![]() A full-blown spawning Cichla temensis will lose all the dots and dashes and will sport three strong black bars down its orange/brown flank, changing into its spawning splendor. At this stage it is built for speed and feeding and puts up an incredible fight for fish of its size.Īs it grows larger and gets ready to spawn, a Peacock Bass eats voraciously and piles on fat deposits and more muscle and it morphs slowly with three main vertical black bars showing through the dots and dashes. When not in its spawning mode, the Three-Barred Peacock Bass is called a Paca (due to its similarity to a small Amazon Rodent called a Paca) and its body is longer and slimmer, with white dots and dashes along its purple/blue or brown flanks. This species can reach over 30lbs and the current world record stands at 29.4lbs caught in the upper Rio Negro in Brazil. The largest of them all, the Speckled or Three-Barred Peacock Bass (Cichla temensis), is found naturally in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela in the Negro, Branco, Orinoco and Madeira watersheds. Peacock Bass are not actually Bass at all, but are members of the Cichla species and we fish for many of these beautifully-colored fish in Brazil, Guyana and Colombia. This is where hooks can easily be straightened and your rod and line broken. It will look at you with its bright red, angry eye and rip off yet another lightning burst of speed. If you think the fight is over and the fish is done for as it reaches the boat, then you’d be wrong. Peacocks are just so aggressive and strong that they will fight like fish twice their size, all the way to the boat. One minute you’re stripping your minnow bait or jig through a likely-looking area and the next your rod is nearly ripped out of your hand by the savage strike. This is a sight to behold!!Īnd subsurface strikes are no less impressive. Sometimes it will slap the lure way up in the air with its head or tail, only to constantly explode on it as lands back in the water until it finally hooks up. Often, a Peacock will hone in onto the bait and chase it all the way back. You will not believe how one fish can make so much noise and commotion, like a bomb going off. The sound of a top water strike is like no other and can be so violent, that a big fish can literally snap 50lb braid like cotton. It will fight, jump, run and take you into submerged trees and structures in a heartbeat! Imagine the shape of a Largemouth Bass on steroids with a jet engine strapped to its back, then you have your Peacock Bass. If your lure is in his ‘zone’ then he will want to kill it or eat it! No other sport fish, freshwater or saltwater, attacks a lure as hard or seemingly with such pent-up anger as this species. These amazing fish hit top water lures with such ferocity, it seems impossible to understand. The stories you hear about Peacock Bass are legendary.
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