After a horrible day at school I was itching to catch my first peacock bass of the new year. I headed to a canal I knew was holding some hawgs as I had seem them a week earlier but could not get them to bite.  Well today I was throwing my favorite peacock lure a beat up to hell gold x-rap. I caught a couple dink p's and largemouths none picture worthy.  After fishing in the rain for an hour and a half I was rewarded with this peacock which weighed in at 5lbs 11oz.  This is my biggest fish this year and my PB for a Peacock Bass.  This particular peacock put up the best freshwater fight I ever had.

Nice!!!!!!

WOW!!  Awesome fish!

Jason

I want to catch a Peacock bass too... I will be there in a couple of hours!!!

BTW, did anyone ever say you looked like David Blaine the magician?

Ohhh... I forgot, BEAUTIFUL FISH!!!

Beautiful fish...Love the colors!!! :o

I wish my fishing skills were up to par with David Blaine's magic.  If only levitation were possible then I wouldn't need a boat. :

Very cool man! 8-) Congrats to your PB peacock!

i bet it was a good fight...keep up the good work

Outstanding Peacock!  They surely love that Xrap; that's my go-to bait for them...  I've only caught two this year (2-4#) so I need to do some catching up.  :

Nice!! No Peacock up here where I'm from but I can Dream!!

That is a great fish.  It must have shook the smack out of your xrap.  We are gonna have to let you run the next FL Boys get together / Peacock hunt.

Al

The past few weeks I have been scouting around trying to find a good lake that holds peacocks but I haven't been that successful.  The peacocks in the canals are on fire but finding them land locked is a problem for me.  Google Earth has been my new best friend for finding peacocky (my new word) waters.  I fished a few culverts today and got skunked but saw a few p's and countless mullet.  I am going to try the weston area for new spots and might go up to Tradewinds Park to see if i can catch some this weekend.  If anyone in Broward or Dade has any spots and needs a partner just hit me up.

give the C-4 and snapper creek a try i landed an 8 and a half pounder a little under a month ago.

that is a great looking fish.  I wish I could get into one of those.  Congrats.

WOW! That's a big Florida peacock.

Wow, you do look like Blaine.

Great looking peacock!

I use GoogleEarth like I was the NSA too.  ;D ;D

Anglin101 were gonna have to fish together man.  I been on the c-4 but no luck.  You're gonna have to show me some spots bro.  You doing anything Monday I got the day off.  ;D Really!