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Originally Posted by Brian37075
Made it to the steam plant today caught a bunch of yellow bass and three Tilapia. First time of ever catching a Tilipia.
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Arkansas stocks Tilapia in a couple of lakes...or used to. They did it for forage but found out they die when the water hits mid 50's. They continued to stock them and when the Fall of the year came and they got close to dying off they would allow people to go out and keep as many as they caught....so they wouldn't go to waste. I am assuming it is because of the GSP that they are able to winter over there. Some reports say they can't take water lower than mid 60's. I was eating the things in Saudi back in 1980. They thrived in fish farms in that hot climate. Do they fight good?...I have read that on UL tackle they can be a lot of fun.
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