all of us that crappie fish lake talquin absolutely love it. i am lucky enough to live on lake talquin. and fished it years before moving here. and, this looks to be one of the best years. i've had my first 3 pounder and more than 12 over 2 lbs. already. i threw nearly all back. but, i just want to ask everyone not to overdo the love. keeping so many fish that i see many do will hurt the future of the lake. and, there are thousands more cormorants here than ever before eating shad and other fish. i saw a lake i lived near and fished often in colorado get absolutely destroyed by overfishing (trout) - stagecoach reservoir near steamboat springs. fisherman from a town nearby would catch a limit in the morning, go home, and come back in the afternoon and catch and take home another limit. there is NOT an unlimited supply of crappie in the lake. i remind myself to throw fish back every trip. and, i understand it is much easier to do that since i live on the lake and not in georgia or another nearby state. i would also like to see our lake get even better. i would love to see the crappie approach the size of the great crappie lakes in mississippi where a 3 pounder is caught much more often than here. i think a size limit of 11 inches, and eventually 12 inches would accomplish that as it has in grenada and the other mississippi lakes. and, perhaps a creel limit of 20 instead of 25. there is a meeting in the tallahassee are noted below with the florida game and fish commission to discuss black crappie management. i plan to go and suggest these rules changes for talquin. please attend and make our beloved lake better!!
Location Date Time
Northwest Region
Lake Jackson Community Center, 3840 N. Monroe Street, Suite 301, Tallahassee, FL 32303		 March 26, 2019 6:30pm - 8pm