Is This A Peacock?!

[Trickerie]

Caught this today totally randomly... In our backyard in west palm beach!!!

[SirSnookalot]

No.........that's a Mayan cichlid, they are awesome fighters for their little size. Great fun on ul with a roostertail or crappie jig.

[00 mod]

Some kind of Chiclid? Doesnt look like a peacock to me!

Jeff

[SoFlaBassAddict]

No.........that's a Mayan cichlid, they are awesome fighters for their little size. Great fun on ul with a roostertail or crappie jig.

Exactly correct. Just another invasive species to Southern Florida waters. Fun fish to catch on light tackle. Supposedly not a bad fish to eat either.

[Trickerie]

Weird. Those and what looks like tilapia seem rampant in one of the two lakes. I'd like to snag a tilapia and blacken it lol

[MCS]

Talapia are in Fl too, they are a cichlid as well. All the larger cichlids you can catch in Fl are decent to eat, it is also erged by Florida fish and wildlife to not release the invasive species, so grill away LOL

[BassHunter954]

well a few people i know call them african brim dont know why..

[SirSnookalot]

well a few people i know call them african brim dont know why..

Tilapia originally came from Africa, Mayan cichlids are from Central America and peacocks from South America.

[Bassn Blvd]

_{Talapia are in Fl too, they are a cichlid as well. All the larger cichlids you can catch in Fl are decent to eat, it is also erged by Florida fish and wildlife to not release the invasive species, so grill away LOL}

_{100% correct. Kill those bastar**. Kill, Kill, Kill.}

[South FLA]

Caught this today totally randomly... In our backyard in west palm beach!!!

Great resource:

http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/freshwater-fish/

[GLADES]

A lot of the Talapia sold in stores are harvested from Lake Victoria, which is in Africa..so says my fish monger..

[bocabasser]

that is a fat snickers bar to a snook

[Diggy]

They love kvs 1.5s and they pull drag like Eddie Murphy on Hollywood Blvd