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the weather turned off cold the week of the tourney but most teams still brought a respectible weight to the scales in spite of adverse weather conditions. I was really glad to see the payout of 1400 dollars for first This makes it worth the money you have to spend to be competitive. Congradulations to all that walked away with money and or prizes. Hope to see everyone at lake Talquin.
Thanks Stratos 285, gonna take 13 lbs on Talquin , I believe.
If anybody pulls 13, it will be 285 and his partner........
Well...maybe so....but there is several other teams that is really good on that lake.
That would be a record , first to break 13 lbs in a Ga. Slab Masters Tourney. Gonna be some tough comp.
My money is on Team Crappie Chappy! I am just honored to be around such great folks and professional fishermen and fisher women!
Thanks for the kind words and I agree we have a pretty darn good group of folks fishing with us. Good people and darn good anglers (men and women). Talquin in February has been known to produce some really big slabs. Hope the weather lets these anglers work the lake and not the lake work them. Looking forward to seeing everyone down there. Hope I get a little time to fish myself! Been too long since I have been able to fish on Talquin. Maybe I can get Hooker to let me ride in the back for a while? I could use some lessons on pulling bugs. Hope to have the web site finished tonight. Appreciate ya'lls patience.
Come on down....Plan on being there all week. You welcome to the back seat.......but may have to blindfold you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shine Runner
I fully expect 14 plus lbs to come to the scales. chance is there will be more than 1 over 14 better watch Billy and Scott if they are on hand size could bust 15, can"t say enough about how good Craig and Jason will be either everyone better bring their best game if you don:t want to end up like us last time. The competition will be as strong their as any lake i have ever fished. Wind will be the only reason i can see effecting the weights. I predict 14.37 to win, what do yall think ?
I ain't gonna be able to sleep at night now thinking about those weights........Are we there yet!??!?!!!
you got a treat shinen i ben there . i carried my gps with me :biggrin. don`t tell hooker:yikes
I know Talquin has some good fish but the big ones are waiting till Feb to start biting. Caught lots of "Good" fish but the 2 and 1/2 pounders have been hiding pretty good. There is an excellent shad population and you would be amazed to see the size of the shad inside the Crappie.......unreal. Hope to get down there couple days next week but if not the following week for sure. Don't plan on keeping many fish.....just enjoy the time on the lake. As my grandson told me one time"Pa, don't get no better than this".
Sounds like I need to be fishing Talquin with you guys if you can pull that kind of weight....the fishing is pretty good down there this year but the top end fish aren't there like they were 4 or 5 years ago...I can vouch for prolly 20 or 25 days of fishing from myself and some other really good fisherman the past month and only know of 3 fish that weighed 2 lbs being caught....wish they would raise the limit to 11" instead of 10 and it would save a whole "age class" of fish that are 10.5" right now and allow them to reproduce for another year and maybe get the lake back closer to what it used to be.....afraid it will never be what it was with the fishing pressure it sees now days though.
X2 AUTiger.. Nothing like Talquin 10+ years ago. That lake has been hammered the last 7-8 yrs.
Don't let the blindfold scare ya Dan...he blindfolds me even when I aint fishing with him :fishQuote:
Originally Posted by lightwirehooker
AUTIGER: Would be good to see you at the tournament. Even if just to shoot the bull again.
TNT: A blindfold might help me! I bet he could show a blind man how to catch a Talquin slab.
I agree with Autiger on the 11 inch size fish. Many of the regulars that fish Talquin don't keep a fish unless it's 11+ inches. That size makes a good fillet for supper....I'm getting hungry and may cook some tonight. I caught 1 fish over 2 lbs at Talquin in Nov-Dec.
I don't like to wear HOOKER'S arm out fileting fish so 12 to 15 fish a day is plenty for me. I try to keep better than 12 in. fish and can't remember the last limit I limited out on that size fish. Intil spawn I think I'll be putting back all the big females I catch if I can tell the diffence. The lake is very popular and I believe their's some boys taken out double limit's on good day's. Populations can be over fished and I think it's a shame to over fish a lake just to make you buy a bigger freezer back home.....just my thought's on fihing my home lake.
I imagine there is some back door fish selling going on with the locals.
[QUOTE=Shine Runner;1767300]AUTIGER: Would be good to see you at the tournament. Even if just to shoot the bull again.
Shine.......Good thing there isn't a tournament for shooting the bull. I know for a fact AuTiger would be there!! LOL!!