Rad,

Great to hear from you again....hadn't noticed any posts from your part of the world lately and I miss them.

I've been so busy with Hurricane clean-up that I have not had any time to "condition" my Tilapia as you have done. I do believe your technique would work if conditioning applied.

However, Saturday evening while throwing a small Mepps spinner to catch some cull LMB, I hooked and landed a Tilapia of about 3 pounds. This fish was stocked in April of this year in a pond completely without fertilizers or artificial feeding of any type. Three pounds in one growing season is remarkable, IMO, and all without any feeding whatsoever.

What a surprise to hook that fish...much stronger than a LMB of the same size. I've got a picture I will e-mail you, but can't post on Forum because of firewall problems. I'll be trying to catch Tilapia in the coming weeks and will report if any luck...keep the posts coming