Not a trout but it'll do

Luckily enough for me, the weather held off today in southern Fl, and I was able to get out on the canals.  I stopped at the local fly shop and picked up a Lamson Konic II with intermediate line, and tried it out.  The day started off a little rough, as my feet were getting eaten by fire ants and I had no luck fishing.  I stopped for a little while, and went back to it later in the afternoon with socks and shoes rather than flip flops.  The fishing was still slow, and I had changed flies on numerous occasions, all subsurface.  Finally around 5, I stripped in the streamer, and felt the tug of a big fish.  As I fought it and got it close to the bank, the fish jumped fully out of the water and I saw the flash of orange and yellow, and knew I had my first peacock on the end of my line.  It's not a small stream wild trout, but fishing the canals with the 8wt is pretty damn fun too.

mayan chicilid from last year

first peacock