#mayan cichlid

[fish-daily]

could you please do a mayan cichlid? they’re invasive and super common where i live

fish 150 - mayan cichlid

[captainmikesfishingadventures]

Successful Fishing Day: Tips from the Spillway

Morning spillway fishing was a success with Crappie Maxx Baby Shad lures! The *electric chicken* color landed bluegill, Mayan cichlid, and several bass, including a nice bass. I even returned in time for lunch with Tania!

[amgurd]

I caught two fish yesterday.

[thenativetank]

Native Fish Hunting - Interlude!

Okay, now for some actual Fish hunts! After a few days of vacation, the wife and I were able to slip away and find a few trails to go hunting on. It's the dry season so freshwater beds were smaller - but maybe there were still neat things to find?

Woo hoo! Wild fish! This stagnant pond included a variety of fish life! The biggest fishes we saw, which dominated the others, was the non-native Mayan Cichlids (Mayaheros urothphalmus), a large striped red cichlid. They are brackish tolerant, which is how folks believe they made it to the island. Also in the picture were Sailfin Mollies, which I did try to catch. Unsuccessfully.

Just like our native sunfishes, Mayan Cichlids build nests to attract suitable mates. It was cool to watch them build nests, with relatively little squabbling I was intrigued to note. Sunfish are nasty little suckers when nesting, for comparisons sake.

So I went with a hand net and did some dipping and was able to catch....

Eastern Mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki). Wah wah wah.... I travel a thousand miles and catch the same species we have locally. I would have done more fishing, but I had a good reason not to.

Huh, I wonder who that's for...

Yikes! We turned a bend and not 20 feet away was this Alligator, about 8 feet long if I had to guess. Fun story - I saw a stream behind this fella and so I wandered blindly forward. My wife had to stop me from stumbling close to this gator. Welp. Time to cut the hunting short!

On the way back to the car was this Florida Softshell Turtle, probably 12 or 14 inches long, just hanging out under the next car over. This was a family of turtles I've never seen in the wild, but hear they are bitey!

So, you wanna see my biggest disappointment of the trip?

Sigh. So here's the deal. Eastern Mosquitofish have a black and white marbled form which is very rare - I saw maybe 4 during the hike - and from the inaturalist reports I've seen, they really only show up in Florida. I tried my best to catch this guy but safe to say he outsmarted me good.

[specialagentlokitty]

Hey I hope you don’t mind if I drop in just to talk 😅 today has been bad but kinda good my Mayan Cichlid Nemo died this morning which sucks because I’ve had him for 7 years (I got him from a lady who had him in such a small tank he was badly stunted). He was always very interactive coming up and eating out of my hand and swimming around the surface when I would come over to the pond. Anyway before he died he apparently got frisky with the two blue females in the pond (Lola and speckles) because this afternoon there were babies all in the pond. So that’s my emotional roller coaster of a day (the second picture is from when I first got speckles she was the last one I added to the pond so she’s done some growing)

Awh no I’m sorry to hear he passed :( I know it can be really hard to loose a pet but I’m here for you!!

Aww at least you have babies to remember him by! Little parts of him will be in the babies as they grow!

[fishihavecaught]

2020 Year in Review

Here we go again -  continuing my year in review series from 2014, 2015, 2016. 2017, 2018, & 2019 I have kept track of every fish caught by day and location. I have compiled and crunched the numbers are here are the results.

240 total fish caught 35 different species 6 new species 8 saltwater species 27 freshwater species Month with most fish - October (108) Month with least fish - March, August, & November (0) Fished 42 different locations Caught fish on 55 different days Total days fishing - somewhere around 57 Fished off personal boat - 0 Fished off pier – 1 Fished off party boats – 1 Fished off private charter – 0 Countries fished - 1 (United States) States fished - 4 (Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, & Alabama)

Well, what can we say about 2020. It was not the year that everybody expected it to be, but we managed to fish some anyways. I had big plans for the year with trips to Cabo and Portugal that had to be cancelled as well as smaller trips like my yearly Florida panhandle expedition that didn’t happen. However, even with the cancellations and lockdowns I still managed to catch more fish this year than last and also get 6 new species. 

Highlights of the year, not necessarily in any order.

1. As always I enjoy meeting and fishing with people throughout the year. There wasn’t much of that this year, but I did get to briefly fish with Luke again on the Skyway. Also got to fish with my family in South Carolina this summer.

2. First time fishing in Tennessee - didn’t catch much but it is beautiful and I will be back.

3. Catching my first mud sunfish after looking for it unsuccessfully for a few years. 

I am looking forward to 2021 and the adventures it should bring. Ben and I are getting ready for our rescheduled trip to Cabo and I am planning my first Florida shad run. Stay tuned!

Fish Counts:

Bluegill 38 Pinfish 30 Dixie Chub 4 Eastern Mosquitofish 7 Largemouth Bass 5 Redear Sunfish 14 Florida Gar 1 Mayan Cichlid 8 Coastal Shiner 15 White Grunt 21 Pigfish 4 Spottail Pinfish 1 Red Grouper 2 Hogfish 1 Flier 5 Brown Bullhead 1 Spotted Sunfish 10 River Chub 6 Channel Catfish 1 Scaled Sardine 5 Atlantic Spadefish 2 Dimerus Cichlid 5  Striped Shiner 1 Blackbanded Darter 1 Blacktail Shiner 12 Blackspotted Topminnow 1 Bluehead Chub 2 Largescale Stoneroller 1 Green Sunfish 1 Jewel Cichlid 17 Blackchin Tilapia 2 Hairy Blenny 10 Mud Sunfish 2 Warmouth 3 Redbreast Sunfish 1

[largemouthbassnation]

Insane big bass found choking on a mayan cichlid while fishing! [description] Florida I had a few small catches/misses and a hook go through my finger today. lol found a bass with a full grown cichlid wedged in the throat, I removed it and watched the Bass live another day & hopefully produce more bass in the future! bass choking at 2:43! source

[thehuntingcompany]

A nice mount of a Mayan and Midas Cichlid exotic fish from south Florida that we took on our last trip. #midascichlid #mayancichlid #taxidermy #bowfishing #southflorida #hunting (at Mizell's Mounts Taxidermy) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdl9Bw9v1qh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[deepspacedukat]

Hey, I hope your having a good day :)

Today has been bittersweet for me. I had an old Mayan cichlid named Nemo I got 6 years ago pass away, his original owner had him in a tank too small (he was majorly stunted and never got bigger than 7 inches out of the 15 he could’ve reached) and I rehoused him in my 300 gallon backyard pond with a two female blue tilapia named Lola and Speckles (fish farm breeder rescues). However what I found later the same day after he passed away was that the pond had fish fry (babies) all in it.

Oh no! Oh, friend, I'm so sorry. It's always hard losing a pet. At least there's a ton of new baby fish, right? That means there's (hopefully) a ton of new little friends! Consider this a massive hug from me to you (if you're comfortable with touch, of course - if not, then consider this a large, emphatic heart-hands situation).

I hope you're doing alright. My ask box is always open for you (and anyone else, obviously)! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[scicomm-that-matters]

OH MY TILAPIA!

In the Philippines, specifically in Manila Bay where a lot got shocked that dead tilapias are floating but naturally some knew that tilapias are most cultured in freshwaters, so is this really planted or like what was reported as fish kill?

In a study by June Ordonez (check link below), presence of blackchin tilapia, Sarotherodon melanotheron is seen in the coastal waters of Manila Bay and in the river tributary of Hagonoy, Bulacan, suggesting its possible range expansion. The occurrence of the native Central American Mayan cichlid, Cichlosoma urophthalmus, is also putatively confirmed for the first time in Hagonoy, Bulacan.

Also, in the study, it was mentioned that negative impacts of the existence of the two species due to competitive interactions have already been anecdotally reported, however, no empirical scientific evidence is available to provide verification. Therefore, studies on the potential ecological impacts should be done, especially because the two species were already reported as notoriously INVASIVE.

It means, all this time, unknown to many, tilapias are invasive to the bodies of water that were mentioned, so next time someone whom you will have argument that it is something related as political agenda, you can use this as evidence.😉

Link of the paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269223362_First_report_on_the_occurrence_of_invasive_black-chin_tilapia_Sarotherodon_melanotheron_Ruppell_1852_in_Manila_Bay_and_of_Mayan_cichlid_Cichlasoma_urophthalmus_Gunther_1892_in_the_Philippines

[captainmikesfishingadventures]

Breaking in New Gear: Spillway Fishing Adventures on the Treasure Coast

Join us as we break in new light-action rods at Treasure Coast spillways! Tania and I explored multiple spots, catching bass, Mayan cichlids, and sunfish despite windy conditions. Discover our fishing journey and gear highlights. Tight lines await!

[amgurd]

It's MAYAN CICHLID TIME BAYBEY!!!

[rodandbarrel]

Mayan cichlid 3-D Fly

I tied up a couple of these today in anticipation of fishing the backcountry Everglades this winter for snook. With colder temperatures snook will swim up into freshwater where they will readily and with abandon feed on Mayan cichlids

[fishfolkart]

I spent close to a year with the cichlid family and it's time to move on to another fish species. I enjoyed my time with the cichlids and they are indeed a very colorful species.

[darrenjdavisgcs]

A great day of freshwater #fishing in two locations Tilapia, Largemouth Bass and this Mayan Cichlid #oldefloridagolfclub #swfl #freshair (at Olde Florida Golf Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-A6opdl9BZ/?igshid=liscj120momj

[fishihavecaught]

South Florida Trip

Woke up early Saturday morning and did the 4 hour trip to Miami area in search of two specific species. Arrived at the location where it immediately started to rain and lightning for a good hour.

I waited in my car for about an hour and when it was lightly sprinkling I started fishing. At first it was really slow but once the rain completely stopped I started getting some bites.

First fish on was one of the ones from my target list - the Banded Cichlid (Heros severus) also known sometimes as the Green Severum. This is species #287 for my life list.

Species #287 - Banded Cichlid (Heros severus)

The next fish I got on was a surprise - a nice Peacock Bass decided to attack my worm and due to the light tackle I was using it was actually quite the fight.

Next I landed two of my other target species and they were much larger than I was expecting and were tough on my light reel. Species #288 is the Hornet or Zebra Tilapia (Tilapia buttikoferi). 

Species #288 - Hornet Tilapia (Tilapia buttikoferi)

I finished out my time at this location trying to get some of the many Midas Cichlids around to bite and finished off with a single bruiser of a Mayan Cichlid.

I attempted to fish a few more locations in the Everglades and Port Charlotte but rain chased me the whole way.