3 Days at Talquin!

Hey Everyone,

My Dad, my son, and I just spent 2 1/2 days at Talquin and absolutely fell in love with it! After seeing all of the posts on the internet about Talquin we were fired up and ready to go. We put in at the lodge and fished the waters just out from it trolling jigs that we got from Rusty. The first afternoon, we only got 8, but we were excited about the bite to come the next morning and boy did it pay off. We caught 25 the next morning with the biggest being about 15 inches and weighing in the 2# range (boy these river fish sure are big!). We finished the trip with about 55 total fish and never had a greater time. We plan to make this a yearly expedition with plans to try Talquin in the summer as well.

Hope everyone continues to enjoy Talqin! What a beautiful fishery. Here are some the pictures of the great time we had.

Flslabhunter

Enjoy!

Looks great Shane !
I'm sure you guys enjoyed it. I fished Talquin years ago with my granddad when he had a house and boat dock/house down there (long gone).
WTG ! !

Thanks, Danny. It was a great time indeed! Wish we were still there this morning. Thought about going to Orange this morning but the wind is going to be up. Guess I will go this weekend and see if I can catch as many as the Pros that will be there for Crappie USA tournament.

Shane

Good Fishing.........The secret is out.

lightwirehooker

I know the pictures from your previous post are what made us decide to come. However, I don't think Talquin is a secret to anyone. It is legendary in more than one state. I could tell that by all the GA boys and girls that were there this week (lol)!

Shane

Incredible bunch of black crappie! You'd better feed a family reunion with that batch.

They sure look better without any skin on them,YUMMMMYYYY.

It is a great place! I counted 36 boats out in front of Rusty's on saturday. A little crowded.:cool:

I'd say a lot crowded. Be interesting to see if the lake can stand the kind of pressure it's receiving this year. I've heard tales how much better talquin was 15 years ago than it is now....let this kind of pressure keep up and I'm betting it'll start showing up in the not too distant future....

Talked to a Game Management Person that was doing a study on the Crappie at Talquin........All fish over 10 inches have already reproduced at least one time.......that is good to know.

lightwirehooker

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Originally Posted by AUTiger

I'd say a lot crowded. Be interesting to see if the lake can stand the kind of pressure it's receiving this year. I've heard tales how much better talquin was 15 years ago than it is now....let this kind of pressure keep up and I'm betting it'll start showing up in the not too distant future....

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Good thought ... Thru the Years Talquin has had some "Draw Downs" and these draw downs start the lake thru a new cycle .. one year they planted a lot of "Edge Grass" and for a while there was a big change in the fishing ... How much pressure can the crappie fishing on Talquin Take ?? Who knows ... The Bass & Brim Fishing has been questioned before but it hangs right in there ... By the way the Blue Gill fishing is way above average, people around here are subject to doing a lot of Night Fly Fishing over there and they really do good with "Big Bream" ... The Ochlocknee (SP) River system has some great fishing ... That from below the dam to the Bay turns out some big fish.

JSC
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Originally Posted by blindhog

It is a great place! I counted 36 boats out in front of Rusty's on saturday. A little crowded.:cool:

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Was that before the fog lifted???lol...I counted 54 after the fog lifted around 9:30-10:00...I let em have it and found another place to fish...I followed LightWireHooker to Polk Creek:D

Me and rawhide made a pull about 3/4 of the way through the crowd and followed y'all up-river! I got one nice one there in the crowd though, and one right when we go to Williams.
Then we ran back to Belle Lake and it was downhill from there on.

I'd heard that about the crappie at Talquin already having spawned one time before they reach 10" but with the increase in pressure how many are never going to spawn a second time now that would have with "normal" fishing pressure???? It's bad when you are fishing out in the middle of the lake and you still have to leave because it's too crowded to enjoy it.....

With this pressure they need to up the limit size to 12". Oh boy.....slab heaven!:D

When the fog rose monday around 11:00 there were 14 boats on the flats. Neery a one were catching many fish and I did'nt hurt them any. I burned a lot of gas monday looking for fish and could'nt mark them anywhere. Some of the regulars been looking to no avail. All the pros are showing up for the turney his weekend maybe they hunt em down, ...... I have always felt a lake full of big stirppers do more damage to the specks than anything. They eat up crappie all year. We all need to have have a stirpper catch (most fish wins and we throw back nothing) They're easy to catch I know , they mire me up at least twice a trip................. Oh yeah If we could keep TNT from pulling those shirmp nets under his boat that might help the fishier.....

Ok we can put a ban on TnT and have huge striper round up there and Blackshear,now, how do catch those stinkin things?

stripers or rockfish,hybrids,that is what they are called here in east tenn,they eat crappie ,bass,and blue gill we used to catch them up to 30 lbs at night on live huge bluegill they should have never been introduced to our lakes my theory on fishing is they are just like women,if you ever figure them out you will be a millionare

TNT....you need to tell the truth.....every time I saw you.....you were headed to Polk Creek????

lightwirehooker