Saturday 12-19-09 : Bass Fishing and Mayan Cichlid

[SW Florida Kid]

I went bass fishing today and caught three bass. I had a good time.

3 Bass and 2 Mayan Cichlids

It was cold and windy. I fished off of the side of the pond. I got one on the first cast. That's always a sign of a good day. I think I found me a new fishing spot to add to my list of ponds.

Bass #1

Bass #2

Bass #3

Mayan Cichlid #1

Mayan Cichlid #2

[Thai]

Those are oscars but nice catches regardless bro

keep it up

[SW Florida Kid]

Those are oscars but nice catches regardless bro

keep it up

Thanks man. I try ;-)

THey were mayan cichlids... they are a non-native species that flood the area here. They all have a black spot on the tail fin. That's the give away to identifying mayan cichlid. THey are great eating too!

[soccplayer07]

i agree i thought your first post pics looked like oscars however after seeing you second post they definitely are not oscars.

[Thai]

The one in the second post is infact a Myan but the first two were oscars, trust me bro, I've been keeping cichlids for over 13 years, lots of cichlids have the eye spots on the tails you are refering to.

Oscar

Your "mayan"

[SW Florida Kid]

The one in the second post is infact a Myan but the first two were oscars, trust me bro, I've been keeping cichlids for over 13 years, lots of cichlids have the eye spots on the tails you are refering to.

They were mayans... i took those pics with my crappy cell phone. But they had the black dots on their tails. Really slimy fish, skitzo, and have small little teeth... i've never seen an oscar here before. I love to catch bass and mayans tho.

[soccplayer07]

i have to ask...the pic in your avatar shows a "glass" boat that you ran ashore...that is nuts. any problems with the glass afterwards???

[Thai]

Sorry bro but as a hobbyist I wont let you win this one haha

Thats an oscar look at the round face and lack of vertical bars

Please Andrew or Dave chime in here

[SW Florida Kid]

I just googled oscars... wikipedia says they are cichlids too. They are all the same... but the ones I caught were mayans.. that's all we catch some days. lol

[SW Florida Kid]

i have to ask...the pic in your avatar shows a "glass" boat that you ran ashore...that is nuts. any problems with the glass afterwards???

I didnt run it in to the shore... i got out and gently put it on the shore.. im so careful with my "Sea Guppy"

[SW Florida Kid]

Sorry bro but as a hobbyist I wont let you win this one haha

Thats an oscar look at the round face and lack of vertical bars

Please Andrew or Dave chime in here

YOu cant see the vertical bars that well at all because my cell phone pics are crappy... but they did have vertical bars.. trust me. They had vertical bars, slimy body, 1 inch thick body, 9 inches long, red spots on the tail.

[soccplayer07]

i have quite the cichlid collection as well. i have to agree with Thai. although i will say the pictures are quite poor in the first post.

[Thai]

I just googled oscars... wikipedia says they are cichlids too. They are all the same... but the ones I caught were mayans.. that's all we catch some days. lol

......cichlids are in fact not all the same, you have thousands of differnt kinds in north/central, and south america and than there are rift lakes, african streams and madagascan cichlids

not the same

just like a mayan is not an oscar

[SW Florida Kid]

Hey Thai... ur funny man. THe pictures do look like oscars on the internet and everything... but if you saw them in real life, they looked totally different. I wish I took them with my actual camera instead of a cell phone. haha. Amazing how different a fish can look when you take a pic with a distorted phone camera.

[Thai]

haha thanks and please dont take this the wrong way, just as a hobbyist I have to win this one because allthough how bad of a picture you took body shape does not lie, oscars have a more rounded body and does not display a sloping head like a mayan which is an amphilopus species btw 

Another is the fully wrapped tail that the oscars have

a mayans rarely fully wrap

[SW Florida Kid]

haha thanks and please dont take this the wrong way, just as a hobbyist I have to win this one because allthough how bad of a picture you took body shape does not lie, oscars have a more rounded body and does not display a sloping head like a mayan which is an amphilopus species btw

Another is the fully wrapped tail that the oscars have

a mayans rarely fully wrap

ALright, well.. you may be right this time. Im going to catch another one in the same spot this week and ill take a better picture... but watch out for next time Thai. ;-) lol

[Thai]

ahaha please feel free to post up and catch a bis bass while you're out there, what worked good for me while I was in Sfl was using a live mayan ad bait, now thats true mayan not oscar ok bud! ;D

[SW Florida Kid]

ahaha please feel free to post up and catch a bis bass while you're out there, what worked good for me while I was in Sfl was using a live mayan ad bait, now thats true mayan not oscar ok bud! ;D

I'll catch a big bass for ya soon buddy. Bass are as numerous as ants around these parts.

[Thai]

ahaha please feel free to post up and catch a bis bass while you're out there, what worked good for me while I was in Sfl was using a live mayan ad bait, now thats true mayan not oscar ok bud! ;D

I'll catch a big bass for ya soon buddy. Bass are as numerous as ants around these parts.

which is why I need to make a trip down there 

[1234567]

Hey bro, nice job.  I went out today and caught three too.  I noticed something about the bass I caught today and noticed the same thing in your pictures.  Don't the bass right now seem like there really skinny lately??  I don't know, maybe I'm only catching the tiny ones, but wow, mine were skinny ones!  The ones I caught last week from another place were skinny too.  I actually think I saw some beginning to spawn??  could that be possible already?  What were you using to get yours?

[etommy28]

the one thing yall do have to remeber is that mayan and oscars can interbreed. I have seen it before in the same area that he is fish. and I have had cichlids for about 8 years now. as well as working in the fish department of a pet store for 2 years.

[etommy28]

I left last week for christmas. but before i left they had began to prepare beds. but all the fish i was catching were nice and fat. the last time I went out I had a 6 and a 7. I really depends on the lake, there is one lake i fish where ever fish you catch under 27 inches are skinny, but every thing bigger are nice and fat. it really has to do with what they feed on.... I think.

[Thai]

Astronutus and Amphilophus species can not interbreed, they will pair up and spawn but the eggs arent fertile. You are correct in that most cichlids can and do hybridize in the aquarium trade, but oscars and Mayans do not and will not in the wild

[etommy28]

I have never had them do in a tank, but they will bed together in the wild, as you said the eggs may be infertile..... by the way where he fished has tons of myans but I have never caught a oscar there(but there may well be). lost of bass I have caught them up to 8 pounds in the lake and 6 pounds in that hole.

[SW Florida Kid]

I have never had them do in a tank, but they will bed together in the wild, as you said the eggs may be infertile..... by the way where he fished has tons of myans but I have never caught a oscar there(but there may well be). lost of bass I have caught them up to 8 pounds in the lake and 6 pounds in that hole.

We need to go fishing. You said you've been at the spot... I can show u another spot around there that is pretty good too.