Tyler Rahmer (Bass Resource Forum member) from Maryland got his wish fulfilled this week. He wanted to fish while on vacation and catch a trophy fish. Mission Accomplished! Both of these beautiful fish were taken on top water plugs. The 18# fresh water snook took 7 minutes to land and the 7# peacock bass hit like a freight train. We fished a bout 6 hours and caught about 20 peacock and the snook. What a day! The video now appears on page two of this thread.

 

 

 

From earlier in the week. My personal best 5 1/2# peacock.

WOW!  Now that is what I am talking about!  Congrats!
 

Jeff

Captain Shane your are on a roll this year.

Two nice fish.

hell of a snook been along time since I caught one

You gotta love South Fl fishing. You never know what your going to get. Nice fish Tyler, WTG!! Shane great job getting into fish.

excellent fish! snook season started today so ill be out later fishing it up

That looks like fun! Congrats!

Awesome deal. 

Awesome, I hope he has video.

Awesome, I hope he has video.

Already edited! Gonna hold onto this video for as long as possible before uploading to the Tube. Got the snook doing slow motion acrobatics. I think it is one of the best yet.

Snook definitely go airborn.  Not been the best snook season so far but I've caught a few 15-20#, killed them everday this week, mostly smaller ones.  People don't realize that there is an underwater calender and the snook look at at,  season opened yesterday and I didn't have 1 strike..........lol.

Wow, very nice. It's good to see someone's getting those peas. Where were they in relation to the bank? The past couple times I've went out, I've only seen a couple 2#ers in the shallows along with a few smaller ones.

Wow, very nice. It's good to see someone's getting those peas. Where were they in relation to the bank? The past couple times I've went out, I've only seen a couple 2#ers in the shallows along with a few smaller ones.

The bigger fish were hanging on drops off ledges.

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Man Shane I could have sworn you'd have a bigger Butterfly Peacock with the time on the water! What is the largest your client has landed?

 

I bet you client was excited!

Yea man those are some nice fish!

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Man Shane I could have sworn you'd have a bigger Butterfly Peacock with the time on the water! What is the largest your client has landed?

 

I bet you client was excited!

Robert unfortunately I rarely get to target them. I usually don't fish with the client. This was the exception. My boat took a 7 pounder last week and a 6 1/2 pounder last year. The client was pretty excited.

Those are some great looking fish!

Nice catches. I'm jealous.

Great to live in South Florida.  Beautiful peacock Shane, its amazing how they fight and how hard they hit a bait.  You know the second they hit its not another black bass but rather something special.  So glad they a coming back after the cold spell several years ago.

Here is the video of the 18# Snook hitting a top water plug and a 7# Peacock hitting the same plug. This video is made for pure enjoyment and in no way is advertiseing for any other purpose.