You just never know: Out and about today on the local golf course ponds in my development. Bass were biting and I had a few and then hooked this. I swear it weighed 10lbs😂 Had to...

graybeard49 Loc: Bradenton, fl

Out and about today on the local golf course ponds in my development.
Bass were biting and I had a few and then hooked this. I swear it weighed 10lbs😂
Had to retrieve it from the grass and couldn’t(really wouldn’t) pick it up by hand.
Had to use pliers. I am assuming some sort of Carp. Wadda u thunk😎

HosChap Loc: Deland, FL

Grass carp don’t have sucker lips. May be the culprit

sawheeler52 Loc: Escondido, CA

I believe that may be a tilapia.
If so, it's a big one to me.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

graybeard49 wrote:

Out and about today on the local golf course ponds in my development.
Bass were biting and I had a few and then hooked this. I swear it weighed 10lbs😂
Had to retrieve it from the grass and couldn’t(really wouldn’t) pick it up by hand.
Had to use pliers. I am assuming some sort of Carp. Wadda u thunk😎

Whatever it is it's a chunk 👍🎣

charlykilo Loc: Garden Valley Ca

sawheeler52 wrote:

I believe that may be a tilapia.
If so, it's a big one to me.

sawheeler52 Loc: Escondido, CA

Having lived in Florida for a few years fishing the golf courses and neighborhood flood control ponds, it looked like the tilapia I used to see.
I uploaded your image to lens.google.com and came up with this.
This is a handy website to identify any image in a photo.

https://lens.google.com/search?ep=subb&hl=en&re=df&p=AbrfA8p2g7dp3tFWMwTxarJ7ERdLHwV-FcgphYVulCgOAdaHj_pEmJo0SLsCtT8mWLaG07rFUsyY5SVg1hI7x8addWUCBso29joXlrYnZadjFK2hCtEMb7wiEl3dH0vAAH8EpEP2uzN5De7K6vTIwNaCeAESaIn_N5JBvTn5wUnVQ3HPi4Nvd-7mslKwuZZBtTEWYqvKhiYcNP2ztw%3D%3D#lns=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsIkVrY0tKRE5tWXpnMVpURTBMVGcxT1RRdE5HUTRZaTA0TkRoaUxUTTJOelJoWTJZeU5HTmxZaElmWjNsQlRrOUVYMDVFV1VWbWMwNXBYM3AxVm1GWlRWWnlhV0UwWlRaQ1p3PT0iXQ==
Stephen

Norman Havens Loc: Port Charlotte Florida

I'm thinking tilapia

HosChap Loc: Deland, FL

I think you fellas are right.

Josephwroca Loc: Tampa

Wow. Must’ve been quite the fight!

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

graybeard49 wrote:

Out and about today on the local golf course ponds in my development.
Bass were biting and I had a few and then hooked this. I swear it weighed 10lbs😂
Had to retrieve it from the grass and couldn’t(really wouldn’t) pick it up by hand.
Had to use pliers. I am assuming some sort of Carp. Wadda u thunk😎

That is a tilapia but out of the ponds by the golf course I would not eat any of the fish for the runoff of fertilize,

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

Chuckay wrote:

That is a tilapia but out of the ponds by the golf course I would not eat any of the fish for the runoff of fertilize,

They're the best Snook bait you can get, catch them in a bait net about 4-5" and the Snook can't pass it up,, that's why they run up Peace River like they do...at times I catch more and bigger snook on Peace River (ten minutes from my house) than I do in Charlotte harbor 🎣🎣 60 miles away...

graybeard49 Loc: Bradenton, fl

Thanks for the info. BTW any fresh water fish, for me, is catch and release.😃

graybeard49 Loc: Bradenton, fl

Thanks. Pretty cool app.👍

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

Very cool app.

alaskanaturally Loc: Maryland, Virginia, Ma, RI, Me, Tx, Fl, Ak

graybeard49 wrote:

Out and about today on the local golf course ponds in my development.
Bass were biting and I had a few and then hooked this. I swear it weighed 10lbs😂
Had to retrieve it from the grass and couldn’t(really wouldn’t) pick it up by hand.
Had to use pliers. I am assuming some sort of Carp. Wadda u thunk😎

That's a gorilla of a tilapia!