Does anybody know where to fish Peacock Bass?  I heard you can fish them in Florida.  I saw them fishing them on Bass Saturday and it got me intrested.  Can anyone help me? ???

that episode on saturday was amazing.  and did you see iaconelli's 14lb plus peacock bass.  the fish there were probably born at 5 pounds.  i could only dream of catching fish like that...

What got me was that they were getting their rods snapped like they were toothpicks

I catch peacoock bass down here in Miami in the cannals they are loaded lots of fun.

That episode was down in South America.  Rio I think.  I enjoy watching episodes from down there.  What fighters and the size is just awesome.  Hope to go sometime.

I was planning a trip last fall and received a lot of info including a video form these guys:

www.rodgunresources.com

I jus want one of those on my wall...catch it..measure it....take a picture of it...then have someone reproduce it for me... 8) ;D

Hey squid I love that idea I just might do that.

If you ever get a chance to go to hawaii i heard that they have good peacock bass fishing their mixed in with a little bit of largemouth

Well thank you Tritonboats.  Let me know how it looks...lol

If i'm correct, aren't the Flordia strain of Peacock bass called butterflys?

The peacocks in south florida are the butterfly.  They dont get as big as the huge type you see in south america but they get plenty big and fight harder than largemouth.  Sometime ago when peacock fishing got big in south florida, the local fishing write up talked about how a 1lb peacock and 1 lb largemouth tied tale to tale the peacock would ware out the largemouth in 3minutes.  The hotter the water the better for peacocks, so you can wake up at noon and go catch them in summer. when its 90+ outside. They are more agressive than the largemouth, they chase prey instead of ambush.  They'll take anything, but I hear thr floating baby rapala in bright colors worksreal well.  The further south in south florida you go, the better and bigger peacocks get.  Dade and broward counties are the best because theyre the warmest in the winter. The peacock cant take the temperature of winter time even as far south as palm beach.  All the canals in south palm beach, broward, and dade counties have peacocks.  Miami international airport has monster peacocks.  Theres also a bigger canal down there I think C-14 off I-95 thats locally famous for peacocks. The miami homestead airport also ahs tons of peacocks, but i dont think they let you fish there.  Any canal you can fish from the bank and catch fish.  Work your lure fast.