(1) Tilapia is a demersal fish with a wide and varied diet. Commonly used fishing baits are: earthworms, dough, rice, red worms and so on. Red worms are the best. There is a kind of tilapia frozen bait, its effect is far more than the traditional bait.

(2) Fishing tackle is generally 2.4 to 6.3 meters of hand rod is good, fishing line to 0.15 to 0.25 mm pick line is appropriate, floating plastic standing float, hooks with 3 to 5 long-shanked Iseni hooks. The length of the fishing line is about 2.5 to 3.5 meters, whichever is easier to operate. When fishing, the lower end of the pendant is required to be on the ground, and the upper end is suspended so that the hook is facing the sky.

(3) Tilapia eat a lot of food, strong clustering, so the bait required to spread a large amount of bait, generally spread in the offshore about 1 meter, into a band 60 cm wide and 1.5 meters long. The dosage is 2 to 3 kilograms. Available vegetable cake, bean cake, chicken feed, duck feed, chicken liver as bait.

Tilapia often don't move after swallowing the hook, and the drift just changes from upright to oblique side. If you find this situation, immediately lift the rod, pull the fish out of the nest, and then lift and pull the bank, so as not to alarm the fish.

Fishing for tilapia should not be done with sinking or hanging hooks. In addition, tilapia have small sharp teeth in their mouths, and their arm fins, ventral fins and dorsal fins are hard and easy to stab, so you should wear gloves when hooking this fish to protect your safety. When you remove the hook, cover the fish with a towel and use a hook remover to remove the hook.