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besides largemouth and bluegill...what other type of fish are in that lake..i caught a fish and its kinda black and white and i have no clue what it is
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Word on the street is that there are some exotic fish in there...such as Talipia...of course planted by numerous concourses of divers out there.
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wow talipia??? in a way it does look like one..
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I've caught Tilapia out there. I thought it was a huge blue gill...I was wrong. Good eatin though.
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[cool][#0000ff]Three species: Largemouth, Bluegill and Nile Tilapia. Here's a pic of a Blue Lake "grand slime".[/#0000ff]

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Where is blue lake? When's the best time to fish and what kind of bait would you use?

[cool][#0000ff]Blue lake is actually several small warm spring brackish water ponds south of Wendover. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water stays at least 70 degrees all year, so you can fish it anytime you can withstand the air temperatures. Actually the cool weather months are better because the sticky mud is frozen and so are the plentiful skeeters. They will drive you off in the summer.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fish for the bass with any of your favorite plastics. Drop shotting with Reapers is very productive. Some guys use minnows (dead) and catch some bigger bass.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Bluegills can be caught on fly rods, small jigs, pieces of worms and even cheese. The divers feed the fish from pressurized cans of cheese spread so the fish have developed a fondness for it. No nachos though.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Tilapia take whatever the bluegill hit.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here is a [url "http://www.divemagic.com/html/blue_lake_-_wendover__nevada.html"]divers website for Blue Lake[/url].[/#0000ff]
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Thanks TubeDude! You are a hero to us inexperienced fisherman!

Hey Pat, what's this stuff with stealing my pics.??!! [sly] Just kidding of course.[unsure] I can tell because that's my cutting board. [] I vouch that talapia (sp.?) are good eating but hard to catch.[unsure] There are some big uns there but I defy anyone, that includes the "Dude" to catch em.

P.S. Let's hold down the posts on the "Blue", ok? Can't stand pressure and it's starting to get trashed.[mad] Just my 2 cents.
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[cool][#0000ff]Hey Leaky, it ain't the float tubers who are "trashin'" the place. It's the divers. I say lets have a diver-catchin derby over there. I hear they fight pretty good.[/#0000ff]

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They do put up a good fight, I caught my line on one 2 years ago at deer creek. The line broke before I got him to shore, but I'm not sure how I would have landed him anyway. You know how a catfish "talks"? This was making the same noise. (with a few cuss words![shocked])
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[cool][#0000ff]Just as well you lost him. Strictly C&R, with no possession allowed. Tough to fillet them anyway. I hear they taste like carp.[/#0000ff]
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Boy oh boy.... Leaky's getting more possessive the younger he gets.... [] I do agree about the divers... they do smell funny. Rotten wet rubber or something. The tilapia are fun to catch but Leaky's right.... they are kind of an off chance fish. If you get one great but don't plan on hitting the Blue just to get one. You might leave disappointed. The one place you can catch a mess of "perch" sized fish, tilapia included, is in the little bluegill ponds right at the last T intersection. When John (Fsh4fun) and I went out, we fished those little ponds and it was a stunted gill or tilapia on every single cast. That was just with a piece of a worm. No divers in the little blue gill ponds either. [cool] Just a potstirrer at heart so here goes... Leaky, that slam was quite tasty wasn't it!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha ha...... Just teasin you guys.... the fish were tasty but that was the only tilapia we got that couple days... or did you get one too Leak? I can't remember. Leaky gets younger, and I just keep getting older with memory loss thrown in for good measure. [pirate]
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[cool][#0000ff]Tilapia are fun to catch, but they don't get very big in Blue Lake. Quite a few years ago, while living in Southern California, I used to catch a fish per cast, all over two pounds, with some over four pounds. Just threw blue back RatLTraps anywhere along the shoreline. Great fun and good eating.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are also lots of tilapia in southern Arizona. Two pounders are not uncommon and they get to be over 5#. The biggest ones are usually taken by guys shooting carp with bows in the spring, back in the weedy bays of some of the lakes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As Riley suggests, they will take a piece of crawler about as well as anything. However, where they are mostly vegetarian they will also take dough balls and even green peas.[/#0000ff]
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Are the tilapia the fish that are colored black and white with pink underneath the throat? I also caught some in the small bluegill pond, but was wondering if they were tilapias. The tilapia I see at the grocery store are much darker with no pink coloring near the throat.
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[cool][#0000ff]I understand that there are more and more of the small tilapia turning up in the bluegill pond. They are very competitive and have been known to take over lakes that were formerly populated by other species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The coloration sounds about right. There are several species of tilapia, and some of them are popular aquarium fish. Most folks suspect that the Blue Lake fish were transplants from someone who wanted to see his or her pets in a bigger "tank". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sometimes color is not always the easiest way to describe fish. Water chemistry, diet, different color phases through different growth periods can all affect colors. Then, there are the spawning colors. Most species color up a bit when they get frisky.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am fairly certain that the Blue Lake tilapia are "Nile tilapia", which are also one of the most widely raised tilapia in fish farms. They do get darker in fresh water than the brackish water of Blue Lakes, and bigger ones will also be darker. Add to that the fish often turn darker after they die. Only a fisheries biologist can tell us for sure.[/#0000ff]
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Hey do we know the the bag limits are and the regulations on these fish? And I understand that the water is warm, but how is the weather there?

[cool][#0000ff]As an illegally introduced fish, there are currently no bag or possession limits.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The weather will be about the same as that for Wendover. [url "http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USUT0270?from=search_city"]HERE'S A LINK[/url][/#0000ff]
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The air is usually as cold as a well diggers bottom and it just gets colder when the wind blows but man, when you hit a nice day... it can be the best place on earth... no sound for miles and miles except for wildlife and the occasional plane. Around April or May, it starts to warm up but the downside to that is so do the skeeters and noseeums. The bugs in the summer could make it pretty unbearable if you get too close to the shore.... there are ways around that though and thats a secret I'm keeping. Its not bug spray either... [cool] I hadn't really thought about the limit question on Tilapia Dude... the no limit is a good point.... I guess maybe its time to perform a little ethnic cleansing in the bluegill ponds and take home some Tilapia strips for a deep fry. Ah, why discriminate... might as well weed out some gill fries too....
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[cool][#0000ff]Need any help? Another potential use for the little tykes is Kitty fodder. They are not protected and they make great bait strips.[/#0000ff]
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