Lake Talquin/Lake Seminole

**fishwalton** · 10-02-2010, 06:37 PM

I'm new to the forum. Was looking for crappie and bream info up here in the Florida panhandle. Talquin and Seminole are both reported to be good crappie fishing. Sure would like to see some posts from folks who are familar with these lakes and any others in the panhandle. I'm further west and fish the Choctawhatchee River 90% of time.

I was at Talquin this week for the first time and did poorly. Friend and I hope to go again and do some charting. We did get a report that slabs are being caught from lighted docks at night.

**litewirehooker** · 10-03-2010, 05:48 AM

It's a little early for Talquin unless you fish at night or deep around structure with minnows. I usually start round the middle of October but it normally gets better into November. There should be plenty of posts coming from Talquin within a few weeks.

lightwirehooker

**Angler53** · 10-03-2010, 08:26 AM

I'm inside an hour from Seminole. My first and only trip was special, for sure. I parked in a circle with five other boats around these stumps. There was one man and his wife within fifty feet of me caught their limit of big slabs and none of any of the other boats landed a single fish. Then, while returning to the ramp I learned my lesson about getting outside the channel in Seminole with a $2000.00 insurance claim to fix my ranger boat.
Seminole and Ocheesee pond are very desirable to me but I'll hold off until I come up with something else to fish them in.

**fishwalton** · 10-03-2010, 08:54 AM

Have heard about all the stumps in Seminole and you need to learn the lake, etc. Talqin has some of the same issues in certain areas. Ocheesee pond has been on my list for years but never went over there. It' s not all that far from De Funiak Springs. Have talked to locals who are familiar with Ocheesee and they all advise to be careful as you can get lost real easy. Maybe a GPS would solve that problem.

I have a small 14 ft jon boat with 20hp which is just fine for small water and river fishing, but you can get into real difficulty on a big pond if the wind comes up. I hit snaps now and then but no damage so far except an occasional shear pin broke and maybe a new prop every few years. The boat won't go fast enough to cause much damage, at least so far that is.

My boat was bought new in 1970 and motor in 1973. They still serve me well for 40 year old equipment.

**duckkiller** · 10-17-2010, 07:39 AM

Talquin is a great place, I always loved fishing it late Nov - Feb

**JSC** · 10-17-2010, 08:36 AM

You can still fish Seminole OK in a smaller boat, but you have to put in at landings near where you want to fish. On FL side that would be up and down the River Road and there are several public landings. The best Crappie Fishing I know of in Seminole is in the 4' Ditch (also know as Saunders Slough) area before the Island and narrow run .. From the Fl side it is a run across open water and in the spring I have seen it really bad when you get those winds.
In Talquin there are also several landings that you can put in at from the river down to the dam.
The main thing I know about Ochesse is that there are some of the biggest Bluegills in the country in that lake (my son fishes it a couple of times a year looking for the big gill) ... Really the Crappie fishing in Black Creek from mid winter until the spring is hard to beat and there are some big ones .. again you really gotta learn it .... and you mentioned that you had fished the main river .. the lakes from midwinter to spring can be really good .... a over looked area is in Big Sister have caught some good ones .. Another real good Crappie Hole is Depot Creek off of Lake Wimico (you get to it East of Pt St Joe turning north at the tower off of 98) .... There are many more including Alaqua Creek (this is a real sleeper .. go up from Highway 20) ... Hope this helps a little ...
Have you tried drifting deep stuff at Lake Cassidy ?

JSC

**SpeckChaser** · 10-18-2010, 08:38 AM

JSC---you have a PM

**fishwalton** · 10-23-2010, 09:29 PM

Thanks JSC for your input. Excellent info. Since my post I have improved my boat situation a little bit. It's still small, 14 ft, but a foot wider than my old boat and a nice 25hp Yamaha. I'm going to enjoy this boat for it's much more stable and safer. Now I have to decide what to do with my old boat which has become a family member over the past 40 years. I'm the original owner and still use it frequently, or did. I'm not as steady walking around in a boat as I was a few years ago. The years of advanced wisdom are starting to be felt!!!

I;m headed to Texas next week for a full month of relaxing and fishing. Taking the new boat and will be fishing a chain of lakes along the Guadalupe River at New Braunfels.

Anyway, when I get back most likely I will be visiting the river and since you mentioned them, The Three Sisters (the big one mostly} and Alaqua. It's been decades since I fished the Sisters, but keep hearing good reports from there. Alaqua - I have never done well there but know there are some big bream not far from the landing. Have caught a few on fly popper. I want to get back into a little speckled trout fishing during winter at the mouth of Mitchell River, Alaqua, and other rivers into the bay.

Have never fished Ochesse but know about the huge bream over there. People have told me it's a hard place to learn, but I think any new place is hard to learn. It does take time and determination. When I hit Big Sister it will be like a new learning experience since it has been so long. I used to camp and fish there as a teen ager.

Haven/t tried Cassidy since I was a teen-ager. However, a couple of year ago a friend of mine was out there bass fishing. He was across the lake and at dusk dark decided to head for the landing and troll. He said it was hard to see but he could hear bass popping the top of the water. He started trolling slowly with a top water plug and got a bite. Fish were popping all arund him way out from shore He stopped trolling and started casting and caught 15 bass one after the other, then they quit.

You mentioned drifting. I plan to install several rod holders on my new boat. Cassidy would be a perfect place to drift open water with several crappie jig poles going at the same time.

When I get back home I'll be in touch and maybe we can exchange more info here and get other folks to join in.

Thanks again,

J. B.

Originally Posted by JSC

You can still fish Seminole OK in a smaller boat, but you have to put in at landings near where you want to fish. On FL side that would be up and down the River Road and there are several public landings. The best Crappie Fishing I know of in Seminole is in the 4' Ditch (also know as Saunders Slough) area before the Island and narrow run .. From the Fl side it is a run across open water and in the spring I have seen it really bad when you get those winds.
In Talquin there are also several landings that you can put in at from the river down to the dam.
The main thing I know about Ochesse is that there are some of the biggest Bluegills in the country in that lake (my son fishes it a couple of times a year looking for the big gill) ... Really the Crappie fishing in Black Creek from mid winter until the spring is hard to beat and there are some big ones .. again you really gotta learn it .... and you mentioned that you had fished the main river .. the lakes from midwinter to spring can be really good .... a over looked area is in Big Sister have caught some good ones .. Another real good Crappie Hole is Depot Creek off of Lake Wimico (you get to it East of Pt St Joe turning north at the tower off of 98) .... There are many more including Alaqua Creek (this is a real sleeper .. go up from Highway 20) ... Hope this helps a little ...
Have you tried drifting deep stuff at Lake Cassidy ?

JSC

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