Northwest Fishing Reports

I heard recently that there are Tilapia in the Skykomish. So for anyone that wants to specificly target Tilapia, I used two rigs while Tilapia fishing in Cali. One rig is to tie on a size 8 or 10 baitholder hook directly to your main line. Then pinch on a splitshot two feet above the hook. Then thread two kernels of sweet corn on the hook, thread one kernel above the hook on top of the eye. Keep one kernel on the hook just below the eye. The other rig is a simple bobber and bait set up used for panfish except use corn instead. Please read this and get rid of the Cichlids in the sky!

NimmunDay wrote:I heard recently that there are Tilapia in the Skykomish. So for anyone that wants to specificly target Tilapia, I used two rigs while Tilapia fishing in Cali. One rig is to tie on a size 8 or 10 baitholder hook directly to your main line. Then pinch on a splitshot two feet above the hook. Then thread two kernels of sweet corn on the hook, thread one kernel above the hook on top of the eye. Keep one kernel on the hook just below the eye. The other rig is a simple bobber and bait set up used for panfish except use corn instead. Please read this and get rid of the Cichlids in the sky!

The water from the Sky is going to be too cold for them. Are you sure they weren't suckers or whitefish?

The fish pictured in the report was definitely a Tilapia. How it came to be in the Sky? Most likely someone released them so their pets could live happily ever after in the wild... or until they die a slow death as their organs shut down when the Sky cools this fall.

They may find respite in the warmer areas of the Snohomish sloughs, some of that water will remain warm enough for them. It would be a good idea to try and catch them out. I wonder how many of them there are in there. I've heard of cichlids in lakes, and I once caught a 16" oscar out of Plummer Lake in Centralia when I was a kid when fishing for bluegills. I took it home and put it in my aquarium. I bet you could catch them on cichlid pellets from Petco too. That's really funny, although a big population of them could become a problem for ocean bound smolts.

Where was the report/pic? I'm really interested to see it, the Sky seems like a very unlikely place for a cichlid to survive for very long...

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I googled Tilapia images and yep, that is sure what it looks like to me I also would like to know where it was caught - We buy em from Costco, if they are eating size, being that they are out of the river (and not like Greenlake or Lake Washington or something) I'd give em a try..

Thanks Kzoo! Anybody know where exactly on the sky he caught them?
There's several asian markets around where you can buy them, that size, live. I wonder if there's some animal rights activist out there buying them and releasing them like the lobster lady in Mukilteo?

blurock wrote:Thanks Kzoo! Anybody know where exactly on the sky he caught them?
There's several asian markets around where you can buy them, that size, live. I wonder if there's some animal rights activist out there buying them and releasing them like the lobster lady in Mukilteo?

Actually that sounds more plausible than someone releasing overgrown pets. I wonder if the Markets would buy em back if you brought em in? Maybe a little extra spending $$?

If the markets wont, I've heard a lot of Chinese restaurants will buy extra fish lol or trade for some egg rolls