Main Discussion Area > Shooting and Hunting

Tilapia

<< < (4/7) > >>

PeteC:
Mike ,where in Texas are you going to be? The grass,"hydrilla", is growing over pretty bad,but fish can still be taken.We try to go a couple of times a month.Let me hear.
Tracy,I have not tried flint heads,but have used steel trades on long cane shafts.The flint would work ,no doubt. God Bless

broken arrow:
         Very interesting hunting and a great catch . Here on Vancouver Island the Tilapia is farmed on land in large concrete shallow  pens in fields and sold to stores including Superstore .  I have only seen the pens from a distance but they look about 5 feet deep . The Tilapia you show in your pictures are larger than the farmed ones . I have never eaten the fish .

        Here on the Island I cannot hunt fish, with bow and arrow.    We are not allowed to shoot at any of the fish species .   I wish we were allowed to hunt like you . I took 12 mature silver chum salmon last year spincasting a small trout hook that I lead wrap and a body using a glue gun and my wifes finger nail polish .  I have been fishing this river for 30 years and have perfected the GlueGun Fly and a technique .
        Do you need a licence to hunt like this?

                                                     Winston .

jeff halfrack:
  O.K.  B A   the  fly  you  talked  about,,,,  you  now  need to  show  us  more  about  them  :) !!!  maybe  a  build  along?   thanks  jw

PeteC:
Winston,we can only bowfish for non-game fish.The tilapia is an introduced specie gone rampant,but sure is good eatin'.You do need a license to hunt ,except in Texas state parks ,where you don't have to have a license.Pretty good deal huh? My wife and I met a family from V.I. last summer at the Grand Canyon,and they hiked some with us.They were nice folks. God Bless

JW_Halverson:
Of course those Texas tilapia taste great, even a Texican knows not to feed their fish on chicken poop.   >:D

And naturally those fish are bigger than the ones on Vancouver Island, after all everything's bigger in Texas, right?    ;)

As for fishing for them, try to get them on the spawning beds.  The males dig fairly large diameter bowls out of the lakebottons in the shallows and they defend it against any intruders.  They "hit and spit" , so be sure to use smaller hooks on the lures than they normally come with.  Perch pattern Rapala in the shorter lengths work pretty good.  If you want to take time to paint the lure to look like a tilapia, you will do better, just be sure to add red under the gullet and chin area to show breeding colors (unless those aren't Tilapia nilotica, not sure about the other species).

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page