific Banks it is
about 78 degrees.
Sportfishing fleets have been fishing from Chileno, Palmilla, Gordo Banks,
to Iman and San Luis. Action was spread out now. Largest fish we heard of
was early in the week, a 428 lb. black marlin which was hooked into while
trolling a lure around the Gordo Banks, other highlight was a 100 lb. class
yellowfin tuna landed on Thursday. Most common catches were for a smaller
grade of 10 to 20 pound yellowfin, these fish were scattered throughout the
inshore region, striking on trolled hoochies and smaller Rapalas. This
action started out strong early in the week, was more spread out by the
weekend. These schooling tuna were not associated with porpoise, just found
in open water, along the inshore drop off.
A few more numbers of dorado, though most of these were under 8 lb., only
an occasional larger specimen seen. Tolling same type of tuna lures was the
best bet to find these fish. Inshore there was decent action for
roosterfish, hot spot perhaps off of the San Jose Hotel zone, fish to
over40 lb. were landed, also many juveniles mixed in.
The action off the bottom was up and down, one day good, next day slim,
mainly targeting red snapper (huachinango), in the 4 to 12 lb. range, found
near San Luis Bank and hooked up with yo-yo style jigs. Only a few
amberjack were found. No dogtooth snapper to speak of either, only a couple
of small ones. The months of July and August is when we normally to find
the largest of amberjack and dogtooth snapper, so our fingers are crossed
that these normal patterns are just running a little being typical
schedules.
Bait supplies consisted of mullet and caballito, some anglers are starting
to try their luck with strips of squid, but so far noting has been
consistent with that, need a larger grade of yellowfin to move in, it is
the time of year we do regularly see the quality grade tuna move in.
Some limited wahoo activity was reported this week, more strikes missed and
lures cut off than fish caught, this happened while trolling for the tuna,
though a couple of wahoo up to 25 lb. were landed. First of these we have
seen in a while. With inshore waters cleaning back up, blue water is what
wahoo prefer. If water temperatures become too much warmer these fish often
become more sluggish.
We heard of one 45 lb. class snook landed off the beach in the evening,
these world class fish are in the area, though you have to put in some
serious effort and be fortunate to land one.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 59 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 1 black marlin, 4 striped marlin,24 dorado, 2
wahoo, 8 amberjack, 16 bonito, 11 yellow snapper, 4 barred pargo, 185
yellowfin tuna, 10 leopard grouper, 2 dogtooth snapper, 84 huachinango, 9
jack crevalle, 68 roosterfish, 2 pompano and 22 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Aug 3, 2017; 02:09AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
July 16 2017
Light crowds of tourists were feeling the real heat of the summer season
now, as weather patterns have stabilized, feeling more tropical, higher
humidity and lighter winds. Surf conditions were larger, as a result of two
distant hurricanes, Eugene and Fernanda, which formed off Southern Mexico
and headed off on northwesterly tracks. No impact on land was felt, except
for larger ocean swells and high humidity. Ocean temperatures have warmed
up into the 82 degree range on the Sea of Cortez side, the Pacific is still
slightly cooler. Water clarity has continued to improve, green water
inshore is showing improvement each day.
Live bait options consisted of caballito and mullet, some chihuil and
bolito were being found and used for trolling on the offshore grounds.
Inshore fishing action slowed with higher surf conditions, a scattering of
roosterfish and jack crevalle. Most fleets are working the grounds from
Iman to the San Luis Banks, this is where the most productive all around
action was encountered.
With the warming currents, the fast action for huachinango has slowed down,
though there were still some to be caught, all on yo-yo jigs, off of Iman
and San Luis Banks, also a mix of Eastern Pacific bonito, up to 10 lb.
These were the same grounds that quality sized yellowfin tuna were
schooling, not in huge numbers, but tuna in the 30 to 80 lb. range were
being hooked into on a daily basis. These yellowfin were also striking the
yo-yo jigs well this past week, not something they commonly do, usually
they prefer various whole or cut baits. Besides striking on yo-yo jigs,
these tuna also would hit while drift fishing or slow trolling baits. Most
charters were having chances at least for one or two tuna, other landed as
many as three of four. Many fish were lost as well, because these yellowfin
were a bit line shy, most anglers were using 40 to 50 lb. leaders in order
to have better chances at hooking up, resulting in a greater percentage of
lost fish as well.
As the ocean water temperature has warmed back up and as the present surf
swell resides, this could be the opportunity for dogtooth snapper to
finally go on the bite, so far this season we have seen very limited
activity from these larger of all pargo species. We did see a couple of
nice sized amberjack recently, this is the time of year when we see the
largest of these ambers of the season, not uncommon to see fish up to 80
lb. or more this month.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 61 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 3 striped marlin, 16 dorado, 7 amberjack, 32
bonito, 11 yellow snapper, 3 barred pargo, 89 yellowfin tuna, 13 leopard
grouper, 165 huachinango, 12 jack crevalle, 24 roosterfish and 26
triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jul 9, 2017; 02:10AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
July 2, 2017
Through another month, we now begin the first of the three true summer
months. Up until now we have felt relatively mild heat, a bit cooler than
normal throughout June. These conditions feel great for local residents, as
we know that soon enough we will endurance much warmer and humid times.
Last week Hurricane Dora formed and passed as a category one storm about
250 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, locally there were some limited
isolated rain squalls, did not amount to much at all though, as this system
quickly weakened as it passed over cooler Pacific waters.
We did feel some south winds, but much less and lighter than the previous
week. Though the ocean conditions remains turned over, as slack currents
are delaying the time it takes for conditions to rebound. Water temperature
is back up into the 74 degree range in the direction of San Jose del Cabo
and Los Frailes, out to about 10 to 15 miles the water is green, slowly
clearing, offshore the water is cleaner and up into the upper 70 degree
range. Though better fishing action is still be found closer inshore near
the Iman to San Luis Banks, charters that scouted grounds further offshore
did not reports much, some scattered yellowfin tuna early in the week for
charters out of Cabo San Lucas, but that action dissipated later in the
week. Not much being reported for billfish action, some striped marlin
being seen, but very few actual hook ups.
Bait supplies remained steady for caballito and mullet, not much else now,
even bolito on the fishing grounds vanished, as conditions eventually
recover we do expect the offshore grounds to attract the baitfish schools
and more gamefish following. In the meantime fleets found that the most
productive action was off the bottom, mainly on yo-yo type jigs for red
snapper and a few amberjack. The snapper, or huachinango were found mainly
on the San Luis bank, best bite was early in the day and these excellent
eating fish averaged 4 to 10 lb. We saw a few amberjack off these same
grounds, weight from 10 to 30 lb.
Only a few small sized dorado reported in recent days and a couple of
reported missed wahoo strikes. There were some quality sized yellowfin tuna
hooked into on the grounds from Iman to San Luis, anglers drift fishing or
slow trolling various baits had opportunities when putting in enough time,
there was one yellowfin close to 100 lb. landed mid-week, other days we
would see a few tuna in the 40 to 70 lb. class for all charters combined. A
few smaller football sized tuna were also hooked into on yo-yo jigs or
trolled hoochies, but numbers were light. Though with this grade of
yellowfin schooling in the green water, over the bottom structure we do
expect for the bite to become much more consistent as the clarity of the
water improves. Crazy now how the action is still better closer to shore
where the water clarity is greener, rather than further offshore in the
blue water. The deal is that there is more baitfish close to shore than
further out, the fish do need to follow their food supply.
For the charters that did try inshore areas for roosterfish, they did find
some activity, though these fish were more scattered due to off-colored,
cooler conditions, as well as the swells increasing earlier in the week due
to the passing of Hurricane Dora..
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 68 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 4 dorado, 8 amberjack, 28 bonito, 18 yellow
snapper, 7 barred pargo, 29 yellowfin tuna, 9 leopard grouper, 1 dogtooth
snapper, 1 broomtail grouper, 235 huachinango, 10 jack crevalle, 12
roosterfish, 3 sierra and 28 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jul 1, 2017; 05:29PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
June 25, 2017
The official start to summer season began this week, though at this time
the climate feels cooler that you would normally expect at this time. With
high temperatures averaging in the mid to upper 80s. The conditions for
this entire past week was dominated by persistent swirling southern winds,
gusting to 30 mph at times. These relentless winds have turned over the
ocean conditions entirely, the week before we saw ocean temperatures
reaching up to 80 degrees in the direction of San Jose del Cabo and further
north, presently water temperatures in this same region are now in the 69
to 70 degree range, all the way to Punta Colorado and some fifteen miles or
more offshore.
So sportfishing fleets have been searching hard, with only so many options
available. The conditions on land actually felt pleasant, agreeable
temperature, though until these winds patterns settle down, we will be
plagued by cooler water conditions from the Pacific, as well as currents
being greenish for the first few miles out, eventually things will rebound,
but for now it is a waiting game and mainly fishing closer to shore for
what fish species might be cooperative. Bait supplies consisted of mullet
and caballito, surf conditions increased some and this made in more
challenging for the bait netters to find mullet, caballito were being
netted inside the marina channel where it was calmer.
With ocean water temperatures progressively cooler all week, and moving
farther offshore the all-around action became more limited. Earlier in the
week there were fair numbers of roosterfish found trolling baits along the
shoreline, some roosters to 50 lb. were reported, also jack crevalle and a
handful of sierra. A few dogtooth snapper to 20 lb. were landed, as well as
various structure species, island jack, pompano, yellow snapper,
huachinango, leopard grouper, broomtail grouper, amberjack, bonito and
triggerfish. No huge numbers, but decent variety and all quality eating
fish. As the week went on the bite fell off, cooler water shut down the
roosterfish and choppy conditions made it tough to even try and fish the
bottom structure.
A few yellowfin tuna to fifty pounds were landed, these from the grounds
from Iman to San Luis Banks, on yo-yo jigs or various baitfish. Also
limited number of dorado earlier in the week before water temperature
cooled so much. A few wahoo strikes were reported as well, so these pelagic
gamefish are still in the area and as conditions recover the action will
surely turn back around. These weather patterns are becoming even more
unpredictable and can be discouraging, but will recover soon enough, just
can be very unfortunate for anglers that arrived during this time frame.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 60 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 2 striped marlin, 5 dorado, 13 amberjack, 9
island jack, 4 pompano, 44 bonito, 9 yellowfin tuna, 30 yellow snapper, 6
barred pargo, 12 leopard grouper, 3 dogtooth snapper, 1 broomtail, 32
huachinango, 12 jack crevalle, 22 roosterfish, 1 parrot fish, 8 sierra and
35 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jul 1, 2017; 05:22PM - Gordo Banks Pangas
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
June 18, 2017
It is starting to feel more like summer with each passing week, though the
climate is still very comfortable, high temperature near 90 degrees. Some
scattered tropical clouds now appearing, there was a Tropical Storm Calvin
last week off of the southern Mexican coast, did bring heavy rainfall to
isolated areas, but here in Los Cabos we were not impacted at all from this
system. Ocean swells have been light to moderate, water temperature are
reaching 78 to 80 degrees in the direction of San Jose del Cabo and to the
north, this is also where the clarity of the ocean has been the clearest,
attracting more pelagic gamefish.
Just coming off the full moon phase from last week, conditions are settled
down in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, though the Pacific has had more
wind, with much cooler water temperatures and greener currents, not the
deep blue waters being found north of Punta Gorda. Update on water clarity
turning green after strong south sinds on Friday, this did slow down the
action and now we will wait for conditions to rebound as winds reside.
Bait suppliers are mainly dealing caballito and mullet now, offshore
grounds are seeing more bolito move in and some reports of chihuil also
being present. All around action showed favorable improvement in recent
days, still no huge numbers of any particular species, but always a great
sign when we see billfish, yellowfin tuna, wahoo, dorado and roosterfish
all being found on a daily basis. Most consistent grounds were from the
Iman and San Luis Banks, north to Vinorama, this is where the water is
clean and blue, with lots of baitfish schools present, which in turn means
that the gamefish have more than enough natural food source to gorge
themselves on and are not always hungry and aggressive in striking what
anglers offer.
Yellowfin tuna are scattered throughout offshore grounds, though best
chance at hooking into a 40 to 60 lb. yellowfin was in the vicinity of San
Luis Bank and the bait of choice was either caballito or bolito, either
while drift fishing or slow trolling. Other tuna in the 10 to 25 lb. range
were randomly striking trolled Rapalas, hoochies, yo-yo jigs, etc. Though
the better grade of tuna were striking mainly on the larger live baitfish.
Though these fish were limited in numbers, with anglers very fortunate to
land one or two of them.
.Inshore action is now dominated by roosterfish, with many fish in the 20
to 60 lb. class landed, as well as a handful of even larger fish reported.
A bit sporadic as to where the best action might be found on any given day.
Also mixed in are some jack crevalle to over 25 lb., as well as some late
season sierra, a few nice sized fish close to ten pounds. Not much reported
for inshore dogtooth snapper or amberjack, we are expected this annual bite
to start up anytime, with schooling mullet now found along the shore line,
this attracts larger gamefish.
The highlight of the week has to be the dorado action, after seeing very
few of these popular gamefish for months, this week we finally saw more
significant numbers, especially later in the week around the same San Luis
and Iman Bank areas. Many charters were accounting for three or four dorado
per outing, which would have been unheard of during previous weeks. Sizes
were respectable as well, most of these dorado were in the 10 to 17 lb.
range. These fish were striking best on slow trolled baits, but a
percentage were also taken on lures. Wahoo are becoming more active as
well, with many fish cutting mono leaders used while targeting tuna, some
wahoo to 30 lb. were landed on caballito, as well as trolled Rapalas, many
more wahoo were actually missed than were caught.
The main concentration of striped marlin was found around the 1150 spot
further offshore, though marlin were also encountered near San Luis and
Iman Banks on some days. Also there were a couple of reports of swordfish
sightings further offshore as well.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 77 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 8 striped marlin, 16 wahoo, 68 dorado, 3
amberjack, 5 pompano, 28 bonito, 58 yellowfin tuna, 14 yellow snapper, 12
barred pargo, 15 leopard grouper, 34 huachinango, 18 jack crevalle, 75
roosterfish, 22 sierra and 65 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jul 1, 2017; 05:18PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
June 11, 2017
As we move further towards the official start of the summer season the
climate is progressively warming, though conditions remain very
comfortable, with high temperatures averaging about 85 degrees, mild
considering the time or year. Winds have been predominately from the
Pacific, out of the southwest, in the direction of San Jose del Cabo and
further north ocean conditions have been much calmer, this is also where
the ocean temperatures are reaching up to 80 degrees, while on the Pacific
side of Cabo San Lucas the water temperatures are in the 67 to 70 degree
range. So all of the fishing activity is now on the Sea of Cortez side of
the Peninsula, from Chileno towards Vinorama. Very green water on the
Pacific, with the cleanest blue water now found north of Punta Gorda and
towards the San Luis Bank.
Bait supplies are mostly consisting now of caballito and mullet, only very
limited amounts of sardinas are being netted, they commonly migrate
elsewhere this time of year as the warmer currents move in. More schools of
bolito are moving onto the offshore fishing grounds, always a very
favorable sign, as they are a preferred food source for many gamefish.
The action for striped marlin was much improved this week, though now with
the full moon phase these fish can become more finicky during daylight
hours. One of the more productive spots was the 1150 area, with many
charters reportedly having three or four hooks ups per outing, the stripers
were coming up on trolling lures and rigged baits, as well as being spotted
tailing on the surface and striking on dropped back baits, sizes ranged to
130 lb. The billfish were found spread out through the region, but not as
numerous as they were on the grounds further offshore.
With the warmer water we are finally seeing some dorado appear, still no
significant numbers, but at least they are showing up on a daily basis,
most of them weighing in the 5 to 15 lb. range, there were a few reports of
larger bulls hooked up and lost. Wahoo were also in the mix, anglers
reported hooking into these speedsters while trolling various baits as well
as on Rapalas, again no numbers, but a chance at a couple of fish, weights
ranged from 20 to 35 lb.
Yellowfin tuna often become more picky during the full moon period, but
they are definitely in the area, most of these fish are now concentrated
from the San Luis to Vinorama areas, ranging from smaller footballs to over
60 lb. Best chance of hooking a nicer sized yellowfin was while slow
trolling with live caballito. The tuna were shy though and anglers were
fortunate to land one or two, striking more frequently on lighter leaders
With the large influx of schooling mullet along the shorelines, this has
brought in increased numbers of roosterfish, last week we saw a lot of fish
in the 15 to 25 lb. class, but in recent days we have seen some much larger
roosters, included an 80 lb. class fish that was successfully landed and
carefully released.
Not all that much bottom fishing going on, as more anglers were now opting
to targeting other available species. So far we have yet to see the
amberjack and dogtooth appear close to shore over the rocky structure, but
we are expecting that this action could happen at any given time, as this
is the normal time frame in the coming weeks, with water temperatures now
near 80 degrees, that means anything can happen at any time.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 62 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 13 striped marlin, 11 wahoo, 14 dorado, 1
amberjack, 8 pompano, 3 bonito, 38 yellowfin tuna, 9 yellow snapper, 4
barred pargo, 8 leopard grouper, 5 island jack, 12 surgeon fish, 26
huachinango, 15 jack crevalle, 55 roosterfish, 1 yellowtail, 12 sierra and
55 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jun 13, 2016; 07:38PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo Anglers – June 5, 2016
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
June 5, 2016
With the official start of the summer still a couple of weeks away, the
weather conditions are steadily warming and becoming more humid. Scattered
morning clouds, burning off quickly as the day progresses. Wind patterns
have been mainly from the south, 10 to 20 mph, generally calm early in the
day, with more breeze later in the afternoon. Swells increased some this
past week and there were strong currents, so swimmers need to be aware and
use extra caution. Ocean water temperatures was in the lower 70’s on the
Pacific, off of San Jose del Cabo it averaged 78 degrees and towards Los
Frailes it was in the 80 degree range.
The local bait situation remains the same, anglers are using strips of
squid, ballyhoo, caballito, jurelito and moonfish. Though this should be
the season where we are finding bolito and smaller skipjack on the offshore
grounds, so far we have seen very little of this activity, same goes for
the inshore mullet migration, we have yet to see any of these schooling
baitfish either, this being one of the reasons that not much inshore
fishing action has been encountered, normally this is time when the annual
roosterfish run starts to really take off, so far this action has been very
spotty, a handful of larger grade roosterfish were caught and released from
the offshore structure areas, where tuna, pargo and amberjack were also
being targeted. This has been a trend in recent years for the roosterfish,
normally an inshore species, though with the lack of inshore baitfish these
gamefish are roaming further offshore to find food.
The main concentration of striped marlin is now being found from 15 to 20
miles offshore, besides striped marlin, a few sailfish in the mix, plenty
of pilot sharks as well, with many of these sharks even striking on higher
speed trolling lures, not only bait, an occasional wahoo on these same
grounds as well, including a 75 lb. wahoo taken mid-week. Some of the
stripers recently have been larger sized, up to 150 lb., we usually do see
some of the bigger stripers towards the end of the main season. Not many
wahoo were reported this past week, though we are seeing at least a couple
per day in the overall fish count, no particular spot has been best for
this, either out on the marlin ground, or closer to shore..
Amberjack are in the area, though the bite has moved around from day to
day, some of these jacks have been found close to the marina entrance, off
of the San Jose Estuary and off of Palmilla Point, as well as on the San
Luis Bank. Many of these ambers were weighing in the 20 to 40 lb. range.
The amberjack were striking best on the live baits, either caballito or
moonfish. A couple of dogtooth snapper were also reported, this is the time
we should see more of these largest of the pargo species moving into local
waters. Besides finding plenty of triggerfish, though now mostly smaller
size, not as large as we were seeing earlier in the spring, we are seeing a
mix of some barred pargo and yellow snapper, both being quality eating
species and scrappy fighters.
Yellowfin tuna has been hit or miss, but in recent days we are seeing an
improvement, smaller grade yellowfin striking on smaller trolled hoochies
from Red Hill to Chileno Bay and north between Iman and Vinorama anglers
found tuna up to 40 pounds on high sots while drift fishing strips of squid
or slow trolling surf with caballito or moonfish. Once again the lack of
sardina we are not having as easy of time enticing these yellowfin tuna
into surface feeding frenzies.
Dorado were starting to be found in greater number, but anglers were still
lucky to land a couple of these fish, with most of these being smaller in
size, only a handful of fish up to 20 lb. accounted for.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 73 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 2 sailfish, 5 dogtooth snapper, 25 striped
marlin, 18 wahoo, 105 yellowfin tuna, 22 bonito, 58 dorado, 32 amberjack,
13 leopard grouper (cabrilla), 55 yellow snapper, 15 sierra, 14 barred, 18
huachinango (red snapper), 10 roosterfish and 160 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jun 13, 2016; 07:36PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo Anglers – May 29, 2016
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
May 29, 2016
We are still only seeing moderate crowds of tourists arriving, though we
expect that when school semesters all finish there will be more families
going on vacation. The weather definitely became more tropical this past
week, we saw scattered cloud cover much of the morning, burning off as the
days progressed, high temperatures in the upper 80s. There was some
swirling gusting winds the first part of the week, the second half we saw
calmer conditions, afternoon breezes picking up predominately from the
south, though overall anglers enjoyed comfortably fishing conditions.
Swells increased some and currents were also stronger than normal. Water
temperatures ranged from 70 degrees around the corner on the Pacific side
of Cabo San Lucas, to near 80 degrees on the Sea of Cortez side, this is
where the majority of the sportfishing fleets were concentrated, From off
of Chileno, to Red Hill, Cardon, La Fortuna, Iman, San Luis and Vinorama.
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Anglers found that baitfish were less plentiful this past week, not much
inshore baitfish activity at all and the offshore grounds did have some
small skipjack, but no reports of bolito, should start seeing more of this
favored food source showing on the local fishing grounds soon. Limited
supplies of caballito, moonfish, jurelito were available in the marina area
and the bait vendors also were offering ballyhoo and slabs of squid.
Fishing action was slower for the first part of the week, partly because
winds limited options, but later in the week we saw much improved action,
particularly near the San Luis Bank, where hog sized amberjack in the 20 to
80 lb. class were accounted for, also some good wahoo action was
encountered, as well as more dorado than we had previously seen. Anglers
used various baits and lures, a combination of drift fishing, slow trolling
and higher speed trolling all produced strikes. We saw wahoo to 50 pounds
and dorado up to 25 lb. Yellowfin tuna were scattered, some hitting on
squid and others while trolling smaller hoochies and Rapalas, most of the
tuna landed were in the 5 to 20 lb. range. There were reports of charters
landing as many as a dozen yellowfin trolling off of Red Hill, while north
of Punta Gorda most boats were only finding a couple yellowfin in the their
combined catch, but there was more chances at variety in that direction,
particularly for finding the wahoo, dorado and amberjack.
Striped marlin were found within several miles of shore, as well as further
out on their normal traditional grounds. Striking on baits as well as
trolled lures, sizes ranged from 50 to 130 lb. There was an unusual story
this week of a 20 ft. whale shark being seen swimming around inside the
Cabo San Lucas Marina, apparently this was event never witnessed before,
normally this very elusive species is encountered occasionally in the clear
waters on offshore sea mounts.
Not much roosterfish action reported, though there were at least some being
hooked into by hard core surf anglers, lack of inshore baitfish activity to
attract more of these prized fighters. Next month is usually the prime
season for these sought after gamefish.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 78 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 5 sailfish, 1 yellowtail, 28 striped marlin, 33
wahoo, 86 yellowfin tuna, 25 bonito, 26 dorado, 29 amberjack, 6 cabrilla,
15 yellow snapper, 14 sierra, 8 barred pargo, 5 parrot fish, 3 pompano and
200 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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