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May 12, 2019; 04:02PM - 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 –
November 26, 2017
Still very busy with visiting tourists
now in Los Cabos, many of them here
enjoying their Thanksgiving holidays
and everyone seems to be enjoying
themselves, as the weather is pristine,
clear sunny skies with temperatures
averaging 85 degrees. Following this
week we normally see a bit of slack
time as far as numbers of tourists
arriving, as people get back to work
and school, then start preparing for
the Christmas Holiday Season.
Early in the week there was persistent
north wind creating rough conditions on
the grounds to the north of Punta
Gorda, but late in the week they
resided and ocean conditions were
great. Water temperature is now right
around 80 degrees, this keeps prospects
very favorable for the coming weeks.
Bait supplies remained fairly steady
for sardinas, now schooling near
Palmilla beaches and further south,
though on a few days they did become a
bit more limited due to the extra heavy
pressure during this holiday week.
Other bait options continued to be
slabs of squid, ballyhoo and the more
elusive chihuil, which was the candy
bait being used for targeting the
highly sought after wahoo. Water was
very clean and blue now, almost too
clean on offshore high spots, as fish
can also become more finicky at times
when there is an abundance of natural
food source and the water is crystal
clear.
Though for most anglers they did report
good success, most common species being
the yellowfin tuna, there continued to
be good action for the smaller sized
tuna off of Palmilla Point, hitting
mainly on the sardinas and ranging in
sizes of 10 to 20 plus lb. The action
for the larger grade yellowfin that had
been happening on San Luis and Iman
Banks, slowed way down this week, as
more of the smaller tuna to 20 lb. also
moved in on these grounds. Most likely
the larger fish are still hanging
around, but just have not wanted to
compete with all of these smaller tuna.
Dorado were scattered, not being being
found in any particular area, best
chances were on the same grounds where
the tuna were schooling, we did see a
few dorado up to 20 lb., which is nicer
sized than we had been seeing, reports
of more dorado were coming from the
Pacific.
The wahoo action on closer by spots was
very limited, just an occasional fish,
though near Vinorama there has been an
excellent bite on these speedsters. The
deal was to first go and catch the bait
of choice, chihuil, either on the Inner
Gordo Banks or at times on Iman. Not
all charters are even prepared to do
this, this is more of a panga deal than
cruiser, they are spooky mackerel sized
baits that are chummed up and caught
one at a time on very light leader.
Some boats were landing over five nice
wahoo and loosing many other strikes,
sizes increased throughout the week, as
several specimens over 50 lb. and one
of 64 lb. were weighed in. We are
looking forward when these fish move
within closer range, as they should do
soon as the heavy boat pressure
lightens up.
Not much in the way of local billfish
action out of San Jose del Cabo, though
on the Pacific they were reported more
striped marlin, though many were
smaller sized juvenile fish. Still a
chance of hooking into a black or blue
marlin, with the warmer water and all
of the skipjack and yellowfin tuna to
keep them interested.
Not much bottom action reported, though
we saw a few more exotics this week,
besides the prevalent triggerfish,
there were a few amberjack, island
jack, cabrilla and various pargo. Every
day we are seeing a handful of sierra
in the mix, look for this inshore
action to take off soon as the water
temperature cools off.
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 142 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 1 black marlin, 1 blue
marlin, 107 wahoo, 24 sierra, 925
yellowfin tuna, 55 dorado, 13
amberjack, 11 yellow snapper, 18
huachinango, 8 island jack, 4 barred
pargo, 18 Eastern Pacific bonito, 90
white skipjack, 8 cabrilla and 95
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
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May 12, 2019; 04:00PM - 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 –
November 19, 2017
The crazy busy fall season is going to
start lightening up in the next week,
though this past week was very busy.
Visiting anglers were enjoying clear
sunny skies, with high temperatures in
the upper 80s, still warmer than usual
for this late in the fall. Winds were
picking up from the north, though more
so later in the morning, most fishing
action now was concentrated from the
Gordo Banks to San Luis Banks and the
spots in between. Ocean water
temperatures were still holding in the
83 to 84 degree range, several degrees
warmer than usual, so we are
anticipating having good action
throughout the month of December as
well.
Despite continued heavy pressure the
supplies of sardinas have been holding
up, being netted along the beach
stretches from Palmilla and further
south, this meant a bit of back
tracking or waiting near the marina
entrance, but at least this preferred
bait was obtainable, anglers also
continue to use slabs of squid as well.
Most consistent action this week was
for the yellowfin tuna on the Iman and
San Luis Banks, wide open action on
tuna in the 10 to 20 lb. class, also
other areas where a handful of
yellowfin in the 70 to 100 lb. range
were being landed. The Gordo Banks
slowed down, but was still the place to
look for the possible largest of tuna,
though this week we only heard of a
couple of fish in the 150 lb. range,
none over 200 or 300 lb. that we found
out about. A few black marlin still
hanging around in the warmer currents
as well, with all of the tuna around,
plenty of food source for the marlin.
Lots of natural food on the banks as
well, this can make the larger tuna
more finicky. Most days charters were
returning early, plugged with tuna, the
majority the smaller grade, but still
nice fish.
Dorado continued to be harder to come
by, only a sporadic fish or two being
found, most all under 15 lb., an
occasional exception close to 20 lb.
The wahoo action has not really broken
open yet, though we have had ta aste of
some decent action, and some boats were
fortunate to get lucky and land as many
as four in one morning, though other
boats were searching hard and felt
lucky if they landed one. Best chances
for the wahoo seemed to be on the
ground from the Iman Bank and to
Vinorama. The wahoo were striking on
various rapalas, lures and baits. We
are hoping that as crowds lighten up
some, the wahoo will become more
active, with the warmer water hanging
around the prospects remain high for
the next few weeks.
Not really the time frame now when
there is a lot of bottom action going
on, though there were a few amberjack,
pargo, bonito, cabrilla being accounted
for, more triggerfish than anything
else. A few more sierra starting to
appear, even though the water is still
warm, in the next month we should see
some better inshore action happening,
perhaps more off the bottom as well.
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 210 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 3 black marlin, 1 yellowtail
corvina, 78 wahoo, 28 sierra, 1650
yellowfin tuna, 78 dorado, 9 amberjack,
12 yellow snapper, 28 huachinango, 25
Eastern Pacific bonito, 82 white
skipjack, 10 cabrilla and 110
triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
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May 12, 2019; 03:54PM - 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 –
November 12, 2017
Peak season now for the panga fleets
out of San Jose del Cabo, this Sunday
is the annual Wahoo Tournament, which
also coincides with the sanctioned Iron
Man event in Los Cabos, many roads will
be closed off and patience will be
needed to navigate in any direction. It
can always be a challenge this time of
year, as everyone seems to want to
visit and go fishing all on the same
dates. Another couple of weeks and
things will settle back down to more
ordinary schedules.
Ocean temperatures are now in the 81 to
84 degrees range, still a few degrees
higher than normal for this time frame.
Early in the week we felt the season’s
first real consistent wind patterns
from the north develop, this made for
much tougher fishing conditions in the
direction of the Gordo Banks, Iman and
San Luis Banks. Many charters opted to
fish in the direction of Cabo San
Lucas, in calmer waters, catching good
number of fish, though the grade of
yellowfin tuna were smaller, off of
Palmilla Point there was a hot bite for
football sized tuna, with a few dorado
and wahoo mixed in. Bait netters were
still finding sardinas, despite the
heavy pressure, the bait schools were
now mainly concentrated around Palmilla
beaches. Other bait options included
some caballito, ballyhoo, slabs of
squid and chihuil.
Last weekend the Los Cabos WON Tuna
Jackpot was held and local La Playita
team “Estrella del Norte†with team
captain James Rosenwald and mate/angler
Adrian Miranda who caught the winning
338 lb. yellowfin tuna, taking home a
cool quarter of a million dollars for
their efforts, congratulations to them.
In tune up for the event last week, on
Tuesday, a 323 lb. yellowfin tuna was
caught from the panga Killer II with
skipper Chame Pino, in last week’s
report we mistaken did not mention the
angler who actually landed that fish,
this was local Los Cabos resident Jack
Dudenhoeffer. This week we had several
other cow sized tuna landed, including
Michael Aviani’s 220 lb., Miguel
Angeles with a 234 lb. tuna and Walter
Korbler with a 221 lb fish, all of
these taken off of the Gordo Banks.
Targeting the larger sized tuna
required lots of patience and
stockpiling larger quantities of bait,
sardinas, squid and chunks of skipjack
were all used, the majority of the
largest tuna were hooked on either
chunk of skipjack or strips of squid.
There were also nice sized tuna to over
100 lb. landed while fishing the San
Luis Bank, though that was tough
through much of the week due to north
winds, no big numbers of these larger
fish, but some anglers did account for
one, two and even three in one morning.
Most common sized tuna being caught
were more in the 7 to 15 lb. class,
these hit mostly of the sardinas, with
Iman Bank and Palmilla Point being hot
spot on particular days.
Dorado were much more scattered than
the tuna, limited numbers of these fish
were accounted for, more juvenile
sized, an occasional fish to 15 lb.
This is traditionally the peak time for
targeting wahoo, so far the action has
been random, not consistent day to day,
but for anglers specifically targeting
these gamefish, they were having
multiple chances and landed as many as
four per boat, though most felt
fortunate having one wahoo in the fish
box. They were hitting on both trolled
lures, such as Rapalas and also on trap
hooked baits, caballito and chihuil.
With the water temperature still
holding warm, we expect to have wahoo
in the area through next month as well.
Heavy pressure recently and wahoo can
prove to be one species that becomes
more elusive when large congregations
of boats are zooming around there
preferred feeding grounds.
Not much going off the bottom now, or
close to shore, that usually picks up
as water temperatures drop some. A few
sierra were caught this past week, also
miscellaneous pargo, snapper, but more
triggerfish than anything else.
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 270 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 2 black marlin, 58 wahoo, 14
sierra, 920 yellowfin tuna, 72 dorado,
3 amberjack, 1 yellowtail, 14 yellow
snapper, 18 huachinango, 22 Eastern
Pacific bonito, 65 white skipjack, 13
cabrilla, 3 barred pargo and 140
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
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May 12, 2019; 03:52PM - 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 –
November 5, 2017
Large crowds of vising tourists are
being greeted with pristine fall
conditions. Winds have been somewhat
unpredictable, at times from the north
and then from the south, but as this
week progressed conditions seemed to
improve, colder mornings that had
dipped into the 60s are now back into
the 70s and daytime highs are still
reaching into the upper 80s. Plenty of
warm sunshine for all. The season’s
final big tournament this week, the WON
Tuna Jackpot, attracted some 146 teams,
battling for high stakes, searching for
the largest yellowfin tuna, with other
jackpots for dorado and wahoo. Check
the WON web site for overall results.
Surprisingly there still have been
supplies of sardinas available, anglers
are also using slabs of squid, some
caballito, ballyhoo and chihuil as
well. Fleets have been searching in all
directions, as is common for this time
of year, local charters from San Jose
del Cabo have mainly been concentrating
on the fishing grounds from the Gordo
Banks to San Luis. Ocean water
temperature are now in the 81 to 85
degree range.
Most common species has been the
yellowfin tuna, sizes ranged from small
footballs up to 90 lb. plus, including
fish to over 300 lb. Tuning up for the
WON tournament local panga skipper
Chame Pino landed a 322 lb. yellowfin
on Tuesday off of the Gordo Banks,
while drift fishing with chunk bait
from skipjack. Iman Bank has held the
most numbers of schooling tuna, though
of the smaller sizes. San Luis has
produced tuna in the 70 to 90 lb.
class, while the Gordo Banks are the
grounds that have proved to the best
bet of hooking into a cow, though again
these big fish are not numerous, lots
of patience and chumming is involved.
Very heavy pressure now, as well as
once again we are into the full moon
phase, which can often cause the fish
to be even more sporadic and finicky.
Early in the week the wahoo bite showed
improvement, best spot being near Iman
Bank, slow trolling with chihuil was
the best technique, though these
baitfish are not easy to come by, the
wahoo also hit on rapalas at times,
though not like on the live bait. Wahoo
up to 45 lb. were brought in, some
boats landing as many as four, though
as the week progressed and the pressure
was increased the wahoo action also
tapered off. The water temperature is
just starting to drop some and as it
drops a few more degrees conditions
will be ideal for peak activity for
these prized gamefish.
Dorado are being found in limited
numbers, the largest we saw were in the
15 lb. range, striking on lures and
baits, no particular spot to
specifically target them. Billfish was
spotty as well, though some charters
did report better action later in the
week outside of Gordo Banks, where a
few blue and striped marlin were found.
Not much bottom action even being
targeted now, more triggerfish, bonito
and misc. pargo than anything else.
Water still warm for much inshore
action to start up, though it is a good
sign that schools of sardinas are still
in the area, despite the heavy
pressure.
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 144 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 2 blue marlin, 4 striped
marlin, 36 wahoo, 580 yellowfin tuna,
66 dorado, 8 yellow snapper, 22
huachinango, 24 Eastern Pacific bonito,
9 cabrilla, 5 barred pargo and 84
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
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May 12, 2019; 03:50PM - 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 –
October 29, 2017
Large crowds of anglers and visitors
alike are arriving in Los Cabos, as we
are now in the midst of the peak fall
season. This past week the huge story
was the Bisbee Black and Blue
Tournament, which is the highest paying
fishing tournament in the world, with
this year’s event attracting 120 teams
from across the globe, with over 800
participants. For final results you can
check on Bisbee’s web site. Swirling
winds from the north finally resided
late in the week, with prevailing clear
sunny skies and warmer than normal high
temperatures, this all made for ideal
conditions, actually still feeling
almost like summer.
Heavy pressure now on bait resources,
but so far supplies have held up,
though if wishing to obtain sardinas,
that meant traveling towards Chileno
and waiting each morning as netters
worked overtime to find enough bait to
go around. Other options were caballito
and slabs of squid. Some panga guides
are starting to scout out chihuil
options, as well as smaller sized
skipjack.
Sportfishing fleets, as well as
tournament teams, have been scouting
fishing grounds in all directions. For
fleets out of San Jose del Cabo,
thought much of the week they were
heading south towards Cabo San Lucas,
in order to find calmer waters, since
north winds had their normal grounds
from Gordo Banks to Vinorama all
stirred up and very choppy. Also with
the sardinas now being located close to
Cabo San Lucas, that is a long back
tack, to travel that far south to wait
around for sardinas and then motor back
to grounds such as Iman or San Luis
Banks, not a normal plan, this takes
way too much time, not to mention how
much extra fuel is needed. Charters
were fishing areas from the Hyatt,
Cabeza Ballena, Los Arcos and to el
Faro around the corner on the Pacific.
Main target species being the yellowfin
tuna. Drift fishing with sardinas was
the most productive technique, the tuna
were seen in flurries, at times proved
to be very finicky, catches ranged from
zero up to ten fish per boat, depending
where you happened to be at a given
time, lots of black skipjack were mixed
in with the yellowfin tuna. Average
size of the tuna were 5 to 10 lb.
though other larger fish were mixed in.
The biggest yellowfin tuna for the week
was taken Friday off of the Outer Gordo
Banks, angler Bob Deeter hooked into
the cow tuna while trolling a live
chihuil, after a crazy surface battle,
the fish actually expired and was
subdued in relatively easier than
normal manner. Back at the docks the
yellowfin weighed in at 304 lb.
Dorado were very scarce early in the
week off of San Jose del Cabo grounds,
better chances were found trolling in
Pacific waters, though later in the
week we saw more dorado showing up,
still not in significant numbers, but
at least somewhat encouraging. Sizes
ranged up to 15 lb. Wahoo action
finally showed much more activity later
in the week, as ocean conditions calmed
down and charters were able to
comfortably work areas such as the Iman
Bank. With a slight change in climate
as well, this seemed to trigger the
wahoo. Many boats reported having six
or more chances of wahoo strikes, most
on baitfish such as chihuil or
caballito. Other reported strikes on
skirted lead heads and Rapalas. Of
course as is usual with wahoo fishing,
a higher percentage of strikes were
lost, as compared with actually wahoo
being landed. Several charters had two
or three wahoo in the box, at least one
had four. Sizes were not huge, but
average of about 20 to 25 lb..
Bottom action was limited, one 60 lb.
amberjack was accounted for, but only
sporadic catches of snapper, cabrilla
and triggerfish were reported. This is
not the normal season for that type of
fishing, with more surface action going
on, nor has much at all been reported
close along the beach stretches.
Billfish was spread out, but the
tournaments have found a respectable
number of qualifying black and blue
marlin that have passed the 300 lb.
minimal weight limits, Not many striped
marlin now, water too warm for them,
with temperatures now averaging 84 to
85 degrees.
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 162 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 3 blue marlin, 1 black
marlin, 28 wahoo, 4 amberjack, 215
yellowfin tuna, 75 dorado, 11 yellow
snapper, 34 huachinango, 2 pompano, 18
Eastern Pacific bonito, 13 cabrilla
(leopard grouper), 6 barred pargo and
96 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
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May 12, 2019; 03:48PM - 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 –
October 22, 2017
This week is traditionally really the
time when things become very busy for
local sportfishing fleets and sure
enough the crowds have arrived in
force, almost to capacity levels. The
high stake billfish and yellowfin tuna
tournaments are in progress, with the
granddaddy of all events, the Bisbee
Black Blue, scheduled for this next
week. Weather conditions are near ideal
now, though we have felt warmer than
usual conditions recently, just the
past couple of days we saw early
mornings just slightly cooler, still in
the 70s. We do believe the next couple
of weeks should have pristine
conditions. Ocean water temperatures
have remained warm as well, with most
of the region averaging from 85 to 88
degrees. Clean blue water now within a
couple of miles from shore, swells were
moderate, though slightly increased
with the recent higher tidal swings,
larger waves make it more difficult for
the bait netters to safely reach where
the schooling sardinas are. Most days
they were able to find sufficient
supplies of the sardinas, with schools
found off of Palmilla, near marina
jetties, as well as north near
Vinorama. Squid has been the other bait
that is being offered and if possible
it is best to obtain both sardinas and
slabs of squid in order to increase
your chances, the more the better. This
is always the time frame when bait
supplies feel the heaviest demand, we
will cross our fingers that supplies
hold up throughout the fall season.
This week we saw scattered numbers of
dorado up to 20 lb. accounted for, but
as the week progressed we saw much
fewer dorado, hard to say what the deal
with that is. Only a handful of wahoo
were reported for the entire fleet,
warmer than usual water temperatures
help make wahoo more sluggish. As
currents cool down to the 80 degree
range this will usually trigger more
activity out of these highly sought
after gamefish.
Most consistent action was for
yellowfin tuna, bite was more hit or
miss that the previous week, heavy
pressure and long waits to obtain bait,
just part of the factors that come into
play this time of year. Best action was
found near San Luis Banks. Though other
areas also produced. The yellowfin were
striking on sardinas and strips of
squid while drift fishing over the
grounds, sizes of the tuna ranged from
5 lb. footballs up to 100 lb.
specimens. Catches varied from a few
fish per boat, to easy limits, some
days we saw a higher percentage of
yellowfin in the 30 to 80 lb. class,
while other days more numbers of
smaller fish, with a handful of larger
fish weighed in. Lots of tuna now in
the area, though they can become even
more finicky with increased angling
pressure.
Very little billfish action reported,
though tournaments teams are landing a
few and there is definitely the chance
that someone will be hooking into a big
black or blue marlin during the big
buck events. No inshore action to
report, such as sierra or roosterfish,
some big jack crevalle hanging around
the marina jetty area. Off the bottom
there was only sporadic catches of
various pargo, cabrilla, bonito,
pompano, amberjack and triggerfish
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 185 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 1 blue marlin, 1 black
marlin, 3 sailfish, 4 wahoo, 6
amberjack, 880 yellowfin tuna, 78
dorado, 28 yellow snapper, 54
huachinango, 6 pompano, 95 Eastern
Pacific bonito, 9 cabrilla (leopard
grouper), 12 barred pargo and 140
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
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Oct 12, 2017; 06:41PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo October 8, 2017
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
October 8, 2017
We are now seeing increasing numbers of tourists and visiting anglers
arrive in Los Cabos, as the fall season is now underway, in another couple
of weeks things will be crazy busy.. Weather patterns have settled down,
calmer days, though still quite warm and humid due to low pressure systems
forming further to the south, none of this is expected to have any impact
with land, just makes it more humid and tropical, increase in swell
expected over the weekend. The Baja landscape has definitely transformed to
lush green foliage.
The majority of the fleets based out of Puerto Los Cabos Marina are now
fishing the grounds from the Gordo Banks to Iman, San Luis and Vinorama.
Bait options have included sardinas, caballito and slabs of squid. Most
consistent action recently was for yellowfin tuna, drift fishing with
various baits was the main technique and average size yellowfin was in the
6 to 15 lb. class, though these same grounds have produced larger tuna in
the 30 to 100 lb. range, though there were no big numbers of the larger
grade tuna, just mixed in with the smaller fish. Though there is definitely
a chance at hooking into a bigger fish. The largest Yellowfin reported
this week was taken on Friday by Frank Harbin, from Chico, Ca., while
fishing with Gordo Banks Pangas skipper Jesus Pino, the tuna weighed in
after a long three hour battle and having died down deep, then slowly
inched towards the surface. All around the numbers of fish caught increased
this week.
Dorado remained scattered and in limited quantity, most fish were under ten
pounds, only an occasional larger specimen accounted for. A few more wahoo
starting to be seen, most of these came from the San Luis Bank area and
were striking on Rapalas. Sizes ranged 20 to 35 lb. Though still no
significant numbers. Ocean water temperatures now in the 82 to 85 degree
range, when it cools down a few more degrees that usually helps make the
wahoo more active.
Minimal bottom action going on, an occasional red snapper, pargo,
amberjack, leopard grouper or triggerfish. Not a lot of billfish action
going on, but the anglers that did specifically target these, there were a
couple of black marlin landed this past week, other blue and blacks were
seen chasing hooked tuna, so even though these billfish are not being found
in big numbers, they were in the area, just need a lot of patience if
looking to hook into one.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 114 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 2 black marlin, 12 wahoo, 4 rainbow runner, 4
amberjack, 630 yellowfin tuna, 38 dorado, 1 sailfish, 5 yellow snapper, 23
huachinango, 8 cabrilla (leopard grouper), 2 barred pargo and 110
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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Oct 12, 2017; 06:39PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo September 24, 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 –
September 24, 2017
Last week we were preoccupied following Tropical Storm Norma, local Ports
were shut down for three days, Saturday thru Monday, due to higher storm
swells, though the storm stalled and veered further off to the west and
never did impact land. Hardly any rainfall at all was reported in Los Cabos
and we felt 30 mph wind gusts, but basically we dodged a bullet this time.
We have now officially started the fall season, though with the high
humidity it still feels more like summer. Light crowds the past couple of
weeks, with people being more nervous about traveling during possibility of
storms moving through the area.
Fishing action has been mainly centered on the Gordo Banks and north to
Iman Bank. Early in the week water clarity was greenish near Iman and the
better action was found on the Gordo Banks, most common catches were for
yellowfin tuna in the 50 to 100 lb. class, drift fishing with strips of
sardinas, no big numbers of tuna being landed, though at times lots of
yellowfin could be seen breezing the surface, just very finicky in striking
the baits that had hooks in them. Anglers were doing well to land one or
two of these quality tuna. Later in the week bait suppliers found some
sardinas off the beach stretches further to the north and with the water
cleaning up on the Iman Bank the medium sized tuna in the 5 lb. to 30 lb.
range bit well there. Also some dorado in the mix, but most all under ten
pounds and not nearly as numerous as before the most recent storm system
passed by.
Some days the yellowfin tuna were more active early in the day, especially
on the Gordo Banks, but then things switched around and more action on
these grounds was found later in the day. Tuna of 170 lb., 238 lb. and
another close to 300 lb. were accounted for by groups of local anglers,
specifically targeting these larger tuna, putting in long extra hours and
bringing ample supplies of slabs of squid to continue chumming throughout
the day.
Anglers using yo-yo style jigs had mixed success on various red snapper,
pargo and amberjack, no big numbers, but a few nice fish accounted for, a
handful of nice yellowfin were also hooked into on these jigs.
Not much billfish action reported, though this week most anglers were
targeting the tuna or dorado action. There was a lack of skipjack and other
baitfish on the grounds early in the week, but as the week progressed and
water conditions stabilized, there was more bait schools being reported.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 46 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 1 wahoo, 44 dorado, 1 blue marlin, 3 rainbow
runner, 9 amberjack, 144 yellowfin tuna, 4 yellow snapper, 25 huachinango
and 85 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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Oct 12, 2017; 06:35PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo September 17, 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 –
September 17, 2017
Now in the final weeks of the summer season, we are seeing lighter crowds
of tourists, as families are now getting settled into the start of the new
Fall School semester. This is now peak time for tropical storms to develop
and potentially strike the Los Cabos area, this week is the three year
anniversary of the incredibly destructive Hurricane Odile. Two weeks ago we
felt the impact of a direct hit by TS Lidia, clean up and rebuilding is an
ongoing process. This week we have been following three separate tropical
systems off to the south of Southern Baja, Hurricane Max is now dissipating
as it made landfall in Southern Mexico, the other low pressure area off to
the west is not doing much, weakening and is circling far away from land.
The storm we are now carefully watching is Tropical Storm Norma, forecast
to reach category 1 hurricane status over the weekend. This system is
presently moving very slowly and gaining strength, latest forecast has
showed it veering further off the west, off of Todo Santos, but ii is
unpredictable exactly what path Norma will follow. So precautious
preparations are necessary, we are expecting storm surf surges to increase
as large as 15 ft. to 20 ft. on Sunday, hopefully not too high of winds and
surely we will have rainfall, hopefully nothing like the 27 plus inches we
endured from TS Lidia.
Calm conditions prevailed this past week, light winds in the afternoons,
mostly clear skies, very high humidity, slightly cooler temperatures at
night, with daytime heat index averaging 100 degrees. Ocean water
temperature has cooled slightly over the past couple of weeks, now
averaging 84 to 86 degrees. Off colored greenish currents are swirling
throughout the region, varied clarity in certain areas from day to day.
Most of the floating debris from the storm wash out has now dissipated.
The fishing has been on and off ever since the passing of Lidia, there were
good numbers of dorado found, though the majority were juvenile sized, an
occasional fish over 15 lb. Dorado were found in schools throughout the
region while trolling medium sized lures. Also they world readily strike on
a variety of bait.
Bait suppliers were able to find sardinas near shore early in the week and
along with strips of squid, these were the main bait options available. We
expect sardinas will not be obtainable over the weekend with high storm
swells, but as those reside hopefully sardina supplies will return and
remain steady. Yellowfin tuna were being found from the Gordo Banks and
towards the Iman Bank, action was sporadic, from scratchy to wide open,
depended a lot on clarity and currents that were running at a given time.
Often the yellowfin tuna were seen boiling on the surface, but they proved
to be finicky, some days biting right off the bat early, then slim
pickings, coming back up late, hard to predict. Average size tuna was in
the 10 to 15 lb. class, yellowfin tuna to over 50 lb. were accounted for,
though numbers were limited. Reports of tuna to 100 lb. seen in the mix,
though the larger grade of tuna have not been striking much. The majority
of all tuna action was found while drift fishing with strips of squid or
sardinas.
Only a handful of wahoo strikes reported, more of them lost than actually
landed. We expect when the water temperatures cool off a bit more and we
see cleaner blue water back close to shore, that wahoo activity will
improve. Billfish were scattered, a few sailfish, striped, blue and black
marlin hook ups reported, though we only had limited numbers of angler
visiting now and most of these were preferring to target species such as
tuna and dorado. No bottom or inshore action to really report on, besides a
few red snapper and triggerfish.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 49 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 1 black marlin, 6 sailfish, 12 white skipjack,
155 dorado, 3 wahoo, 170 yellowfin tuna, 5 yellow snapper, 14 huachinango
and 42 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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Oct 12, 2017; 06:31PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo August 27, 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 –
August 27, 2017
There were greater crowds of anglers arriving this past week, possibly
taking advantage of the calm weather patterns and wide open yellowfin tuna
action. With no new tropical storms having developed on the horizon at this
time, all looks okay for the coming days. This time of year the weather can
change quickly, so you have to work when the conditions are favorable.
Tropical conditions continue, high humidity, scattered cloud cover, light
winds, calm ocean swells, all making for great conditions offshore for
anglers.
Charters have been relying on slabs of squid and live sardinas for bait,
surprising to actually see the sardinas this time of year, usually these
baitfish would be scattered by this late in the summer, mainly due to
higher surf conditions and too warm of water temperatures for their liking.
Surf conditions have been unusually light recently, this has given the
commercial bait fleet more opportunities to net the schooling sardinas.
The main action this past week was for the yellowfin tuna, an influx of
smaller sized fish in the 10 to 15 lb. class dominated the bite on the Iman
Bank, where fleets from as far as way as Buena Vista have been getting in
on this action. Best bet was drift fishing with free lined sardinas, limits
were the rule. Mixed in with the football sized tuna were white skipjack up
to 8 lb. and an occasional much larger yellowfin tuna in the 50 to 80 lb.
class, though those were few and far between. One tuna in the 150 lb. class
was also reported early in the week off of the Gordo Banks. This time of
year we would expect more numbers of quality sized tuna, we do believe they
are still in the area, but are hanging lower in the water column perhaps,
not wanting to compete with the greater number of smaller tuna, who knows
what is up with that.
With all of the yellowfin tuna around there have been more reports of black
and blue marlin being hooking into, early in the week there was one black
marlin brought into the scale that weighed in at
547 lb. Others in the 200 to 250 lb. range were also landed. Most of these
marlin strikes came while slow trolling larger baits, such as skipjack or
yellowfin tuna.
Only a couple of wahoo strikes were reported all week, these fish are just
not very active now in the warmer waters. Though we did see fair numbers of
dorado spread throughout the region, striking on trolled lures and various
baits. Average size for these fish was under 10 lb., with some exceptions
reaching up close to 20 lb.
This week we saw more dogtooth snapper than we have seen all summer, still
no significant numbers, but at least we are seeing them. These fish hit
while anglers were drift fishing and targeting yellowfin tuna, snapper up
to 45 lb. were landed, the Inner Gordo Bank produced the majority, but
others were also hooked into on the grounds from La Fortuna to the Iman
Bank.
Not much inshore fishing being done now, this action does usually fade out
this late in the season. Most fishing activity is now centered on the high
spots offshore.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 85 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 6 black marlin, 3 blue marlin, 2 striped marlin,
3 sailfish, 162 dorado,1 wahoo,9 dogtooth snapper, 8 yellow snapper, 660
yellowfin tuna, 125 white skipjack, 5 barred pargo, 13 leopard grouper, 1
pinto cabrilla, 13 huachinango, 5 amberjack and 44 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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