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               15 Jan 2015 -   GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo  January 11, 2015
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                        GORDO BANKS PANGAS
 San Jose del Cabo
 
 January 11, 2015
 
 
 
 After one week of colder weather patterns we have now seen the winds calm
 down and a return to pristine conditions, clear skies and warm sunshine,
 with highs of 80 degrees. Incredibly ideal, considering the freezing
 forecast across much of United States and Canada. Crowds are relatively
 light now, as is normal right after the holiday season, great time to
 visit, airfares have dropped and the Los Cabos area has made impressive
 rebuilding headway, most areas are now back to normal, pre-hurricane status.
 
 
 
 The colder currents pushing in the last couple of weeks have dropped ocean
 water temperatures into the 74 to 77 degree range, which would still be
 considered warmer than average by several degrees for this time frame. The
 cooler currents also brought in greenish colored water, which in turn
 scattered the pelagic gamefish, but now conditions are rebounding and
 opened up more options for anglers.
 
 
 
 Anglers are using sardinas to fish close to shore and are catching good
 numbers of sierra, ranging to as large as eight pounds, these sierra were
 also striking on trolled hoochies and Rapalas. These fish, in the mackerel
 family, do prefer the cooler water. A mix of shallow water structure
 species are now becoming more prevalent as well, pargo, of several
 varieties, cabrilla, triggerfish, pompano, island jack, porgy, bonito, mero
 hawkfish, even sheephead, as well as and others, all very good eating fish,
 striking on various baits, as well as jigs.
 
 
 
 Dorado were very scattered, but handful are being accounted for every day,
 most were under 15 pounds. Only a few smaller sized wahoo were reported,
 these were found in the direction of Cabo San Lucas. Yellowfin tuna had
 become very scarce during the windy days, but in recent days we have seen
 some nice yellowfin being accounted for from the Inner Gordo Bank, as well
 as from areas further north, near Vinorama. These tuna ranged in the 20 to
 50 pound class, nice for winter time fish. Anglers were using sardinas,
 strips of squid and chunks of skipjack to entice these tuna. No great
 numbers, but there was a chance at catching several.
 
 
 
 The striped marlin action continued off of San Jose del Cabo, anywhere from
 3 to 6 miles offshore is where most of this action was taking place,
 concentrations of baitfish have been attracting the billfish and anglers
 were trolling and drift fishing with live baits, as well as casting into
 feeding fish when the opportunities arose.
 
 
 
 If the weather conditions how it is at this time, we could all be in for
 some great winter action, hard to predict, but last year we had warm water
 all winter and chances are this season might be the same.
 
 
 
 Many more whales are now arriving for their winter stay in the Southern
 Baja region, other attractions included manta rays, seas lions and
 porpoise.
 
 
 
 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: 18 striped marlin, 3 wahoo, 27 dorado, 24
 bonito, 15 white skipjack, 49 yellowfin tuna,140 sierra, 13 roosterfish, 1
 sheephead, 15 porgy, 4 hawkfish, 65 various pargo, 8 island jack, 7
 amberjack, 22 cabrilla and 30 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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