Lake Izabal ID please

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rodald

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Hello everyone.
I just came from a little collecting trip from lake Izabal, Guatemala, my goal at the begining was to collect C. bocourti but my fishing skills really suck plus i only had a hand net to do the job whitch didnt helped a lot, fortunately on the last day i came across this really friendly fisherman who allowed me to take some of the fish he was pulling out of the lake whith a really long net (sorry dont know how its called in english) at the end I took 20 fishes with me.
On my way back I was a little disapointed i couldnt find any bocourti but still very happy with all the fish, when I got home I put all the fish in a tank and started to check on the species and this is what i could identify:

8 Criptoheros spilurus
4 Vieja maculicada
4 Thorychthis aureus
1 Cichlasoma salvini
2 gobbys ( dont know the species)

And the 20th fish really got me happy, I didnt noticed it when I was pulling them out of the fishermans net, but it really resembles a bocourti to me and theres where I need youre help, I just want to know if i am right about it or if you think its a diferent species here are a couple pics of all the fish, sorry for the blury pics they were taken with a cellphone.

bocourti???
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The bigest Thorychthis aureus
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I will try to post more pics about the trip and the fisherman latter.

Greetings
 
Well done, the only legitimate wild bocourti I know of. Would you by chance happen to have taken any habitat photos?
 
Thanks for the ID,
as requested here are some pictures about the lake and a video of the way the fish were caught

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as you can see there are a lot of trees surrounding the lake so you can find a lot of driftwood floating arround inside the lake.

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this picture was taken early in the morning, right now is winter so thats the reason why its so cloudy.
You can also see that theres a fallen palmtree i was able to see some young Vieja maculicada dweling inside it.

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this is the substrate, its mostly sand and some little pebles, as you get deeper into the lake the sand gets thinner.

Here are the pics of the fishing
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the catch
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Here is the video of the fishing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvj1hLm96T4&feature=plcp

can someone fix the video please, i couldnt post it

greetings
 
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