Wild caught Salvini

[$$mok3d]

I was bored today and did a little bit of cichlid fishing. I have been seeing these Salvini's in greater numbers recently while catching bait and they seem to be pairing up. Well it was hard catching just them as there are always hundreds of hungry mayans and tilapia ready to steal my bait. I managed to catch three that I put in my buddies tank since the ones we see at the LFS look like crap. I caught one a couple weeks ago that was 5"+ but sadly I didn't have my camera that day. Enjoy.

 

[ben&debbie]

nice catch!

 

[djdlemma]

Dang!!!! The color of wild caughts!!!!!!!!!!! NICE!

 

[RDW]

those are some sweet looking salvinis.....nice job!

 

[balton777]

Man you're so lucky to be able to go cichlid fishing any time you want.

 

[WildCAught]

Wow! those are nice salvini's, you should start shipping! Wish I was in florida.

 

[BastardFish]

must be nice lol sweet Salvini

 

[japes]

Definitely a keeper, no fins rips or anything, very nice.

It's sort of nice that there are catchable Cichlids in catchments in Florida, but sort of disappointing that people would release fish into them.

 

[Modest_Man]

There's a article in #241 of the Buntbarsche Bulletin (August 2007) about catching salvini (among other cichlids) in Florida (Griffin Road Canal for some amazingly red salvini).

How'd you do it? Netting? Hook and line?

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

That's awesome! I gotta get to Florida!