LAKE TALQUIN OVERFISHING???
I want to bring up the possibility that our lake talquin crappie population is down due to overfishing. I live on the lake in the back end of hammock creek. I have fished here for approximately 20 years. The spawn hasn't come to our part of the lake yet. Overdue. Seems overdue this whole western half of the lake. Last year seemed to be a down year. Usually our creek quite full of boats, esp. way back in the shallows, by this time of year. Are other talquin regulars seeing a change?? I see more crappie fisherman on our lake year by year in large numbers. So many out of state anglers take home multiple limits of crappie!! I see literally thousands of cormorants and anhingas feeding on the lake. Vast increase in numbers in the last 20 years. And, pelicans. Never saw any 10-20 years ago. Now i count over a hundred. But, what i see mostly is the human fishing pressure has increased exponentially. Anyone else seeing these changes??