Introduction to Fishing

Introduction to Fishing 

Fishing is seemed to be one of the easiest things to do, just cast, reel, and you have a fish.  But it is not that easy.  You need to know spots, what to use as bait, and how to use the bait to successfully catch fish.  

In my blog, I'm going to be sharing tips, information, spots, and pictures of fish in the canals of South Florida.  I will show you tips on how to catch certain species at this time of year and what to use as bait.  I will also show you my weekly catches along with some great pictures of the fish that are caught.  

I catch various species of fish down here in South Florida that you can't catch anywhere in the United States.  This is because we have a well suited environment to the fish from Central and South America.  This allows for these species, if escaped from aquariums or even put in purposely, to thrive in these canals.  Some of these species include the notorious peacock bass, midas cichlids, mayan cichlids, jewel cichlids, spotted tilapia, and other uncommon species escaping from the home aquarium.  

I will show you tips to catching the various species and release exclusive spots to catch the many fish.  The target fish that I catch is peacock bass, a hard-fighting, tough, jumping fish, that is in many people's dreams to be caught.  These fish can get up to 30" and reach 15 pounds in Florida's canals!  These fish are not native and were released by the FWC many years ago to increase the game fish and to eat off many invasive species and have thrived ever since.  

My blog will include many useful things that a fisherman must know in order to successfully fish the canals of South Florida.  So if you ever decide to come fishing down here, just check it out!