Although Florida is known for its excellent largemouth bass fishing, South Florida has a couple of exotic species that local anglers appreciate even more — peacock bass and snakeheads. And now is a great time to catch them.
Native to Brazil and other South American and Central American countries, colorful peacock bass were stocked in South Florida canals in the mid-1980s by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to control the population of undesirable exotics like tilapia.
Peacocks have done a great job of that and also turned marginal urban canals into desirable fishing hotspots…