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Offline D. Tiller

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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2009, 09:23:10 pm »
Nope! Mostly hydro power so I doubt we have them here. Salmon? Ya betcha!!!!
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2009, 11:56:52 am »
All we have in VA is carp, longnose gar, bowfin, and northern snakehead. The gar are probably the tastiest because I heard they taste like lobster.
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2009, 09:20:41 am »
Looks like a lot of fun. We have one power plant cooling lake near here that has tilapia in it. They don't get much bigger than bluegills here, but they sure taste good.
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Offline trad_bowhunter1965

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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2009, 12:23:32 pm »
Thanks Pete that was Awesome.Blake
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2009, 10:01:55 am »
 awesome! good to see some other bowfishers, i like the primitive fish head also. -jimmy
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Offline Bone pile

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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2009, 12:50:44 pm »
I never shot any with a bow (yet) my son has.I go out and slay em with a mullet(cast) net.I've gotten 50-60 at a time for fish frys.love em on the grill too.I'll have to get me one of those arrows and go run a couple through.
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2009, 08:39:48 pm »
I see folks throwin' a net for them,but the point with me is gettin' to bowhunt something worth eatin' in the summer time. ;)  God Bless
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2009, 12:39:31 pm »
I saw some big tilapia in a pond near Charleston last week-didn't realize they lived that far north without being in a powerplant cooling lake. These were biguns, and they were on their spawning beds-I was wishing I had a bow with me.
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2009, 10:36:14 pm »
 If the Lake has deep water they can make it through some pretty cold spells. It gets in the Teen's down here in Lakeland and we have enough to support a commercial netting economy.
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Re: Tilapia hunt
« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2009, 01:17:42 am »

     They are all over in the canals, in Palm Beach county.  The ones you buy in the stores, are mostly from China, or farm raised here, and you don't want to know what they feed them. :o

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