Miami canal catches

[woofy]

These are some of the many fish we have in the canal 5 min from my hubby (cichlaholics anonymous) and my house. Mayan is around 13" and the Midas/red devil? is around 5-6" . I also caught a 12-13" Managuense but didnt get a picture. We've been trying to catch smaller bass, managuenses and mayans for our tanks but no luck yet. We'll keep you posted

 

[zfoster22]

nice

 

[The Amazonian]

WOW!

 

[varanio]

small hooks with mealworms will get the smaller fish to bite.

 

[spexmoneymaker]

the fish you guys get in the warmer areas are awesome...so lucky

 

[Druu]

A big mayan, I wonder if anyone down there eats them.

 

[Louie]

Great catch. The neat thing about the canals is that its cichlid territory not sunfish and pesky sunfish wont steal your bait.

I have noticed that cichlids hit Earthworms with relish. I just orderd more worms .

What bait did you use ?

 

[armac]

castnet

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

the bait was small jigs, and other times we use doughballs or gambusia

 

[Louie]

lol I meant to write cichlids relish earthworms .

Yes they love gambusia I have a pond loaded with them all diff sizes some rather large but couldnt bring myself to use them.
I stocked the pond with them and floating plants simply to have a supply but in the end couldnt do it.

I am going to try doughballs thanks never thought of that.