The peacock bass is a bucket list item for many anglers but an excursion to the Amazon to fish for this colorful and aggressive species costs thousands of dollars. Fortunately, there's a much more ...

The excited words of Garrett Farmer echoed off the brushy banks and palm trees in a branch of the canal system as one, then three, brightly-colored game fish reacted to his hard-plastic jerkbait. One ...

There are plenty of fish in the sea, but there’s only one place in the sea to catch a very special kind of fish. Deco’s Chris Van Vliet is here to reel us in with the details. Peacock bass are an ...

Capt. Alan Zaremba of Hollywood shows off a male peacock bass with a pronounced bump on its head that he caught on a Baby Torpedo topwater plug in a Palm Beach County canal. Steve Waters For the Miami ...

A Florida angler has been granted a state record for his recent catch of a butterfly peacock bass weighing 9.11 pounds. Felipe Prieto’s after-work catch at an unidentified Broward County reservoir ...

Peacock bass have been in South Florida waters for 30 years, and Capt. Alan Zaremba has guided more anglers to more of the colorful, hard-fighting fish than anyone. So when Zaremba says that now is ...

That’s what Steve Andersen thought on his first peacock bass trip to the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon in northern Brazil. Guides and anglers who had caught peacocks before warned the fish ...

HIALEAH, Fla. — Everyone who has cast a line into the water dreams of the 'Big One.' Felipe Prieto of Hialeah was fishing in a Broward County lake with live bait. When he finally got a bite, it turned ...

Capt. Alan Zaremba of Hollywood reported high water levels in Everglades canals have made for slow bass fishing, so he’s been taking his customers to Miami’s urban canals to fish for peacock bass with ...

UATUMÃ RIVER, BRAZIL – It felt as if someone had tied the 85-pound test braided line to an anvil and chunked it over the side of the boat. That is how an Amazon peacock bass, especially a big one, ...

A Florida angler has been granted a state record for his recent catch of a butterfly peacock bass weighing 9.11 pounds. Felipe Prieto’s after-work catch at an unidentified Broward County reservoir ...