Gordo Banks Pangas Fish Report January 11, 2019

San Jose del Cabo Anglers – January 11, 2019

There were more numbers of tourists arriving, despite that this is the
time school semesters resume and holiday vacation time is over. The
weather patterns seemed to have stabilized some, warmer conditions, at
least the lows were not in the mid-50s like they were previous week.
Scattered cloud cover, highs of 80 degrees. Ocean swells were moderate
and winds from the norther finally laid down, water clarity improved and
ocean temperature was in the

72 to 75 degree range.

Bait options remained much the same, live caballito being netted in the
marina area, no sardinas to be found, ballyhoo and slabs of squid also
available. Another option was to try and catch chihuil on the Inner
Gordo Bank, this proved the hot ticket the first half of the week.

Billfish still have been more active on the Pacific, but they are now
being found off the San Jose del Cabo grounds as well, as mackerel and
sardineta baitfish schools are now shifting in this direction. The
striped marlin were striking on various lures as well as baits,
averaging 70 to 100 lb.

The highlight of the week was the wide open wahoo action encountered on
Monday and Tuesday off of Punta Gorda. Of course with so many people in
the area, the word gets outs in a hurry and no secret bite can be
sustained, everyone and their brother was out trying to get in on this
action. Water also turned off a bit on Wednesday, tuning greenish and
between that and all of the pressure the bite tapered off. The best bet
for these wahoo was on slow trolled live chihuil, which more often are
not a guarantee to obtain. This was a new group of wahoo, appeared to be
a spawning run, many of these fish were in the 40 to 50 lb. range, some
over 50 lb. Many charters were landing two to four or more wahoo, losing
at least as many other strikes. Dorado were found on these same inshore
grounds, but were not as numerous as were the wahoo, though once found
they were a higher percentage of actually landing, dorado weighed in the
10 to 20 lb. class.

Bottom action was scare, more triggerfish than anything else, an
occasional cabrilla or pargo. The currents were strong and most anglers
were preferring to target more glamorous surface species as long as they
were still prevalent.

The yellowfin tuna action has dropped way off, only action reported has
been by the local commercial pangeros fishing late in the afternoon on
the Gordo Banks, they have had yellowfin in the 60 to 90 lb. range
practically every day, no huge numbers, but enough to keep them working
at, all of this action was on various baits, chihuil, chunk of
caballito, skipjack or squid.

Very little action reported for sierra or roosterfish, once again, just
not many people trying that now, especially without live sardinas
available, limits inshore options during the winter season. We are
optimistic that if weather allows, that the wahoo will be in the region
through this month.

The combined sportfishing fleet out of the panga area from Puerto Los
Cabos Marina reported an estimated 78 charters for the week and anglers
reported an approximate fish count of: 8 striped marlin, 72 dorado,3
yellowfin tuna, 76 wahoo, 14 bonito, 12 red snapper, 5 cabrilla (leopard
grouper), 8 yellow snapper, 15 tijareta, 5 sierra and 65 triggerfish.

Good Fishing, Eric

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Address: San Jose Del Cabo, Los Cabos, BCS. Mexico
Phone U.S. (619) 488-1859 Mexico: (624) 142-1147
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