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Lightning
04-24-2007, 07:36 PM
I had an oppurtunity to fish here last weekend for LMB & Peacock Bass.We mainly fished with live shiners,since the water was very clear & the Peacocks are very difficult to take on lures.They must be a different stain from the Huge ones I see taken from Panama & Brazil since a large one here is 4-5# and 10 would be huge & rare.The ones I got were just 1-2,but put up a fight like a Smallie on 'roids.I also got quite a few LMB mostly on plastics.Saw quite a few Gators,but being an Ohio State fan,I tried not to get too close.The funniest thing was buying live shiners from a vending machine in front of an Exxon station.Peace
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Granny Fish
04-24-2007, 08:36 PM
Wow, is that a peacock in the second picture? I never seen one of those. Gotta love the fresh bait machine. :lol:

El Weirdo
04-24-2007, 08:47 PM
have to get out to FL to try my hand fishing there great pics..peacock bass...man I thought SMB had groovy paint jobs...

Skaguy04
04-24-2007, 08:52 PM
Nice looking fish there!
That vending machine is something else... :o

Crappie Slayer
04-24-2007, 09:09 PM
Very cool. Thanks for the report.

rockbass
04-24-2007, 09:28 PM
Great report!! I didn't know there were peacock bass in the 'states'-is this something new? I've watched the shows where they attack topwater lures in South America, it looks like a real adrenaline rush, watching a monster fish explode on your lure from such a distance!!!

troutdog
04-24-2007, 09:55 PM
That musta been one heck of a fishing adventure, vending machine is great. Might hafta search the net for pictures of the inside of that. Thanks for sharing.

TD

Troutman65
04-24-2007, 10:30 PM
That vending machine, what a trip. I think that was a Peacock Bass Granny Fish.

sansou
04-24-2007, 10:34 PM
When you shake the machine do you get a few extra shiners? Do the shiners pour in the cup properly, or is it like the old school coffee vending machines and it pours everywhere except the cup? :D

Cool pics dude!

Granny Fish
04-24-2007, 11:15 PM
When you shake the machine do you get a few extra shiners? Do the shiners pour in the cup properly, or is it like the old school coffee vending machines and it pours everywhere except the cup? :D

Cool pics dude!

Rich, there's a little trained monkey inside that measures you out a scoop into a cup and drops it down a shoot. :lol:

You've seen the trunk monkey adds I suppose... I don't think I'd shake the machine. Monkeys get pssst when kept in small quarters. :wink:

CatchthatTrout
04-25-2007, 12:06 AM
I didn't know we had Everglades in So Cal? :shock:

By the way..........Great Report. :thumb:

Granny Fish
04-25-2007, 12:19 AM
I didn't know we had Everglades in So Cal? :shock:

You've been up too late... the title says "NOT SO. CAL" :lol:

one_leg
04-25-2007, 12:27 AM
Nice report from the East. Thanks.

Lots of states have those kinds of bait dispening machines.
I think PETA probably has something to do with there being none in Cali.

dpg
04-25-2007, 12:38 AM
Awesome peacock bass. Man the only peacock bass i will ever come close to is in my rapala video game. :D

fisheromen
04-25-2007, 09:01 AM
Thanks for sharing! LOVED IT!!!

Lightning
04-25-2007, 08:43 PM
Thanks all.Sorry about putting this in the SoCal reports,I never saw the Out-of-state section before. :oops:

BuzzBait
04-27-2007, 10:30 PM
Nice Job out there! Florida...sounds like a foreign country to cali...lol jk

Granny Fish
04-28-2007, 12:20 AM
Thanks all.Sorry about putting this in the SoCal reports,I never saw the Out-of-state section before. :oops:

No problem... only reason people give you a hard time is to get their posting #'s up. :lol: At least that's one_leg's excuse. :wink:

Granny Fish
04-28-2007, 12:22 AM
Nice report from the East. Thanks.

Lots of states have those kinds of bait dispening machines.
I think PETA probably has something to do with there being none in Cali.

Please! Don't use that kind of language around me. :roll:

fishincrzygrl
04-28-2007, 04:14 PM
I want a personal bait machine. :shock:

Hitts0n
04-30-2007, 08:03 AM
Thanks for the pics

Captainklinger
05-25-2007, 06:08 PM
Im a boat captain who lives here in oc and work in florida. We try to go out to fish the largemouths and peacocks on the weekends we are not on the oceans. A 10- 12 lb one would be a big one

Lightning
05-28-2007, 09:01 PM
Wow! I bet that fought like crazy! Was that taken on live bait?

steve092
09-09-2007, 01:14 PM
Haha, a shiner vending machine.
That's classic!