Holly Hill, Florida

Funday.

You know it is going to be a good morning when you round the creek bend and see a bunch of silver rolling in front of you…

Tailing tilapia? Took a lunch break walk down to the pond to play with the 6' 1wt on some bluegills and possibly a bass or two. We have had some rain so the water level is up and there was some good vegetation along the edges. After a few nice bluegills came to hand I looked down the shoreline and swore I saw a tail come up and quickly disappear again. Moving up a little closer and I find a decent sized tilapia head down grazing in the weeds. I quickly switched over to a Fl. orange beadhead squirmy worm, worked it right off the fishes nose, and it was quickly inhaled. Even on a 1wt the fish fought like a bucket filled with water, but a good sized fish none the less. These fish have been tricky and I never have developed a solid pattern to get them to eat, even putting flies right on their beds, but seeing one tail was a first.