The Tilapia is back in 4MR
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TurbineBlade
Dec 21, 2015, 11:08:24 AM12/21/15
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I'm 98% sure that's what it was anyway. I haven't caught it since that one time 2 years back, but someone surely will before too long. It was either that, or an unusually large, off-color giant gourami. Sat was average, Sun much better.
Still has hundreds of LMB, some yellow perch, bluegill, crappie, and a few catfish. You can catch so many fish on a fly that they'll wear the point down and destroy all the materials tied to it.
Saw a massive catfish meandering around, but I think he was blind (cataracts, battle scars).
Just my opinion, but the outfall sucks compared to the other spots recently. Don't waste your life away standing there when you can be hooking up on every other cast elsewhere ;). Unless that's what you like.
Gene
Scott B.
Dec 21, 2015, 11:42:04 AM12/21/15
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Are you fishing right at the water treatment plant, or more upstream?
Rob Snowhite
Dec 21, 2015, 12:18:05 PM12/21/15
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Gene had a bent rod all morning Saturday.. Loads of white perch in outflow that ignored all flies. Did see a small goldfish in there making me want to tie up all orange Clousers.
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TurbineBlade
Dec 21, 2015, 12:36:22 PM12/21/15
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Yep! Saw Rob out there making some roll casts -- I tried my best to keep out of the way of his news article research (I think that's what you said?). Sunday was easier without the wind, and the bite was great. As I was leavning I watched 2 spin guys and 1 fly guy with a bright yellow rod planted at the outfall. Don't get me wrong -- the outfall can be great, but I move on if they aren't biting well.
Scott - I fish all around the place, but usually not too far upstream of the outfall. It seems like as it gets colder and colder, fewer fish seem to hang out up there by those poles. I could be wrong though.....wouldn't be the first time.
BTW -- some nice La-Froyg warmed me up immensely (Beth picked some up). I love that stuff!
Gene ("The fish are not coming out of the outfall tube...no matter how much you stare") TB
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:18:05 PM UTC-5, Rob Snowhite wrote:
Gene had a bent rod all morning Saturday.. Loads of white perch in outflow that ignored all flies. Did see a small goldfish in there making me want to tie up all orange Clousers.
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--I'm 98% sure that's what it was anyway. I haven't caught it since that one time 2 years back, but someone surely will before too long. It was either that, or an unusually large, off-color giant gourami. Sat was average, Sun much better.Still has hundreds of LMB, some yellow perch, bluegill, crappie, and a few catfish. You can catch so many fish on a fly that they'll wear the point down and destroy all the materials tied to it.Saw a massive catfish meandering around, but I think he was blind (cataracts, battle scars).Just my opinion, but the outfall sucks compared to the other spots recently. Don't waste your life away standing there when you can be hooking up on every other cast elsewhere ;). Unless that's what you like.Gene
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Justin Schiavone
Dec 21, 2015, 12:50:46 PM12/21/15
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Tilapia supposedly eat poop. Only fitting you'd find them in 4mr. What kind of fly did eat it? One of those SHs?
D. Walker
Dec 21, 2015, 12:58:13 PM12/21/15
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Tilapia do eat poop.
I saw something on tv a while back that catfish farms also raise tilapia because they feed the catfish poop to the tilapia thus doubling their profit..... its been a few years since I saw it so hopefully my memory serves me correctly
Rob Snowhite
Dec 21, 2015, 2:07:06 PM12/21/15
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Maybe the tilapia will eat corn flies
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Justin Schiavone
Dec 21, 2015, 2:37:26 PM12/21/15
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Cool fly Rob. I'll have to remember that for carp fisheries where people throw corn to them (more abundant in the Pittsburgh region than you'd imagine). However, I think a catfish-poo fly would be a better option, per D. Walker.
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 12:07:06 PM UTC-7, Rob Snowhite wrote:
Maybe the tilapia will eat corn flies
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--Tilapia do eat poop.I saw something on tv a while back that catfish farms also raise tilapia because they feed the catfish poop to the tilapia thus doubling their profit..... its been a few years since I saw it so hopefully my memory serves me correctly
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Tilapia supposedly eat poop. Only fitting you'd find them in 4mr. What kind of fly did eat it? One of those SHs?
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 9:08:24 AM UTC-7, TurbineBlade wrote:I'm 98% sure that's what it was anyway. I haven't caught it since that one time 2 years back, but someone surely will before too long. It was either that, or an unusually large, off-color giant gourami. Sat was average, Sun much better.Still has hundreds of LMB, some yellow perch, bluegill, crappie, and a few catfish. You can catch so many fish on a fly that they'll wear the point down and destroy all the materials tied to it.Saw a massive catfish meandering around, but I think he was blind (cataracts, battle scars).Just my opinion, but the outfall sucks compared to the other spots recently. Don't waste your life away standing there when you can be hooking up on every other cast elsewhere ;). Unless that's what you like.Gene
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TurbineBlade
Dec 21, 2015, 3:06:25 PM12/21/15
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If I recall without searching the database on here, mine took a blacknose dace. Hard fighter too, surprisingly.
Gene
Justin Schiavone
Dec 21, 2015, 4:35:20 PM12/21/15
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Dang. That's pretty cool.
Dalton Terrell
Dec 22, 2015, 2:39:20 PM12/22/15
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Gene, maybe it was an escapee from inside the facility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzK-8qFKm1Q
Dalton
D. Walker
Dec 22, 2015, 3:11:35 PM12/22/15
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Dalton that's where I saw it!!!
Ashley Frohwein
Dec 22, 2015, 5:02:50 PM12/22/15
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I last caught a Tilapia (I think it was a Nile Tilapia?) about a year ago at 4MR. They def look like toilet-dwellers.
Nedak
Dec 23, 2015, 10:25:37 PM12/23/15
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I caught a tilapia down in Saint Marteen, two guys hauling trash were watching when I landed it. One guy took it home to eat. Poop eater plus polluted water where that one came from...I don't even want to speculate.
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Brad
Dec 29, 2015, 10:39:12 AM12/29/15
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I work in fisheries. All of the imported tilapia in US markets (which is damn near all of it) is fed a steady diet of antibiotics and pig/chicken/duck/human shit. Don't eat tilapia. Ever.
Dave Stephenson
Dec 30, 2015, 10:31:15 AM12/30/15
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I ate Tilapia fresh caught out of Lake Victoria in Uganda, almost 20 years ago. They flash fried the whole gutted fish in boiling coconut oil. Admit it was pretty tasty...NOW I know why they were catching them from the same waters the hippos hung out in.
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Dalton Terrell
Dec 30, 2015, 10:38:43 AM12/30/15
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Earlier this year I stayed with the first lady's folks in Fort Myers, FL on a golf course, where there were tons of Tilapia on spawning beds near the shore of the ponds. I got a few to bite, but all struck short. The family buys imported Tilapia from the grocery store all the time, but refused my offer to try to harvest one from the "filthy golf course water".
Dalton
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ric...@urbanangler.com
Dec 30, 2015, 5:58:45 PM12/30/15
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D,
With The amount of fertilizer and pesticides in golf course ponds, you should be wary.
Earlier this year I stayed with the first lady's folks in Fort Myers, FL on a golf course, where there were tons of Tilapia on spawning beds near the shore of the ponds. I got a few to bite, but all struck short. The family buys imported Tilapia from the grocery store all the time, but refused my offer to try to harvest one from the "filthy golf course water".
Dalton
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