Gills and Tilapia

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I'm no Gill'expert,byfar.The tilapia had fry in its mouth when I landed him............

Great gills!!

Man ! thats some great gills you got there ! thanks for the pic`s
We buy the tilapia fillets from the grocery store , mostly in the winter when the fishin drops off......

Nice Gills now the question??? What's the difference between the Tilapia I get in the store and what your catching there???

Fatman

Nice gills!
There's no difference Fatman. Tilapia have been released into the wild through flooding and unauthorized stocking. Mostly from flooding of aquaculture facilities I think.

All I can say is wow!!!:)

Beautiful gills there.

nice gills!do tilapia normaly get that big?can they survive in cooler waters?would be awesome if they were stocked in places,as long as they don't effect the ecosystem in a negative way ;)

what do you catch talapia on? i think we have them here in florida in a couple lakes, just need to know what to put infront of their mouth so they will bite it.

We had some in Lochloosa but I think the long freezes we had this year killed em. I never could get em to bite anything so I used my frog gig to get em. They would come to the top in the pads and spatterdocks and just laze around like they were sunning theirselves.

I saw some folks catching tilapia by using grass tied on a hook. I also saw a few
caught on worms...but I think that was more an exception than a rule. Has anybody
found a bait they would actually bite with some regularity??

pegleg, loochloosa was the lake i was talkin about too, i have heard of em but i have never seen any while fishin in the pads, maybe they are gone now, who knows.

Ive caught them on crickets fishing for bluegill on okeechobee