I saw a hundred tilapia on beds walking the canals. I thought to myself how easy it would be for a bow fisherman. I saw Mayan cichlids and tilapia but no bluegills or sunfish not that you mention it Flippin-Out.

Yes, it would be easy to shoot a few of them. With the hundreds of miles of canals available as habitat, 100,000 of them wouldn't be missed. It was a sad loss to lose the bluegill that used to be just about everywhere. The tilapia are so dominant no other similar species can survive in their presence.

It is odd because tilapia eat most plants and bluegill eat mostly little live things. Maybe because tilapia get bigger so once grown they have no predators while the gills are eaten by bass and peacocks and everything else. they cannot compete with the breeding of the tilapia. Just my hypothesis.

There are still lots of shad. I saw several peacocks between inches and 2 lbs swimming among the tilapia beds. I am sure they were waiting for the little guys to hatch and would go in kill mode on the fry.

I want to go back real bad...