Miami Peacock Bass

Me and Mponce went out today on the Bass tender, looked nice in the morning , pretty calm waters. We where out for big Peacock's and boy did I find them. I drove us to a few spots and we where both on fish as soon as we anchored in the deep water. We each caught a few, the fish where not on the banks, but down deep. I tell Mponce lets cross over to the next channel and we got slammed by a huge storm. It was like something you see on the deadliest catch, well sorta. =)

The rain and wind was so hard, we almost got the little tender flooded. We had to pull onto the bank of an foreclosed house and tie the boat to a palm tree. :tooth: We both caught very nice fish today while fishing about 2-3 hours, we lost a couple of tanks, that where pushing 8-9 pounds.

My highlight of the day was watching Mponce, get slammed on topwater, by a catfish, yes a catfish =)

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Then I hook into this thing :fishing: :eek:

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by now the storm is rolling in, and I hear a huge pop, couple min later, this comes up :nono:

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We are about to leave then Mponce hook another Real 1 :cool:

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Man that's awesome! It was cold and spittin' sleet here yesterday so seeing that makes me want warm Spring weather even more!
Those are beautiful fish I never caught one but I'm sure they fight like crazy.

How did you catch them down deep? Live bait? I've tried a few times and never could get a bite. Nice job! Do they fight as advertised :-0