Oscars love to eat red wiggler worms. Often you can see schools of oscars if the water is clear. They like to travel the canals where there are ledges dropping off to deep water. Fishermen out to have fun and catch something good to eat come from as far away as Georgia and South Carolina to get in on the oscar catch. Often they fill large coolers with hundreds of oscars.
Some tourists wonder aloud why Florida allows unlimited harvest of oscars.
There are so many, hook and line fishermen are not about to put a dent in the population. It seems that when you pull one oscar from the water, two fish pop up in its place, said Nell Jones at Mack s Camp on the Miami River Canal. L-67 Canal, where it intersects with Miami River Canal. Only a few casts with live worms or small lures like the Beetle Spin, will quickly locate a school of oscars. Joe s Camp between Clewiston and Moore Haven.