Hopefully no one gets sideways over this post . I couldnt find a place on this forum to post up about Tilapia . We went to the nuclear power plant lake out by Glen Rose , Texas yesterday . Its a by appointment lake and i have heard some really good stories about the truck loads of Tilapia it has and how fun and easy they are to ketch . Well i had a tip or 2 and none of them played out early . We found drum and catfish at first doing what the local folks told us to do . so after about an hour of not ketchn Tilapia we started to just do our own thing . The rig has an 1198 on it and we just cruised the shore line a bit and side scanned . We set her at about 40 foot and didnt go far before we came up on some cat tails and the imaging suggested there was a herd of fish up by them .
Well between the 3 of us it was a cast or 2 and it was on ! Once we understood them we slayed them beyond reality . They are pretty good fighters with a bream like thing at first and then power once they realize what the deal is . we filled up 2 48 quart ice chests by lunchtime and called it a day . They wanted pcs. a worm on gold wire hooks about 18 inches under a float in about 2 foot of water . sure did take a long time to clean all them fish though ...
Anyway i told yawl i was going and thats what i did ....
and as we say in these parts KABOOM ....
till my next adventure hope you have a great day