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So my wife wants to catch some Tilapia but I'm not sure where to go or if they even accessible this time of year. Does anyone know? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Rod
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The only place I know is down by the aligator ponds by Buhl, down in the river.
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Blue Lake by Wendover NV or your local grocery store.[cool]

Windriver
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Did they just recently put hose in there? i did my scuba class there and all i seen was bass
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[quote windriver]Blue Lake by Wendover NV or your local grocery store.[cool]

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There's a post on another board, that there have been a bunch of thieves working the vehicles that are left unattended while the fishermen are out in their boats, or across the pond. Locked vehicles don't seem to matter. Take your Pit Bull.
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I heard someone illegally let them go in their. I have also heard about the breakins while people are fishing.

Windriver
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I see that's how a lot of fisheries get started around here. I didn't know you could catch them below the alligator pond, but i wondered with all those in the ponds how long it would take them to get into the river.
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State record was caught at Swan Falls so they are in the river and breeding. At first they said they couldn't live in the river so there was no problems if some escaped. When they got in the river they said "no worries" they can't breed. Well I don't think the ones being caught in Swan Falls swam that distant overnight. Anyway we ran across some people last year with a couple buckets of them. Said they got them out of a pond in Hagerman/Buhl area and my wife wants to get some.
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across the river from highway 30 at thousand springs there is a tilapea farm as well i picked one up will flipping a spinner there once with a friend
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That farm is not a tilapa farm. I used to deliver feed there and I know for a fact that no tilapa were raised there only trout. The water is too cold for tilapa at that farm. I am not saying you ccould not have got one there. With the warm water coming out of sligars I would say that would be a good place to find them when the river is cold. Ron
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So if you did find a place with tilapia, what do you catch them on? Anyone know what they eat?
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I think they eat algae, supposedly you can raise them in a stock tank and they live on the algae and moss in it.

I've caught them on worms, wet and dry flies, and a few on spinners.

When my boy was 2, he had a Snoopy rod. We went fishing one evening for them. I got him going, and my wife had bad reel troubles. He kept catching and I kept baiting, and pretty soon, he had caught enough for our supper and we never caught a fish.
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I know is Arizona they use them to clean the ponds that they raise Bass in for commercial production. Down there they call them "S**T Eating Carp"
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^ HAHA!!
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I just learned that Tilapia live in our river a couple days ago and I'm excited to catch one! Anyone have any pics of the ones they've caught? What sort of size would be considered average... I catch big bluegills on Gulp Mealworms, think this would work out?
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I recently, earlier this year, got this from TubeDude. Pic is of a 17 1/2 " guy I caught there several years ago. Caught another the next year. Oh well. [frown]

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[#0000ff]Sorry to be the bearer of more bad news. DWR promoted a one day spearfishing event at Blue Lakes...focusing on the big tilapia. There were quite a few killed and not many left.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]From what I hear there are not many tilapia allowed to grow to be any size in the small ponds. They are caught out as fast as they get big enough to get the hook in their mouths.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]Looks like the best tilapia times are over.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]Pat[/#0000ff]
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Dont know if they are still there, but a few years ago I was duck hunting with a buddy on a feild next to challis. There was a warm spring canal that was loaded with them there.
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That is a warm springs canal that happened to be downstream from a Tilapia farm, a mistake was made, some fish escaped, and the locals quickly cleaned them out. I was living there at the time.
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Six or eight? pack from Costco. They eat quite well... Get the lemon sauce in a small bottle at Fred Meyer. Yowza... burp
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