Hi... New here... I live in Broward County on a good sized lake fed by a nature preserve. The everglades is basically my backyard. I have had ridiculous success with peacock bass by catching baby cichlids on a 3 foot piece of line, with a cabela's size 10 fly fish hook, and a small piece of bread. I take the baby cichlid, hook it through the bottom lip with a worm hook, cast it out and within seconds I'm catching bass. The activity actually draws more bass to the area. Doesn't matter the time of day either.

My 2 cents...

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Hi... New here... I live in Broward County on a good sized lake fed by a nature preserve. The everglades is basically my backyard. I have had ridiculous success with peacock bass by catching baby cichlids on a 3 foot piece of line, with a cabela's size 10 fly fish hook, and a small piece of bread. I take the baby cichlid, hook it through the bottom lip with a worm hook, cast it out and within seconds I'm catching bass. The activity actually draws more bass to the area. Doesn't matter the time of day either.

My 2 cents...

yeah cichlids are candy to peacocks. Target them with artificials as well. more fun.

Peacocks are Cichlids.

Peacocks are Cichlids.

True but the small mayans are good bait for them, but largemouth dont seem to hit them.

Speaking of largemouths... does anyone know if peacocks have an adverse effect on the population of largemouths? I know the game and wildlife people say no. I know the cichlids have pretty much wiped out the bluegill/sunfish population. Just seems to me when you introduce something foreign unforeseen consequences usually happen.

from what i have seen, th largemouth in south florida eat mainly craw, bluegill and some shad. peacocks eat mostly cichlids and shad.... so no. I have also caugh some Huge bass in ponds with big peacocks.

Peacocks are Cichlids.

True but the small mayans are good bait for them, but largemouth dont seem to hit them.

I'm in Delray and last year the peas have taken over lmb territory, I caught 4 peas to every bass .  Not this year, winter kill and haven't seen a peacock since January.

Peacocks are Cichlids.

and?

Hi... New here... I live in Broward County on a good sized lake fed by a nature preserve. The everglades is basically my backyard. I have had ridiculous success with peacock bass by catching baby cichlids on a 3 foot piece of line, with a cabela's size 10 fly fish hook, and a small piece of bread. I take the baby cichlid, hook it through the bottom lip with a worm hook, cast it out and within seconds I'm catching bass. The activity actually draws more bass to the area. Doesn't matter the time of day either.

My 2 cents...

I need to try that, and that is a beast in your avatar

Peacocks are Cichlids.

and?

And what?  It was just a bit of interesting trivia.

i used to live in broward,

right across from pembroke lakes elematary,

where the "block of christmas lights" are every year.

some great fishing for peacocks that i found as a youngster there was on the pembroke lakes golf course.

of course the rangers liked to hassle me as well, but i was a kid...... so what could they really do???

.....and in my years there, i found that peacocks totally over run the LMB......

in all the areas that i fished as a child, my main catch was peacocks.....and when i caught a LM, i was always quite surprised!!!

the ratio was probably around 10 to 1.

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and pound for pound,

i believe that peacocks are far better battlers than the equivalent size LMB, in my opinion.

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and pound for pound,

i believe that peacocks are far better battlers than the equivalent size LMB, in my opinion.

Not even a contest.