If im not mistaken, it looks just like a fish to me. Yup. Defintly a fish. what else could it be? sorry for being an idiot, but atleast im not wrong! ;D

I sure hope you didn't let it go! If its a sunfish-any kind-its a record!!!!!

Yup, I let her go. I know where she swims, though, so who knows? Maybe I'll get her again one day.

May I recommend a bath in raw egg, dipping the meat in flour with lots of salt and pepper and fried until golden brown the next time you encounter it? ;D

Tilapia is out!

Tilapia eat photoplankton and diminuitive plantlife, they do not hit lures.

Many thousands of fishermen wish that tilapia did hit lures, myself included

Roger

I have found that tilapia are very easy to catch with lures. What always works for me is to fish for them during the spawn. What I do is sight fish when they are on the beds and cast a 3in white grub with pink tail with a little split shot well past the bed. Then I slowly reel it up to the bed and let it drop in on the fish. If it hasn't seen you, the tilapia will pick the grub up in its mouth in an attempt to remove it from the nest. Once that occurs, set the hook and hang on!

That is a talapia i see them everywhere

it would be an odd looking tilapia, but it could be, but I would guess a mayan, but with out a pic of the tail it is hard to tell, as the other pic shows mayans can get very large.

Dang dude, you dug deep into the archives for this one.

Look up Blue Tilapia. I think that may be what it is.

Its a tilapia. We sell whole frozen ones where I work. You could freeze him and put him in the bag with them and that would be a perfect fit.

That is a blue tilapia and I have caught them on crappie jigs, I understand they may hit 10#.

There is also a spotted tilapia, smaller.

These fish are not too aggressive and I've only caught them by chance.

Hale's photo is a mayan cichlid, very aggressive and fight like the devil, much like a peacock, I have caught them 2# on ul........

Yes, the blue tilapia is what you've got there.  Here's a couple of 3#ers.

Tilapia is my vote as well. On another note, please take that UK hat off, go cardinals.

Blue Tilapia

What you have there is common tilapia.