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    Default First time in Santee Cooper

    Never fished in Santee. Looking for some places to fish and places not to go. Thanks in advance .

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    That covers something like 50 miles of lakes not including rivers and swamp. You will need to be a bit more specific on what you are after...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ctodd View Post
    Never fished in Santee. Looking for some places to fish and places not to go. Thanks in advance .
    Start off at packs since the wind gets up this time of year and avoid going to carolina king,owner guy is a grade A asshole.

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    What are you fishing for?

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    The rockfish are heading up river, fresh cut herring, fished on the bottom. worked a couple days ago.
    Last edited by fracas714; 03-19-2023 at 06:30 PM.

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    Mainly fishing for bream or crappie. I’d like to try and fish some creeks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coot_Commander View Post
    avoid going to carolina king,owner guy is a grade A asshole.
    You’re damn right he is, a first class piece of shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whackumstackum View Post
    You’re damn right he is, a first class piece of shit.
    Inky Davis must be that guy’s brother


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    Go to Pack's Landing, buy bait ask where the rockfish or shellcracker are and they ought to steer you right.
    Listen to your elders. Not because they are always right but because they have more experiences of being wrong.

    "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Sir Winston Churchill

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunwannabe View Post
    Go to Pack's Landing, buy bait ask where the rockfish or shellcracker are and they ought to steer you right.
    Pro tip...

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunwannabe View Post
    Go to Pack's Landing, buy bait ask where the rockfish or shellcracker are and they ought to steer you right.
    Thanks

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    What they said about Packs. Most important piece of info I can't believe hasn't been said yet. You can run wide open in the river with normal risks of running wide open in the river....anywhere else, if you are running wide open and you don't know exactly where it's safe to do so, you are playing Russian roulette. Take it slow and enjoy the beauty.
    “I can’t wait ‘till I’m grown” is the stupidest @!#* I ever said!

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    Jacks creek landing is back open fyi

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    Rockfish bite was damn near non-existent this past weekend.

    Lotta folks came in with 1-3 fish Thursday-Sat.
    Andy and Stevie both agreed on the cold snap shut down.

    We caught some flat heads.

    Shellcracker are moving shallow in the woods. They’ll hang in 5-8ft until the shallows reach and stay at 70deg, then they’ll move into a foot of water to spawn.

    Fish freshly blown down trees with minnows for crappie.
    Fish IN the tree, not 3ft out from the limbs.

    It’s a great time to be out there.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Make sure you have insurance on that boat.

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