For those of you who might get down to Florida in the next year, you might want to check out peacock bass fishing in South Florida. I have fished with Alan Zaremba on a number of occasions and done well each time. Alan is Florida's premier peacock bass guide and he fishes canals and lakes in Miami-Dade County.

In South Florida, we have butterfly peacocks, which grow to about 10 pounds max. These aren't the monsters that you see on TV. Those are barred peacocks. Both species were introduced by the state in South Florida waters in 1984, but the water gets too cold for the barred peacocks to live. They died off, but the butterflies thrived.

They're fast and extrememly strong. They're also beautiful.

Clouser Deep Minnows on 6-weight rods with sinktip lines work well.

Alan's website: http://www.floridapeacocks.com/