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I have not been posting reports but still fishing. Two weeks ago the fishing was slow and the past two weekends, the fishing has been on fire. Due to some DUMB reports I posted on other sites, the lake has been packed as of recent but things are finally starting to slow down. For some odd reason though, the Bass Fisherman are having tourney after tourney and had four this last weekend. I also find this odd because the bass are spawning now and I know that bass fisherman usually frown upon catching fish on their beds. Oh well, I dont care either way.
Anyways, over the past two trips, I have landed numerous fish above 18lbs with the largest going around 26lbs or so. I weighed one of the smaller fish and he weighed in at 22.8lbs. The slower trip that I had only landed me two fish in the boat and made for a long drive and a long morning. That morning, there was a MAJOR bass tourney that had about 60+ boats all taking off at the same time and once they took off, the fishing shut down.
While the fishing was slow, I went to the discharge area and tossed for a while and kept getting blown up with no hookups. Well, after a while I decided to toss the cast net and see what was down below. (I knew what it was, I wasnt looking for small reds or bass) First cast with a castnet, four big tilapia are brought on board. Second cast, three big tilapia brought on board, third cast three more and the story repeated itself for about five more cast. The whole deck of the boat is now covered in tilapia and its time to call it a day. CRAZY.. The tilapia are spawning and are very thick. They were not trying to eat my trap but were trying to get it away from their nest. The big males are going wild and have BRIGHT BLUE faces. Great eating and fun to catch, even in a cast net. LOL
Heres a few pics and I will post more when I get them. I took quite a few over the last few trips but have yet to get the film developed. I usually use Digital camera but this time used film. Film seems to take much better pics.
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Anyways, over the past two trips, I have landed numerous fish above 18lbs with the largest going around 26lbs or so. I weighed one of the smaller fish and he weighed in at 22.8lbs. The slower trip that I had only landed me two fish in the boat and made for a long drive and a long morning. That morning, there was a MAJOR bass tourney that had about 60+ boats all taking off at the same time and once they took off, the fishing shut down.
While the fishing was slow, I went to the discharge area and tossed for a while and kept getting blown up with no hookups. Well, after a while I decided to toss the cast net and see what was down below. (I knew what it was, I wasnt looking for small reds or bass) First cast with a castnet, four big tilapia are brought on board. Second cast, three big tilapia brought on board, third cast three more and the story repeated itself for about five more cast. The whole deck of the boat is now covered in tilapia and its time to call it a day. CRAZY.. The tilapia are spawning and are very thick. They were not trying to eat my trap but were trying to get it away from their nest. The big males are going wild and have BRIGHT BLUE faces. Great eating and fun to catch, even in a cast net. LOL
Heres a few pics and I will post more when I get them. I took quite a few over the last few trips but have yet to get the film developed. I usually use Digital camera but this time used film. Film seems to take much better pics.
