"oh yes i forgot to say i heard that talapia will die in december time frame and will float along the shoreline. i mentioned this solution to my wife last night and she did not want dead fish in december around the edges of the pond"

That was the biggest negative I heard before I stocked Tilapia. Todd Overton told me not to worry about it, if I had predators in my pond. He was absolutely correct. In ponds with LMB and HSB there were virtually no dead Tilapia along the shoreline. In a pond without any predators, the shoreline was lined with small dead Tilapia....but even that wasn't the problem that many had said. Nature provides a clean up crew and within a few days they were all gone. Not to worry.