Idiotangler

Some of yall may know that the different species of peacock bass can hybridize to make beautiful franken peacocks. Singapore has a unique stock of hybrid peacocks that love deep, rocky points for ambushing schools of baitfish. Since the glide bite has died down, I've been experimenting with alabama rigs to target these fish and the results are encouraging. Here's a chunky hybrid pea on the yum flashmob A-rig and my new tranx 300/Millerods DreamfreaK combo

Been out of action since November due to a knee injury. First day back on the water and I got hammered by this 6 pound peacock off a bed on the sludeswimmer 175. When it flared and raised its dorsal fin, one reel twitch that sent the glide into it's face was enough to trigger a bite. Now to track down a deps 250 and try to get a 16 pounder to do the same thing

Saw this peacock in the shallows. She kept smashing but missing my baits so I swapped to a slow float tuned bullshooter. She followed me all the way to the bank and slammed me on the figure 8 Spot censored cause it's a sensitive area where I live

The Bone Voyage and Voyage expedition series are popular accross the region, as is the Ironman Throne series from Malaysia. From Japan brands like zenaq, huerco and fishman are used over here to great effect as well. I'd love to try chucking my baits on the one piece rods that yall use though! It'd be fun to compare!

Nah they have rasping pads similar to largemouth. You can lip em fine if you don't mind having a rough thumb for a couple days

Singapore and the USA aren't incredibly similar fisheries. Although peacock bass and largemouth bass do have their similarities, the waters are highly pressured, everyone fishes from the bank and our rods are seldom over 7'6. Travel bigbait rods are incredibly popular here as well. These fish were caught on glidebaits and the spro bbz slow sink. I'll let yall guess how big the fish that opened my hooks was The one on the arashi glide was caught while figure eighting the bank muskie style if you believe it or not! I've been wracking my brains thinking of how to get the bigger peacocks to commit to biting my swimbaits. The majority of the time they barely nip at the hooks and a directional change gets them to lunge but they stop short of slamming the bait. After quarentine lifts I can't wait to get back on the water and keep finding patterns!!

Hi everyone! I'm Joel from Singapore and I've always been intrigued by swimbaits because they're only just starting to catch on here. Here's a seven pounder I stuck on an swaver 168 over the weekend. Hoping to learn from everyone on this amazing forum