CATCHING COLORFUL AQUARIUM FISH For My POND!

Bass fishing Productions
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In today’s video, I head 3 hours north in search of colorful aquarium fish that were released into a small community pond… I ended up catching multiple pearlscale cichlids and brought them back to my own backyard pond!
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This is the only pond in Florida you can catch these fish.
That is literally like the prettiest fish I have ever seen.
What is up BFB Nation? Welcome back to another awesome video.
Me and Brandon just drove three hours to fish this pond.
There's a very special fish in these waters.
This just one little pond here in Florida.
This is the only spot you can catch these fish.
They're called pearl scale cichlids. They are very beautiful.
I found this spot through that online database once again.
And yeah we made the trip up here. We drove three hours north.
I've seen a lot of people catch these on Instagram and it's
it's so funny because the pond is like so small and this is the only spot in Florida.
And it's just this one isolated body of water.
We've made it to the pond. Now we got a little tiny hook here.
We just picked up some night crawlers from Walmart.
We also have a surprise in the back of the truck that we might whip out here in a little bit.
Basically these fish they look very similar to Texas cichlids but they are different species.
I honestly don't know what the difference is.
But I've seen a lot of pictures of these guys the pearl scale cichlids
and they are freaking beautiful.
They're huge. They got bright blue. They got big humps.
Hopefully we can get some today and if we do we're bringing them back to one of our ponds.
We'll figure out you know where we're going to put them later on
but I definitely want to bring one back to the pond.
So let's start fishing. I don't know how to catch these fish.
I don't know how many there are in here.
I'm assuming that this pond is pretty pressured because look at this.
This is the only pond in Florida you can catch these fish.
There's no pipes. It doesn't lead to anything.
It's literally just this freaking pond.
Yo I'm guessing one of these houses was the ones who released them into.
Yo we should we should knock on some doors do some interviews interrogate them.
Yo did you put these fish in the pond?
All right guys let's put a worm on the hook see if we can catch one of these fish.
Oh oh my god.
Oh it's a freaking bass.
You freaking bass.
All right guys we just caught our first pearl scale cichlid.
Look at that fish.
We traveled three hours to catch this guy.
We're gonna let him go.
Awesome.
Oh what is this?
It's a bluegill.
Look at the purple on that bluegill.
That's the cichlid.
That is the pearl scale I think.
Guys I apologize for the wind.
We are literally on an island right now.
It's so weird.
We're on this little tiny strip by the ocean just like completely isolated.
It's an island and you got this little pond in the middle of it which holds pearl scale cichlids.
So there's lots of wind.
I can't do nothing about it.
I'll try telling the wind to stop.
Bro are you kidding me?
Bass.
Yo we should just we should just cast net this whole pond.
That's backup.
That's our backup plan.
We'll cast net it.
After a full loop of the pond I finally found what I thought to be a pearl scale cichlid on a bed.
Yo was that one?
I think so.
Oh he's coming back.
I see him.
Come on eat it.
Kind of looks like a fat bluegill.
It looks like a pearl scale actually.
I think it's a pearl scale guys.
We've seen our first one I think.
I'm like 100% sure that's one.
Yeah should we just cast?
Should we cast in them?
We had a resort to plan b already.
I got him.
You're done.
You think I got him?
I did not get him.
I got him!
Yes!
Oh my god!
They're real.
Confirmed guys look at this.
Oh my god!
Dude look how beautiful that fish is.
Brandon we did it.
That is so cool.
He's like turning green now.
He's darkening up already.
He was way brighter but.
That is literally like the prettiest fish I have ever seen.
All right get him in the bucket.
Three hours for that fish.
We're gonna keep fishing.
We're gonna put him in the cooler.
There he goes.
We're gonna get some of your friends too.
You're not the only one okay.
You're a little lonely now.
10 minutes we're gonna.
This whole cooler is gonna be filled with your friends.
We're taking them all baby.
Now that we failed to catch him on the run reel.
You know we kind of cheated but here on Bass Fishing Productions.
We take no shame in casting that in a fish.
You know we do what we got to do.
He didn't want to bite.
We're gonna make one bite.
We're gonna catch one on run reel.
So just pick this patch way up at Walmart.
This is the biggest rod I've ever seen.
Can you guys tell how big this is?
Look at this.
This is like 20 feet long dude.
This thing is so heavy dude.
Three of me's.
Three bobbies.
This gives us an advantage okay.
Because we could reach out in the middle now.
Here we go.
First cast with my new rod.
Holy crap yo.
We're out in the middle baby.
How am I gonna feel a bite dude?
Bro I'm like off balance.
It's like tipping me over holding it.
Oh my god dude.
I'm getting tired holding this.
Hawk right there.
Osprey right?
What what are the two?
Well guys I didn't get to break in my new rod.
Which is really sad.
We haven't seen one more.
That's the only one we saw.
So I think like I think this spot is very pressured.
You know a lot of people know about it.
And I'm sure they fish here and try to catch as many as possible.
I think we're lucky we caught that one.
Like really big beautiful one.
With a bad cast.
Yeah that cast was amazing.
Oh look it's thunderstorm two coming.
All the odds were against us today.
Yeah really.
We're like I'm telling you right now.
We're lucky we caught that one.
So guys we're gonna cast now a couple times.
And then call it a day.
We got a thunderstorm rolling in.
And we got a long drive home with our new fish.
Why do we catch babies?
I've seen people catch babies in the pictures bro.
That's why I'm still like confused.
Because in their pictures like they're catching so many.
It looks like the pond is so full of them.
And we've only seen one.
Holy.
We got a freaking giant.
Brandon look at that.
Look at him.
Get a good look at him.
Yo the day is saved.
We're back at it baby.
We caught two of them.
I knew I felt one.
The net is so tangled.
Come on.
Look at this fish.
Look how beautiful bro.
This one's like really brown.
The other one was way more colorful.
But I'm still so excited.
So happy I caught one.
Oh my gosh that's two.
I think the big ones the big colorful ones are males.
This guy must be a big male just like the other one.
Let's run him back.
Let's run back to the cooler Brandon.
All right guys we got two.
Look at them they're best buds.
I saw the one we caught.
See he's much more white now because he's in the bucket.
But lots more blue on this guy.
All right storm's coming in.
We got five minutes ETA before the storm hits us.
Brandon's gonna give a few throws.
Because you know he's much better than I am at throwing this thing.
So you know we just gotta go for it.
We gotta Hail Mary it.
There he goes.
We'll see if we can get as many as possible.
Come on Brandon.
Whoa what is that?
Is that a baby?
It's a bluegill.
Whoa.
This is rigged.
Okay.
Pearl scale cichlids.
We'll see you in another time.
We gotta get out of here dude.
The rain's coming quick.
Here they are.
There they are.
All right guys we'll see you back at my house.
We are at Bass Pro Shops.
We're at Bass Pro Shops.
We gotta get an aerator to keep these fish alive.
Oh my god.
There's freaking alligators.
I had no idea.
I had no idea there was alligators here.
Look at all them.
There's some big guys.
Damn bro there's some monsters.
What is that?
What is this?
Yo it's kind of small.
It's not as big as the other ones.
All right we got bubbles.
We got air.
We have life.
Now we will see you guys back at the house.
What is up BFP Nation?
Welcome back to another awesome video.
That's the second time I said it this video.
We are here at the pool pond.
Now I would love to put these guys in a tank but I don't have any room in my tanks right now for them.
Yo look look at the orange coming through on them.
They've been in the cooler for three hours so you know they're not as beautiful
as they are going to be once they're all in here.
But we're gonna put them into this pond until the new pond is ready.
There he goes.
Oh he's meeting the Midas.
He's meeting the peacock.
We're gonna have them boat in here like I said until the new pond is done.
They'll be going into the new pond with all the other cichlids.
That one is that's the really pretty one.
This is the really pretty one.
All right there he goes.
Oh look at the Oscar.
He's right by the pump.
All right there's there's the one right there.
They should be really good in here.
But the new pond guys listen I know I've been saying it for a while but I gotta I gotta get
an electrician out here.
That's what I'm waiting for to set up.
Oh I see it a little bit.
Don't you dare show them.
Don't you dare.
Don't do it.
I'm waiting on an electrician.
What are you doing?
Wayne be nice.
Oh my god.
He's starting to hand feed now.
I don't have any food though so sorry.
All right so we got two of the pearl scale cichlids in the pond.
There's one by the peacock.
The other one's over there.
They're way too big for Bane or anyone to mess with them so they should be good.
Just like the Vieja and the Midas.
Go down there leave a like.
We drove like five hours or something like that.
Crazy for these fish.
It was all worth it though.
They are gorgeous.
But yeah guys go down there hit the like button if you did enjoy.
Subscribe if you haven't already.
I'll see you guys in the next one.
Peace out.
