Finally Caught Fish (But What Kind?)

[rvadog]

Went out around noon today. Caught a small peacock on a lizard and then got skunked for about an hour. I broke down and bought some nightcrawlers at Dick's. Just threw a nightcrawler on a hook and tossed it in my local canal. Caught 4-5 small peacocks, a super skinny LMB and a mystery fish. The fish had a LMB type mouth, vertical stripes but the most prominent feature was spots all over its body. Oh, and teeth! Two small, pointy teeth in its lower jaw, possibly more in upper.

[BassinLou]

Jaquar capote. They are pretty.

[BassinLou]

Here is a pic of one. I caught it in May.

 

[AK-Jax86]

I have never seen that fish before that's pretty cool

[BassinLou]

They do not get very big, and we have a lot of these down here. Just one of our many exotics

[CountBassula]

Went out around noon today. Caught a small peacock on a lizard and then got skunked for about an hour. I broke down and bought some nightcrawlers at Dick's. Just threw a nightcrawler on a hook and tossed it in my local canal. Caught 4-5 small peacocks, a super skinny LMB and a mystery fish. The fish had a LMB type mouth, vertical stripes but the most prominent feature was spots all over its body. Oh, and teeth! Two small, pointy teeth in its lower jaw, possibly more in upper.

 

When I see you say noon, and skunked, I'm not surprised. In my opinion you're not going to catch much in terms of LMB at high noon in this heat (it was hot as hell yesterday) and zero overcast (there were no clouds over coral springs). I went out yesterday at 6pm and fished till 8:30pm. I got 15 or so bass and 2 snakeheads, all on lizards and brush hogs :-)

 

you're lucky to have peacock bass where you are, ever since i saw how beautiful they are i wanted to catch one but don't feel like driving south, and i don't think there are any in Coral Springs :-(

 

Anyways, i'm on vacation till the end of the month and go fishing almost every evening starting around 6pm. if you feel like driving up few miles I can take you to some spots that usually produce good for me :-) oh yea, i'll be testing a new spot tomorrow (have guests coming over at 4pm to day so no fishing, booo!) near middle school down the street, let me know if you're game!

 

M.

[rvadog]

Heck yeah man. When I see what work looks like this week I'll hit you up. Thanks a lot.

[CountBassula]

Heck yeah man. When I see what work looks like this week I'll hit you up. Thanks a lot.

 

OK NP! I'm baby sitting tomorrow night, but I'm free for the rest of the week, and will be going fishing Tuesday evening around 6pm. Let me know when you're game and we can hang out, I'll show you some spots, my secret baits and techniques ;-)