We are headed to Miami 4/11-14 to try to catch some peacock bass. At first we were going to do a half day charter but one of my buddies is wanting to just bring his boat so we can fish 2 whole days. He’s investigated it quite a bit and thinks we should be able to do good on our own. Looking at fishing the Miami airport lakes. If anyone has done this before and has any tips they would share we would really appreciate it! Thanks a bunch.
Peacock bass around Miami FL
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Hem
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I have wanted to do the same.
I think there are canals you can access that have bass. Can't offer any specifics but it sounds doable.
I think there are canals you can access that have bass. Can't offer any specifics but it sounds doable.
CRJR45
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Sheltowee
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Peacock bass were always high on my bucket list, so flew in a day early when I had some company meetings in Miami a couple years ago. One of the most fun trips I've ever done. Between three of us, we probably put 50 into the boat in the canals not too far from the airport. We fished with Capt. Mike from Urban Legends and I'd very strongly recommend him: https://www.urbanlegendsfishing.com/ I'd definitely go back with him but want to try my hand at throwing flies at them. Be prepared to see some Booner wild iguanas, too.
Just a word of warning-- a couple of college friends took their own bass boat for a peacock trip several years ago. Woke up the next morning at the hotel and the truck, boat and trailer were gone.
Just a word of warning-- a couple of college friends took their own bass boat for a peacock trip several years ago. Woke up the next morning at the hotel and the truck, boat and trailer were gone.
SC Living Outdoors
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Send me a PM. I’ve done it a bunch diy
VAspeedgoat
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We've gotten into some accidentally. Lots of areas in the canals around Miami have em. Take the boat and do an Airbnb. Lots of em have security fence to protect your stuff. We were in key largo last summer and had the same concerns. Heck, you may find a house with canal access.
Ive always dreamed of doing this in the Amazon. May have to settle for FL also. Can some of you guys expand on general types of fishing techniques? Topwater, live bait, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, wacky wormn? And what months to go?
Sheltowee
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Mostly throwing live shiners at cover for me. For artificials, I'd bet a white pearl or chartreuse Zoom Fluke would be the bees knees. Wouldn't be surprised to hear they like a small Zara Spook or some similar topwater stickbait. Seems like that is roughly what the lures look like when I see TV shows in the Amazon chasing them.
I’ll definitely report back on here how it goes for us. I’ve never really given it much thought but my dad is excited to try it so that makes it worth it to me.
Never done it in FL, but I did a trip to western Brazil in '11 and this is spot on. The one exception is "small topwater baits..." the baits we threw were 6-9" long, and all sizes of peacocks slammed them. They are basically aquatic velociraptors, aggressive techniques encouraged.
