Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose tilapia ?

There are a couple-three forum members (South TX and maybe FL) with year-round tilapia. So there's some direct experience with that here.

Meadowlark has fished some LMB lakes in Mexico with tilapia. He reported that the ones that have a lot of tilapia netting/trapping by the locals have pretty good bass fishing. Ones which don't have additional tilapia removal can have problems hanging on to a good bass population - like with many species, a huge number of hungry tilapia ca interfere with the spawning of less numerous fish (e.g. LMB).