bassinOUT89 Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Went out today for a good ol skunkin. Hit up markham park and fished both the L35A and G15. Not a single bite. Went closer to home and fished the C14, had one chaser on a fluke but no commit. Anyone else had trouble today or just me? Quote
Joedodge Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 I also did fished Walsingham lake in largo. And a new small canal no notes not even a follow. Just saw a lot of tilapia Quote
SFL BassHunter Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Went out to the trail today. Caught two after hours of trying different things. I knew the bass were out there, I could see them. I finally got a hook up on a bright chartreus crank and after about 2 hours of frogging I got one on a brown frog. Unfortunately I lost them both as I got them near the bank. But it was a tough day. Quote
Joedodge Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Man I haven't seen bass in known decent spots in a couple weeks. Just tilapia everywhere! Ugh! Quote
SFL BassHunter Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Joe the interesting thing is where I was catching bass on the trail at the end of last month is now full of sucker fish and no bass. I've found them again but I can't get them to bite anything. Last month the Watermelon Red Sticko was working like a charm. This month its just a worthless plastic attached to a hook lol Quote
Joedodge Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Lol I forgot the sucker fish man I'm seeing a lot of them in the canals also. Man that's a great color and bait I can't believe they won't bite on it Quote
zachb34 Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 I did well today caught 3 within a half hour in the canal behind my house. I broke my brand new veracity setting the hook on a 4.5 pounder (First fish). Went inside grabbed my Loomis and caught two more. The key for me was to throw a light jig with a big trailer into the deeper part of the canal and not the banks. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted March 29, 2015 Super User Posted March 29, 2015 I've been struggling with both bass and inshore fish the last week or so, I did catch 3 peacocks Thursday and Friday. After being skunked again in the ICW Saturday hit one of my local ponds, caught 5 bass on an xrap in about an hour, size wasn't bad. Quote
ThomasFengler Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Fished yesterday (Sunday) and found a couple good sized peacocks (4lb biggest) and a few largemouths (2lb biggest) in the C14 canal system caught on a MirrOLure mirrODean Quote
juan_LMB Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 What's up guys. I haven't been on here in a while. Been away from fishing a while as well. I'm getting back into the motions and the swing of things but I've only caught one fish in the last 3 trips. I'm throwing trick worms, brush hogs (caught the one on him at holiday park swimming just underneath the water surface. about 2lb'r). I see everyone else is struggling so at least it's not the operator hahaha. Trying to plan a holiday park trip out soon. Anyone trying to split boat rental, I'm down. Let's rip some before the heat wave come take over. Quote
juan_LMB Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 What are peacocks fav lure, btw? I see a lot of those in these massive canals. They never hit my plastics. I've been hearing cranks Quote
Gotfishyfingers? Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Fished yesterday (Sunday) and found a couple good sized peacocks (4lb biggest) and a few largemouths (2lb biggest) in the C14 canal system caught on a MirrOLure mirrODean Nice the peacocks of that size are populating C-14 again.. Quote
Gotfishyfingers? Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 What are peacocks fav lure, btw? I see a lot of those in these massive canals. They never hit my plastics. I've been hearing cranks Topwater prop bait or a suspending jerkbait. Quote
ThomasFengler Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 What are peacocks fav lure, btw? I see a lot of those in these massive canals. They never hit my plastics. I've been hearing cranks Attention grabbers- rattle trap, heddon torpedo, suspending twitch bait or jerkbait. All of those things seem to work for me Quote
Super User SoFlaBassAddict Posted March 31, 2015 Super User Posted March 31, 2015 What are peacocks fav lure, btw? I see a lot of those in these massive canals. They never hit my plastics. I've been hearing cranks Something flashy, fast moving, and aggressively fished. Peacocks will hit plastics on occasion, but you'd fare far better with a hard bait. Small jerk baits can be downright fun in a canal filled with Peacocks. Quote
Super User SoFlaBassAddict Posted March 31, 2015 Super User Posted March 31, 2015 Went out Saturday afternoon/evening to Holiday. Plenty of fish to be caught, finding the bigger bites is the hard part. Cichlids and sunfish are still bedding. Great way to set the hook a bunch and get disappointed when you drag back a plastic with no claws left on it. 1 Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted March 31, 2015 Super User Posted March 31, 2015 Peacocks will hit anything a bass does, I've caught them using a black marabou jig. Peacocks can be aggressive and will nail anything or quite passive, then they have to be "teased", that's when the jigs work well. A lure I've had success with is a Mirrolure twitchbait, Catch jr. for peas and bass, Catch 2000 for inshore species. Quote
SFL BassHunter Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 What are peacocks fav lure, btw? I see a lot of those in these massive canals. They never hit my plastics. I've been hearing cranks I caught a peacock at sundown on a black and blue swim jig with a big 3 inch big bite swimming craw as a trailer. Swimming it real fast. I also caught one on a tiny spinner bait. The One in the pics was with the Jig. I just saw SirSnooks comment so I am editing this. Yes it does seem like the jig is great to anger them perhaps. I noticed them schooling up as the sun dropped till there was a big dark spot in the water. I knew they were peas because one had broke out and went after a crank but didn't follow through. I am so used to the start stop of largemouth fishing that my instinct was to slow down the crank. Fail. Keep it going fast, they hate it when it stops and will just turn away. So I threw 2 other cranks their way each time on the sides of the school. Finally I switched to the jig and 1 pass with that forced the one I caught to break out and just wack the crap out of the jig. This 3 pounder put up a better fight than my PB largemouth of 4 lbs. They are amazing to catch, very fun and there is no quit in them. A largemouth get tired, peas just keep on keeping on. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted April 1, 2015 Super User Posted April 1, 2015 When the peas are active and chasing bait I using a moving lure, top waters, hard jerkbaits, spinner baits, or twitchbait. Not active it's the crappie jig. I fish a place where the "staff" fishes for peas every morning. They fish daybreak with Walmart combos and roostertails, very successful at catching them. I've done well myself at daybreak once the weather heats up. Quote
I.rar Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 My most productive peacock lures are marabou or float and fly Jigs, weightless super fluke Jr's, spooks/poppers and floating rapalas. Quote
Shanes7614 Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Devils horse. YouTube the video of them in the Amazon hitting them as well. EXPLOSIVE!!!! Quote
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