Tilapia

[PeteC]

My wife and I went down for a short tilapia hunt saturday morning and got 10.It was tough with the wind and cloudy skies,but we still had a great time. God Bless


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[cracker]

Wow nice catch um kill uh shooting. I gotta try that some day.

[Pappy]

Nice job,who got the most,I am betting on her.
   Pappy

[jeff halfrack]

that's cool!!  you got  a  close up  of  a  fish?   I  would  like  to  see  what  I've  been  eating.

[PeteC]

Jeff,here's a pic from a few weeks ago,my wife and daughter.It's a little closer view.God Bless

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[cowboy]

That's great Pete! Man, I may have to take you up on that offer sometime. We're through in Troup but I might drive over from the house sometime to get in on that action..

[Sparrow]

Do them things bite flies and lures ?  '  Frank

[PeteC]

Frank,yes and no. The lake record blue tilapia,@ 5#, was caught with a flyrod with a Clauser minnow fly,but ,they are primarily vegetation feeders. God Bless

[stickbender]

Jeff halftrack;
     The ones you have been eating, are farm raised, and you don't want to know what they are fed.    Saw a segment on Dirty Jobs, once, and it was at a Tilapia farm.  Check the package if it says China, you take your chances.  I don't eat anything form China. ......After some of the stuff they have been caught putting in foods, and medicines, and to their own people also.  They have a lot industrial pollution, in the rivers.  But your fish, is filleted, and packaged nicely, so you won't see the third eye, or the little nodules........

                                                                                 Wayne

[Michael C.]

Where are you shooting those at, what lake?

[PeteC]

Michael,we usually go to Martin creek or Fairfield,but they are in many coal fired power plant lakes. God Bless

[JW_Halverson]

I've raised a couple million tilapia for the aquaculture industry here in the States, but the low overseas labor costs have pretty much killed the industry here.  I wish you luck finding US raised tilapia.  As for what they are fed overseas, the tilapia is the goat of the fish world. 

In the Phillipines they raise chickens in floating coops where their feces falls into the shallow lagoons to fertilize the water.  The tilapia then feed on the overly abundant algae giving the chicken farmers a "bonus" crop.  The chickens can produce a pound of meat for every 1.8 lbs of feed, but the fertilizer in the lake then produces approximately 12 lbs of fish for every pound of feed thrown to the chickens.  Butt then the fish taste like s***. 

Those Florida wildcaught live in cleaner water and probably taste a lot better.

[PeteC]

JW,these Texas fish are delicious.Fillets are white and flakey.I rate em high,and would'nt hunt em if I did'nt like them. God Bless

[TRACY]

Good shooting and good eats! Pete, ever use flint knapped points on fish?

Tracy

[hawkbow]

Great job... i will be in Texas all summer so will have to get out and try for some of those fish... great looking bows by the way... Hawk