Steam Plant 12/1

[Travis C.]

Went out to GSP for a few hours with my wife's nephew. He had only caught a couple fish in his total fishing lifetime so we kind of blew that up yesterday.

Species caught were: tilapia, white bass, crappie, largemouth, striper, bluegill and sauger.

Biggest was a shade over 18" sauger and a 1.5 lb white bass. Ended up taking them home in addition to 30 tilapia for some experimental cooking. Some are smaller but shouldn't be a problem whole wrapped in bacon. We were just trying to do our part in helping the TWRA rid these pests.

[MNfisher]

Nice! I need to get on them tilapia!

[TNBronzeback]

Nice haul! thats what im looking for! them glowing eyes....they call to me!
Thats a mess of tilapia! sprinkle some lemon pepper on them them filets and toss em in the oven....thats some good eats right there!

[jad2t]

Wow nice mess of fish! A couple things...

1] Nothing is bad wrapped in bacon
2] I thought the steam plant was closed off...

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Wow nice mess of fish! A couple things...

1] Nothing is bad wrapped in bacon
2] I thought the steam plant was closed off...

I fully agree with number 1.

The canal is closed off with a barrier going all the way across the mouth and warning buoys out further in front of it.

They will shoot on site Jimmy. I wouldn't risk it if I were you.

[agelesssone]

MAN, that is a nice haul! Got you some good eats not to mention the fun you had catching them. Great day!

[nomad60]

Wow, nice catches there, Travis! Tilapia is some of my favorite fish.

Originally Posted by jad2t

1] Nothing is bad wrapped in bacon

Amen to that!

[Alphahawk]

Great looking bunch of fish Travis! Congrats.





Regards

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Great looking bunch of fish Travis! Congrats.





Regards

You'd really like these Alpha.

They fight kind of like a bluegill and white bass mix. Some you get that don't do anything but most have a good pull even small ones.

I should send Jeff the pic. All the tilapia were caught on either a white trout mag or a pink trout mag.

[Alphahawk]

Originally Posted by Travis C.

You'd really like these Alpha.

They fight kind of like a bluegill and white bass mix. Some you get that don't do anything but most have a good pull even small ones.

I should send Jeff the pic. All the tilapia were caught on either a white trout mag or a pink trout mag.

Yeah I would love to get into some of those. You should send him your pics and report. There are two lakes in Arkansas...the equivalent of our TWRA Lakes...... that stock those each year and as the water gets too cool and they start coming to the surface they let people go out and get all they can catch. It was just a month ago....I think.....someone posted on the forum one they got close to Bledsoe Creek. Seems with your catch those things are doing well at the steam plant. I just wonder how they are doing in the rest of the lake and do you know if they will adjust to their climate?



Regards

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

I just wonder how they are doing in the rest of the lake and do you know if they will adjust to their climate?


Regards

I really don't know a whole lot about them. Seems like the furthest downstream I have heard of a catch is in Station Camp and upstream being Bledsoe.

If they are blue tilapia (which it seems to me) from my understanding can live in waters no colder than 45 degrees. That leaves open a big amount of water.

[Reel Tune]

Nice Travis. We took home 5-6 Tilapia (enough for a meal for the both of us) from a trip there last year. They were delicious. I do not like store bought Tiliapia, but Old Hickory Tilapia were tastey.