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N. Cook
10-19-2005, 06:12 PM
Despite the unsettled weather I went fishing this am....slept in and got to the marsh at about 8.....as I had a different target than bass...I had caught a couple of Mayan Ciclyds on my bass lure at a particular spot on the grass line...took my fly rod with a small yellow jig tipped with a small piece of worm.....bang bang bang all morning with the hand sized hard fighters.....ring aroung the boat a few times....left just in front of a storm....here comes Wilma!....

Great fun on a fly rod, non stop action.
fpspecialk
10-19-2005, 06:48 PM
Sounds like Great fun... or it would if I knew what a "Mayan Ciclyd" was??!! :tard:
DUCKWHACKER
10-19-2005, 08:24 PM
Illegally released aquarium fish. Oscars and some really colorful tank escapees abound in south Florida canals.
N. Cook
10-20-2005, 08:57 AM
A lot like a bream, very colorful agressive and a hard fighter and good to eat....
fpspecialk
10-20-2005, 07:18 PM
A hard hitting, good fighting, pretty fish, that's good to eat!!... Sounds like the perfect fishing trip! Do they like dry flies? That to me, is the way to fish. I like fly fishing from a float tube... like to see the action, & when you are in a float tube... it's in your face! :icon_razz
D Duck
10-21-2005, 06:43 AM
...and you can feel the gators swimming around your legs. :00000039:
N. Cook
10-21-2005, 07:27 AM
The gators die of old age in the Refuge....not a place to wade...I even am careful when I pick up fish or wash my hands.....I've seen big gators just laying on the bottom below my boat looking up at me.....Capt. George and I once had a "double/double" on....each with a bass on which a gator was chomping as we fought a bass/gator combo....
fpspecialk
10-21-2005, 11:27 PM
Whoaa :00000039: Sounds like that is NOT the area to float tube!!
Hey, William ask if you have any of the Peacock Bass there?
N. Cook
10-22-2005, 08:29 AM
If any were in the canals it would be at the very northern range of the peacock's habitat. I have never seen one at the LOX. FED. REFUGE and I believe the water gets too cold for them. Ft. Lauderdale is about as far north as they can live. Great fishery Ft. Lauderdale south.
DUCKWHACKER
10-23-2005, 09:49 AM
One day I'd love to experience some peacock bass fishin'. Nothin' like a fish that attacks a fast movin' lure during business mans hours. :hello2: :thumbsup: