GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
April 21, 2019
This is a busy week locally, Easter
vacation time, many businesses shut
down for the extended weekend holiday
to be with family along the various
beaches. We have not seen that many
tourists arriving, who knows why, but
seems to be much lighter than we would
normally expect. Weather is back on a
warming trend, highs of about 85
degrees, we felt unpredictable winds
early in the week, coming from various
directions, ocean water temperatures
cooled down to 68 degrees, also
greenish current pushed in. That time
of year ocean conditions can vary
greatly from week to week. Should
settle down in coming weeks as warm
calmer weather prevails.
Some quality sized sardinas showed up
in the local marina channel area,
nicest we have seen in a long time,
also some moonfish and caballito. Best
action was found from Palmilla Point
north to La Fortuna, Iman and San Luis
Banks. Mainly working the bottom
structure with yo-yo jigs and various
baits. Good numbers of the Eastern
Pacific Bonito, some red snapper,
cabrilla, pargo and amberjack rounding
out catches. Catches of course varied
day to day as to where the better
action was found and at times wind was
a factor as well.
Early week we did see a few yellowfin
tuna in the 30 to 50 lb. range brought
in, but since we have not seen any
more, neither did we see dorado, wahoo
or marlin. As conditions rebound these
species should start to appear more
regularly in the daily fish counts.
We also saw more numbers of sierra in
recent days, the sardinas were the
reason for this, sizes were also
impressive, many fish over 5 lb. were
accounted for. The Palmilla, Red Hill
area was one of the better locations to
find the schooling sierra. With the
cooler water it was hard to find any
roosterfish, this should change in the
coming weeks.
Late in the season now, but whales were
still being seen daily, maybe the
colder water is keeping them around
longer, because the majority of these
mammals are now well on their way
north, migrating to their summer
feeding grounds off of Alaska.
The combined sportfishing fleet out of
the panga area from Puerto Los Cabos
Marina reported an estimated 62
charters for the week and anglers
reported an approximate fish count of:
3 yellowfin tuna, 16 leopard grouper, 3
broomtail grouper, 155 bonito, 46 red
snapper, 2 barred pargo, 4 African
pompano, 12 yellow snapper, 8
amberjack, 72 sierra and 80
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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