soflabasser
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Make sure to bring a couple bucktail jigs for striped bass from the shore.
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Welcome to the forum @Quinner006. There are places you can catch peacock bass in SouthWest Florida but you will do better the more east you travel into South Florida. There is a good population of peacock bass on Tamiami trail and I have caught plenty of them there. That is a relatively short drive that can easily be one in 1 day from Fort Myers and you have a excellent chance of catching your first peacock bass there. There are also other exotic fish( mayan cichild, Oscar, spotted tilapia, etc) in that canal system so you should have a good time catching new species of fish.Good lures to use for peacock bass are poppers, spooks, propbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, etc. Let me know if you need more help, I got +20 years experience catching peacock bass in South Florida and I catch trophy peacock bass every single year.
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We had a couple days of high 80's-low 90's down here as well in February.
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I have been to Mexico several times, the weather is nice but not as nice as South Florida. We also got more fishing variety to choose from in South Florida and I can always visit the northern states if I feel like fishing for muskie, smallmouth bass, etc.
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Thank you. I have been fishing for well over 20 years now and have been very fortunate. We all have to start out somewhere and fishing is a hobby that every fisherman or fisherwoman learns for a lifetime. Make sure to have fun when you fish, be safe, and follow the fishing rules of your state.
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I fish with lipless crank baits often and they are a very good lure for bass and many other species of fish. My favorite brand of lipless crank bait is the Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap and I have them in several sizes. Get the right size for the conditions you are fishing and try different retrieves until you find the one that works best for you.
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$119 seems to be a excessive amount to ask to ship a fishing rod in the United States. I bought a rod from Australia and the shipping cost me less than $30 to ship the rod from Australia to South Florida.
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There is a public body of water in South Florida where I caught 149 bass in 1 day from land. This was in less than 6 hours of fishing and I am confident I would of caught more if I would of been there earlier instead of later in the day. I go to this location when the conditions are right since I know the bass fishing will be amazing when it comes to numbers of bass. This is a place where most people do not fish from land since its a very long walk in a area with lots of alligators around. Most people will not walk for hours while shore fishing to get the results I got that day but sometimes you have to think differently than most fishermen to get different results.
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Live Target and Booyah
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There are many cases that a public body of water has more numbers of big (but hard to catch ) bass than a private body of water and the bass might be bigger in a public body of water. It takes a lot of available food for several bass in a particular body of water to get +8 pounds and some private bodies of waters might not the right conditions for these +8 pounders yet a public body of water might have them. There is a public body of water I fish in South Florida that I caught a 10.3 pound bass from the shore and that place is loaded with big bass which are extremely difficult to catch. Illinois has good fishing, especially in the rivers for smallmouth bass and muskies.
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