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General Fishing Discussion
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I have a ton of mayan cichlids in the lake (FRESH WATER) behind my house. Some other bream, bluegills, and such… Water is crystal clear. Tried to take my neice fishing with some earthworms so she could hammer them. (**() fish would not eat them. Figured that the fish can see my hook\line, etc.

So, I am walking the dog around the lake today and there is a kid out there just hammering the cichlids. He’s catching them non-stop and big ones. I walk up to him and notice he has probably a 50 wire leader on there, like the 6" prepackaged leader that you buy at Wal-mart that has snap swivels on both ends, not stealthy at all.

But that didn’t suprise me the most. The thing that suprised me was that he was using chunks of BOILED SHRIMP for bait… Never heard of that one before. Again, this is a FRESH WATER lake and these fish won’t touch an earthworm, but they can’t get enough COOKED SHRIMP…

Lesson learned… You can learn something about fishing from ANYONE…

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You need to keep postin your reports of peacock bass and mayans OTF! Those were way cool.
Do you do a lot of bonefish/snook/tarpon/permit sightfishing down there?

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had a friend that swore by cooked shrimp for the sea trout out at the nearshore. she use to fill coolers with them on cooked shrimp.

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NMFS = No More Fishing Season

“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”

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Bluegill and redears (shell crackers) also LOVE small pieces of shrimp. When targeting the large ones on Murray and Santee, we will tip our jigs and spinners with tiny bits. Down where you are Skinnee, there are tons of 1 inch grass shrimp in the lakes, so that may be why the smell or taste is not foreign to them.