A friend and I went down south to try and get some of them peacocks, they havn't been biting too good up where I live. So we get down to a new spot, a southern broward county canal way out west. The canal was 150 feet wide and stretched for miles, and had beautiful structure all through it. We started off right away catching 1 to 1.5 pounders left and right on any soft plastic that hit the water, it slowed down a little and we trolled a few cranks down the middle of the canal to see if we could find where the peacocks were or larger bass. And thats when the southern pike hit the crankbait, I know it's a chain pickeral, but southern pike sounds better. These are very rare way down south, it was fun to get one in the boat. I personally havn't seen one in many years. So overall an average day 20 small bass and that pickeral, no peacoks, although I did see one taunting us from under the heavy structure. (it's starting to get hot down here mid to high 80's yesterday)

Nice catchin.

Nice color on that fish. I caught a few on a lake in Central FL when I was fishing down there a couple years ago. That great thing about catching them down there is on average they have some decent size to em and they put up a heck of a fight.

I know that area well and I'm not protective of my "secret spots". Try the griffin canal go west from the spillway and seminole park for the trifecta. Peas, freshy snook and tarpon. Snook and tarpon are there, they just don't reproduce it freshwater.

Caught some peas in the c15 recently.

Southern Pike!  I like that.  Up here in the Florida Panhandle thay are called jacks or jackfish.