Fish activity puzzle

tailingendloop77

My in-laws live in a gated community with retention ponds, which have small bream and bass. However, at dusk, around 7 p.m. each night, the ponds come alive with boils from fish, but they won't eat anything I've thrown at them so far, including corn.

Are they carp, or some other species this angler doesn't know? Any ideas for bait/flies/lures? Thanks in advance.

mplspug

Tilapia?  I don't know if I have ever seen the make boils on their own, usually it is when I spook them.  Otherwise I see them gulping at the surface.

Lostconch

Tilapia boil behind my house every night.  I have not had much success catching them on a rod and reel though. 

AlwaysLearningMore

If they're not very large, less than about a foot in length, then it could be brown hoplo.  A non-native armored catfish that rolls on the surface.

Tony Roma

Get a cast net and find out

Lostconch

I have caught again amount of tilapia in my cast net .