Thread: Tilapia

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

Musta been farm raised ones I've had at my local Chinese Buffet ... not much taste and lots of bones.

They have the same bones as a Crappie, just bigger. They are easy to fillet, thick skin and big scales. Farm raised are usually about the same size, maybe 1.5 lbs? ..they grow fast.. any bigger and weight gain to food cost ratio makes it less profitable.. at least thats what I heard

Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill

IMOHO there is a big difference in the taste of farm raised and wild fish.

I’ve just had farm raised

Originally Posted by Slab

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Caught while trolling for crappie. Fought like a banshee. I've never caught one in the mouth, my buddie William was soaking the heck out of a bunny butt in Garlic Slabsauce. I think the Garlic Slabsauce is what made him bite IMHO! dono

Beautiful fish too. Nest off my Sea Wall, have real big beds. I've snagged them there but they've always fought there way off the hook.

Had no idea they got this large!

Routinely occurs when anglers have 4' arms!Just sayin', keep puttin' 'em on my Christmas list! Obviously shows that "somebody's " been naughty NOT Nice! Dang these factory-spec arms!!:-'banghead'

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Originally Posted by RobertFL

If I remember correctly.. A guy I used to see cast netting Tilapia had a cast net with 1 inch mesh and the weights looked larger than the average cast net.. He said the larger mesh helped the net sink faster. He was a tall thin fella, he could throw that big net with ease.

They do use a large mesh net, ive watched they guy at the bait shop making them, but most guys i see arent big, but there are usually several of them working together.
As a result of what ive learned here i think the next one i catch will come home with me.

I watched a small Asian feller cast a net on Jesup and when he cinched it up and started lifting, he could barely get it aboard. Full of large tilapia and crappie too, which he kicked back over the side once he had them on the deck. Some of those fish were very large. Can’t say I’ve ever eaten one. The one I got was at the beginning of the Covid era and the guy fishing next to me was fishing to feed family, 3 had lost their jobs. That fish went home with him and a few of my crappie too. There are some in the river that are so light colored they look like ghosts in the tannic water.

I caught 17 last week my first time ever keeping and eating them . Very good eating and white meat .


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Originally Posted by Cashman

I caught 17 last week my first time ever keeping and eating them . Very good eating and white meat .


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How you ben catching them, net? I'd really like to catch them with hook and line. Love to know how.