If you like hard fighting and drag pulling predator fish, you will love this fish. The Peacock Bass has quickly become my favorite fish to target in South Florida. These fish hit like a freight train and offer a heck of a fight. The Butterfly Peacock is one of the most beautiful, most aggressive and hardest fighting fish on the planet. But recent milder winters have allowed for some northward range expansion.South Florida has an amazing Butterfly Peacock Bass Fishery that is year around. In Florida, peacock bass inhabit mostly warmer waters in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. They’re prized by anglers because of their striking coloration and the challenge they pose to light-tackle anglers.Īccording to the International Game Fish Assn., “The butterfly peacock’s powerful, laterally compressed body and aggressive temperament make it pound for pound one of the hardest fish to handle on light tackle.”įWC Commission Chairman Rodney Barreto added: “Anglers from across the country travel here to catch a peacock bass, which only adds to the tremendous economic impact fishing has in Florida.”įor the sake of comparison, the IGFA lists as the all-tackle world record a 12-pound, 9-ounce butterfly peacock bass caught on Venezuela’s Chiguao River in 2000. The predatory game fish are the only nonnative fish to have been legally established in Florida. Peacock bass, which are large cichlids and not true bass, are native to tropical South America.īutterfly peacock bass were stocked in southeast Florida canals in 1984, according to the FWC, “to reduce the number of undesirable exotic fishes, especially tilapia.”ĪLSO ON FTW OUTDOORS: Yellowstone tourist gets jail time after close grizzly bear encounter The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the certification Friday afternoon, adding that Prieto’s peacock bass “supersedes the previous state record that has stood for almost three decades.” A Florida angler has been granted a state record for his recent catch of a butterfly peacock bass weighing 9.11 pounds.įelipe Prieto’s after-work catch at an unidentified Broward County reservoir beats a record (9.08 pounds) that has stood since 1993.
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