Nicaragua Fish Collecting Trip

[duanes]

I got quite a few Dovii that size and a couple bigger. They pull extremely hard and try their best to get back into the snags where they live.

That fish is called a Machaca.

Looks like one of the many Machaca species to me. A Characin related to the Neon tetra, usually lumped into Brycon guatamalensis.
I catch them as juvies in small tributary streams in Panama, and keep them in my 180 until they get too large for the tank.

 

[danotaylor]

Cheers mate.
Was this your first visit to Nic to fish?
Fun times. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

 

[Bassjedi]

Cheers mate.
Was this your first visit to Nic to fish?
Fun times. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

I had been to the same place back in 2013. I did more tarpon fishing in the ocean that time, but got some good Doviis too.

 

[danotaylor]

I had been to the same place back in 2013. I did more tarpon fishing in the ocean that time, but got some good Doviis too.

Awesomeness

 

[The 426 Hemi]

Such an awesome experience! Especially to share with your daughter! Now bag up a few of those beauties and bring em home!!

 

[tiger15]

I got quite a few Dovii that size and a couple bigger. They pull extremely hard and try their best to get back into the snags where they live.

That fish is called a Machaca.

The present of an adipose fin is a give away that Machaca, known as Brycon in SA, is a fruit eating characin found througout the Amazon. They are popular food fish in SA but almost never kept in aquarium even though some species are very colorful. I’ve eaten Brycon in Brazil that taste like salmon to me in having high fat content and somewhat bonely. Dovii is called rainbow bass in Nic, should be boneless as in peacock bass, and I wonder if it taste as good.

 

[Bassjedi]

The present of an adipose fin is a give away that Machaca, known as Brycon in SA, is a fruit eating characin found througout the Amazon. They are popular food fish in SA but almost never kept in aquarium even though some species are very colorful. I’ve eaten Brycon in Brazil that taste like salmon to me in having high fat content and somewhat bonely. Dovii is called rainbow bass in Nic, should be boneless as in peacock bass, and I wonder if it taste as good.

Rainbow bass taste great, but they are too threatened in the wild for me to eat them. No one wanted the Machaca I caught because of the bones.

 

[duanes]

Here in Panama the Machaca are basically a sportmans catch, too bony to bother with, but great fighter.
Invassive Cichla are both for sport and for eating, along with Centropomus (Robalo)exist in both fresh and salt water .

Robalo above, Cichla below

Both caught in Lago Areosa, Part of the Panama Canal system
I have kept juvies Robalo, but the get too massive for my tank.
My regular guide usually just takes the large ones home to feed the family.
The one below was too small, and kept in the tank

Lago Arenoso below.

 

[tiger15]

Machaca look and taste like carp, bonely and fatty. There are no native carp in SA. Bass fish, both true bass and cichlid bass, are boneless and among the best tasting fish. Boneless means no pin bone. I’m not sure why some fish have pin bone, some have none, and what is the biological function of pin bone.

 

[Bassjedi]

Machaca look and taste like carp, bonely and fatty. There are no native carp in SA. Bass fish, both true bass and cichlid bass, are boneless and among the best tasting fish. Boneless means no pin bone. I’m not sure why some fish have pin bone, some have none, and what is the biological function of pin bone.

There are similar looking fish all over the world. Here is one I caught in Tanzania:

And another in Venezuela