Lake Hogue and Mallard Lake Receive Tilapia Stocking

Friday, May 21, 2004

Anglers in northeast Arkansas will have another opportunity enjoy tilapia fishing in area lakes. Lake Hogue and Mallard Lake were stocked with record numbers of tilpaia on May 12th. This is the fourth year in a row that these "exotics" have been stocked into public fishing lakes. For the last three years Lake Hogue received annual stockings of adult tilapia as part of a research project to see if they would benefit the lake's largemouth bass population. An unexpected spin-off from the project was that bream anglers found that tilapia were easily caught using bream fishing techniques. Tilapia soon gained a reputation of being hard fighters and as well as being excellent table fare.

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