Lake Talquin Weekend

Me and my lady drove 8 hours to some warmer temps over the weekend. After last year’s February trip to Talquin, we were looking forward to getting back down for some big crappie. This time the numbers weren’t there but the quality certainly was! We had 4 2lb fish in two days of fishing. All the fish we found were suspended 15-20’ over 25-30’ of water. I kept seeing large schools of bait with fish around in the river channel. Mostly stacked around the bottom. I wanted to think they were crappie, but I don’t think they were. Here are a few pics of some of the nicer ones.
Water temp -62-64 degrees, VERY windy!
Long lined 1/16 jigs with monkey milk BG and minnows. Some rods had 1/16 split shot for depth
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Kept finding these big schools of fish in channel, but could not get them to bite. Not sure If crappie or not.


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Some nice slabs and great pictures too , by the way where is Lake Talquin ?


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Nice fish! Really surprised that they are still that deep with water that warm!

Awesome catch worth the trip


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Some nice slabs and great pictures too , by the way where is Lake Talquin ?


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Talquin is in N Florida, just W of Tallahassee. Very good crappie lake , deep and clear for a florida lake. Lots of standing timber as well. Not a lot of grass either.

Nice fish, congrats

Thanks for the information on the lake


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Very nice pictures and some awesome crappie there. Contrats! Your graph is showing a lot of bait. We fish over deep water and target bait balls like that all the time. Don't think I've ever seen a graph actually showing fish that we could attribute to a specific species like crappie. Same with fishing for smallmouths. We don't look for fish.....just bait.

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Very nice pictures and some awesome crappie there. Contrats! Your graph is showing a lot of bait. We fish over deep water and target bait balls like that all the time. Don't think I've ever seen a graph actually showing fish that we could attribute to a specific species like crappie. Same with fishing for smallmouths. We don't look for fish.....just bait.

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I agree there is a lot of bait in the pic. However, the livescope showed many bigger individual fish swimming in and out of the schools of bait. Even saw them chasing the bait and breaking up the schools. I just didnt catch any of them to confirm crappie or small stripers. Definitely not just bait though.

Nice fish, congrats>thanks for sharing.
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great post and picks thanks for sharing

beautiful fish ,congrats yawl

The last 3 yrs I've fished all around Florida in the winter and Talquin is by far my favorite crappie lake, I guess iys the standing timber that makes for a great fishing lake

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Great looking fish!

Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing your day and the pics with the rest of us.

Great looking fish. Awesome coloration on them

Kenny, looked like a great time. Sure do miss the fishing trips. Still remember the day we caught that 17" crappie.