Jim said:
Thanks for posting!
My wife really wants to buy a place on one of those canals...I Kidd you not.
What was the lure of choice to catch those peacocks?
I don't blame her, and you're extremely lucky... follow up on that while it's still possible!
As far as Peas and canal properties in Florida go, AFAIK the east coast has wider distribution in three counties. The west coast is, from what I read and hear has been more limited in range to the Naples area. What they're doing in the Glades is unknown. They seem to migrate fast and this may be less accurate than a property shopper may need to know.
The GR8 thing about Peas is you can wake at dawn, hit the lake / canals for LMB, and go back over the same spots when the water warms up for Peas or even snakeheads. Or sleep late and leave the LMB to early rising fishermen
Regarding lures, Peas are pretty flexible... frogs,
no dorsal fin paddletail shad, and long wiggletail swimbaits of all sorts.
The thing is color, color, color, I never know what color (yellow, black, white or blue NEVER green) or whether paddle tail, long wiggle tail or frog will work. I'll say this, the more realistic it looks with dorsal fins and true body colors they will in my experience ignore it. It makes no sense, but after three years of targeting mainly Peas it's true. I've caught zero fish on lures that look so real I would eat it if it swam past me
This applies to frogs too. I have some bright yellow and white (color top and bottom) frogs they L-O-V-E at dusk, they look nothing like real frogs. Go figure.