The excited words of Garrett Farmer echoed off the brushy banks and palm trees in a branch of the canal system as one, then three, brightly-colored game fish reacted to his hard-plastic jerkbait. One ...

One of the hardest fighting species of freshwater fish is the peacock bass. This beautiful looking fish is great fun to catch because when it bites it hits hard, and then fights long and hard. If ...

UATUMÃ RIVER, BRAZIL – It felt as if someone had tied the 85-pound test braided line to an anvil and chunked it over the side of the boat. That is how an Amazon peacock bass, especially a big one, ...

Capt. Alan Zaremba of Hollywood shows off a male peacock bass with a pronounced bump on its head that he caught on a Baby Torpedo topwater plug in a Palm Beach County canal. Steve Waters For the Miami ...

Capt. Alan Zaremba of Hollywood reported that sight-fishing for big peacock bass has been the best way to catch the colorful fish in South Florida’s urban canals because water levels are stable and ...

Those exotic South American peacock bass that were transplanted in South Florida are growing so quickly that fishing records are being broken almost as soon as they are established. The most recent ...