{"id":406429,"date":"2026-09-21T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406429\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:42:43","slug":"9-year-jaguar-guapote-florida-record-beaten-by-16-year-old-in-miami-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/406429\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year Jaguar guapote Florida record beaten by 16-year-old in Miami \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old angler ended a nine-year record after he caught a jaguar guapote in Miami, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.<\/p>\n<p>According to FWC, Xzavier Peon caught the record-breaking jaguar guapote in the Westwood Lakes area while using live bait.<\/p>\n<p>The jaguar guapote weighed 3.02 pounds and measured 16 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>FWC said that the previous record stood for nine years in 2017 when the jaguar guapote was made eligible for state record status in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hooked it, I thought it was a peacock bass,\u201d said Peon in a statement. \u201cBut once the giant jaguar came up, I knew that it was a state record almost instantly. We started freaking out once we realized it was a state record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FWC said that Jaguar guapote are found in the urban canal systems of Southeast Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old angler ended a nine-year record after he caught a jaguar guapote in Miami, the Florida Fish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-406429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-florida","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}