What is the best bait for peacock bass?

Tackle and Bait: Butterfly peacocks prefer live fish or fish-imitating lures, rather than plastic worms commonly used for largemouth bass. The best bait for butterfly peacocks is live shiners, but artificial lures also work well, including topwater plugs, jigs and crankbaits.

What is the best time to catch peacock bass?

The topwater lures work the best during the morning or late afternoon. The most important thing to remember in Peacock Bass fishing is that these fishes are robust; they strike harder and give a spirited fight. Peacock bass remains active during the day but can be caught morning and early evening.

Are peacock bass easy to catch?

They’re actually pretty easy to entice as well, so once you figure out where they are, it doesn’t take a lot to get one in your boat. Whether you’re traveling from out of state or right up the coast, we’ve got the best peacock bass fishing lakes and canals for you, so continue reading!

Can you put peacock bass in a pond?

Absolutely NO on peacock bass under any circumstances. The number of problems caused by fish species inappropriately stock are huge.

How to catch peacock bass?

Freelining – there are no more productive means of landing big peacocks on live bait than simply freelining.

Sight Fishing – walking the edges of a canal or park pond and locating fish in the shallow areas is one of the more popular means of catching peacocks because

Casting – Finding fish in deeper water work best when working lures across the bottom.

What is the best lure for peacock bass?

If using artificial lures, try a gold Rapala F7 floating minnow or a top water torpedo. If using live bait, peacocks prefer shiners (try a 2/0 or 3/0 circle hook depending on size of the bait). Peacock bass are a fairly sturdy fish, so catch and release survival rates are quite high if the fish are handled correctly.

Where can you catch peacock bass in Florida?

Catching Peacock Bass in the Winter. Peacock Bass are caught in south Florida, and winter regularly (five to seven days on average) brings cold fronts all the way down to the species’ location near places like Fort Lauderdale and into the southeastern fresh waterways.

How big is a peacock bass?

The speckled peacock bass is the largest species and can grow to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length, and may be the largest of all cichlid fishes.