\n
![](\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/4924056444cb91eca059ce.jpg\")
\nI’m going to call this a bull male. A beautiful trophy.<\/p>\n
Longtime followers of this blog have seen how inadvertent aquarium ownership devolved into an obsession with Austin creeks and finally left me with my current enthusiasm: fishing. I’ve had some fishing failures, but there have been triumphant fishing successes. <\/p>\n
The most recent success, I caught a beautiful example of the only North American cichlid. The territory of the Rio Grande Cichlid doesn’t stretch much farther than Austin, but I caught one on Tuesday.
\n
\nI’m going to call this a bull male. A beautiful trophy.<\/p>\n
Let’s say this was eight inches, just an inch and a half beneath the lake record.
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/12762511754cb91ed7f1855.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
I was going to hold the cichlid by the lower jaw to remove the hook, like they say you’re supposed to, but then I noticed that it had some serious teeth, so I decided to leave the hook in there.
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/20952481494cb91eb242bee.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
A fish like this would cost you twenty bucks at an aquarium shop.
\n![](\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/3825891134cb91ebccaaa1.jpg\")
\nNeedless to say, it was quite delicious. The meat was not unlike a sunfish, but it was particularly dense and oily. The hump above the head had some of the tenderest and most flavorful fish flesh I’ve had to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"