03-10-2006, 02:11 PM
[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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[#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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