It's ILLEGAL To Release These Beautiful Fish ALIVE! -- CATCH and COOK Invasive Species! (NEW PB x12) 

Would love to catch a big one like that! Next cichlid I’m after are Oscars and Mayan cichlids!

@@COLE_and_JAY In the Everglades, I have caught red tiger Oscar's in the 4lb range. Fun fight on top water

They are also called Rio Grand Perch in Texas. We catch them in the Comal river in New Braunfels, TX., beside Heidelberg Resort Lodges. The Comal river is crystal clear. If I recall, it's the only river that starts and ends within the city limits of a city. The river comes out of the ground springs then connects to the Guadalupe River which is also beautiful, but not near as clear and clean as it used to be. The Comal River record is 1.27 pounds caught on a worm, it was 10.5 inches long. The Comal species can be tan to green colored but still has the beautiful spots on them. I'm curious as to why they're considered invasive to LA if they are native to North America and a neighboring state? They are delicious!!

I raised them they are Called Texas not rio grand

@@COLE_and_JAY Mayans almost seem to have overrun many of the canals around my area in Ft Lauderdale for years now. You can catch tons of them with just bread balls like we used to do with bream cept they are much much stronger and fighters. Heck I can't even catch bream\blue gills with bread in the canal next to my house now a days just mayans. Live worm will get them still but then again a live worm most things will eat.

one of the most common restaurant fish tilapia is also a cichlid :).

I thought the same thing, till I watched some documentary lol and found that It's equal to us frying up bluegill or other pan fish species.

You should see the red Texas cichlid. They are very beautiful. They’re a fish you’d want to keep in an aquarium, but they are more aggressive than the ones that they’re catching.

"Ba Chan" not Baw Chan

@@cwskoshikun nope

@@susantao2891 yup

Not even close dear....the word baw is not in the Japanese vocabulary....however ba is 😁

They were so good and a lot of fun to catch!! Hope to target them again sooner than later!

Thanks so much for watching!!!

They naturally occur in South Texas, another common name for them in the Texas Cichlid.

Do it! You’ll love it!!!

Thank you so much!!!

roger that... damn yankees come down and think they lived the 'life'. I spent time in Arkansas and those dudes are fake as shit. At least in Ft. Smith and Little Rock areas

Been really wanting to travel up there! Definitely high on the list!

You will not be disappointed...you may never want to leave.loljust like the rest of us already here. Maine is the Best Place on Earth!

Had a blast visiting down there! Those rios were awesome!!

We had a blast!! Thanks!

If it's native then why invasive?

Good size yellow bass taste better than white bass to me.

@@becia1540 over breeding and destroying other fish habitat that hold more value aswell as eating prey fish that other more valued fish would otherwise eat, bass in itself is considered trash fish but they are fun to catch

Thank you!!!

None of those are cichlid except the Rio Grande cichlid. There are no cold water cichlid either.

It’s our jam!

That sounds like so much fun!!

They’re a really cool fish!!

As soon as I saw the fish, I thought; Freshwater aquarium fish = Cichlid.

@@COLE_and_JAYthey do occur naturally in America but in the Rio Grande only.

Nope,we have Mayan cichlids and Oscar and tilapia rt here in Florida, especially in the lakes and canals in south Florida.

Down here in Florida we have Mayan cichlids and Oscar

Thank you! They were delicious!

Def need to try that!

The asian carp are terrible for the environment, are y'all plagued with the apple snails too?

@@kenneth9874 We don't have Asian Carp here yet. (I say yet). Don't know anything about the snails. We do have a big time problem with some of the invasive aquatic grasses though.

@@thomasm9139 between the asian carp and the apple snails the aquatic grass has disappeared, the carp have displaced a lot of good fish

Awesome! We want to come down there and get after some!

@@COLE_and_JAY well I got a fishing boat just let me know whenever you guys ready to go after some big game fishing 💪

I thought these tasted better than tilapia honestly, but I have only had store bought tilapia. Still haven’t caught one of those

The MyFWC website has all that info.

That would be fun!!!

Me too, I always liiked African Cichlid's myself.

Awesome!! They would be cool to keep!

A lot of petshop animals became invasive in the warmer states. Besides fish; (Snakeheads, Pelcostomus & various cichlids including Tilapia) there are many reptiles (Green Iguanas, Basilisks, Cuban Anoles, Red-Eared Sliders, Burmese Pythons, etc, etc.) Some (many) aren’t even native to the US!

Some Nimrod decided they were too big for their fishtank and decided to set them free. The same thing with Lionfish off the FL coast.