We were within a few blocks of there but I heard in the paper they were closed now. That canal on 168 had em but they wouldn't hit anything. That was the only spot they were on beds still.
I wish you guys luck. Like i was mentioning to Carlos the best thing is to hit the canals like crazy. If you are anywhere in hialeah there is a bait shop next to Okechobee rd, on 8th ave west and 18st(1795 W. 8th Ave), they sell shiners,6.99 a dozen i believe, the entrance is on the side. Again good luck
So heres the story. Friday at 3:30 i met goodoyster at his house and we headed down. Stopped on 41 and fished a little. The gators were going crazy with the top water so we just packed up and moved on.
We got to the hotel at about 9pm and met with DONY1 and went to chillis to get dinner. After that we went to sleep and woke up at 7 showered and headed for breakfast then out to fish. First canal Dony1 got a Huge bass but it broke off. Then we hit several other canals. The first one to catch a bass was my son Devin. Then we moved on again to another and my son got 1 more bass and we still had no bass or most importantly no Peacocks!
We finally went to a nice crystal clear lake and Dony1 Got a huge monster bass, My son got another and gary 3 bass. We them moved on to another lake and i got a brim.
We went to sever al other canals and fished. We Finally saw some Peacocks on ledges at this one canal. They were not biting Noting would work.
We went back to the hotel ordered some pizza and went to bed. Woke up at 5:30 and showered and headed out to fish. We hit several canals that looked promising the day before. No Peacocks. Then we decided to go to the one canal where we saw the peacocks on the ledges. Dony1 picked up some shiners we were sure that it was going to be game on with the shiners. We threw the shiners and NOTHING. Actually put the shiner in front of the Peacocks mouth and nothing. TOTAL LOCK JAW.
I finally decided to just try to piss the darn Peacock off. I put on a rattle trap and ran it past him. He didnt even care it was there.. Then i remembered reading that you need to run the lure past the Peacock at lightning speed to even get its attention. So i re casted past it and then hauled asss past him and BAM he made a total u turn and smashed the rattle trap. This little thing was fighting like it was huge.. But it was small. So its true they do fight like they are twice as big as they really are. RIght after i put him back Dony got slammed and got a peacock SO the weekend was a success. We went there to catch peacock and we did. Thats the whole reason we went down. And the mission was accomplished.
We then headed home and fished 41 a little and only got gar. So we headed home and that was the end to a great weekend! Had a great time.
I would like to thank Dony1 for taking us around all weekend, for the shiners, and the drinks in Chilis!. I would also like to thank ihunt, jdiaz, and rad07 for the google map spots!
Here are the pics.
Dony looks like a munchkin from Wizard of OZ standing next to you two giants
