|
|
Post by floridahunt on Aug 13, 2023 0:53:39 GMT -5
Went down to the Big Cypress and rode around on a buggy. I was really disappointed that suckerfish were in the swamp. I was literally 5 miles from the main gate, the water averaged about a foot high in this area, (it was dry two months ago) and you could see sucker fish in the water.
|
|
|
|
Post by joekat46 on Aug 13, 2023 4:40:50 GMT -5
Glad you weren't swallowed by a python.
|
|
|
|
Post by TRTerror on Aug 13, 2023 9:00:51 GMT -5
I've had the ditches in front of my house dry out...Hundreds of Walking catfish laying in the mud..
|
|
|
|
Post by wildman on Aug 13, 2023 10:19:44 GMT -5
South Florida is screwed when it comes to invasives. Basically too little done and too late...
|
|
|
|
Post by bullfrog on Aug 13, 2023 20:04:03 GMT -5
Any South Florida peeps got any good oscar holes you know about? I’d like to come catch a few hundred…
|
|
|
|
Post by bowhunter4life on Aug 14, 2023 3:11:00 GMT -5
Any South Florida peeps got any good oscar holes you know about? I’d like to come catch a few hundred… Put your boat in just west of us27 on I75 ( alligator alley)… at the first or second boat ramp past the toll plaza… throw your beetle spin along the lily pad edge and catch all the Oscar’s and Mayan cichlids you want. |
|
|
|
Post by One Man Gang on Aug 14, 2023 7:14:06 GMT -5
Bowhunter is right.
Any of the canals off of 27, South of Belle Glade will give you all the action you want. I use a fly rod but as bowhunter also said, beetle spins will produce if you are not a fly fisherman.
Bring a jonboat,a ton of drinking water, and plenty sunscreen, and have at it.
I was out on the airboat Friday and saw a pile of BiG oscars around some of the camps in area 2.
|
|
|
|
Post by JS84 on Aug 14, 2023 11:52:44 GMT -5
How are they for table fare?
|
|
|
|
Post by bowhunter4life on Aug 14, 2023 15:45:46 GMT -5
How are they for table fare? Never tried them , but I hear they make a decent fish fry. I like to wait until just after thanksgiving through February or so to pursue my favorite panfish ( specks), on okeechobee. A high temperature of around the mid 70’s and very low humidity.👌….. if you go now, I’d be on the water fishing at the crack of dawn, and try and be done by 10am at the latest… it’s brutal out there! |
|
|
|
Post by meateater on Aug 15, 2023 9:53:47 GMT -5
heres some facts for you guys, just like the python scam that wastes millions of dollars every year paying out to a select few that fit fwcs new woke hiring practices, mostly vegan internet wanna be actors who will never get them under control driving the levees all night, most of them are praying the pythons never disappear because then they will have to get a real job. they also pay a few select guys for invasive fish removal. how nice would it be to drift down the alley catching 200 oscars and ciclids for .50 or .75 a piece,, how bout going along 27 near sta 2 and gigging 300 suckerfish in a night at 1.00 a piece , nothing they are doing is making a difference so why not open it up to the public, try something different stop wasting our tax dollars and letting our public land and water go to waste.
|
|
|
|
Post by meateater on Aug 15, 2023 10:00:15 GMT -5
How are they for table fare? they suck most gringos think there the same as hassa hassa are delicious but not suckerfish or armored catfish big difference. |
|
|
|
Post by One Man Gang on Aug 15, 2023 10:15:42 GMT -5
Look up Pleco... they are disgusting. So are these shit eating tilapia. It takes a month to get the tilapia stench off your hands, out of your cooler, and out of your olfactory senses.
It's funny to watch the honkys try eating that crap thinking it's a armor catfish (pleco) or a farm raised tilapia filet (green tilapia).
Gig em and use em to fertilize your gardens. That is all they are good for.
|
|
|
|
Post by ogbohica on Aug 15, 2023 10:18:51 GMT -5
Ill be restoking my pond if anyone wants a thousand or more tilapia
|
|
|
|
Post by JS84 on Aug 15, 2023 10:24:02 GMT -5
I know pelcos are gross. I was asking about Oscars and Mayans really. I've only eaten specs as a kid, boyscouts.
|
|
|
|
Post by cracker4112 on Aug 15, 2023 16:39:50 GMT -5
We throw the Mayan cichlids in with the rest of the panfish. They taste good to me. We don’t mess with any of the other invasives…
|
|
