Pics of Lake Marion

**Greenheadkiller** · 02-14-2019, 10:01 AM

A lake with no stumps, no grass, and huge blue catfish. Sounds like a yankee paradise.

**reeltight** · 02-14-2019, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Duck Tape

Maybe take my kids out to ski without fear of 200 boats full of drunks turning circles around them when they fall?

So let me ask you this...

Do you think once the stumps are removed, Marion wouldn't become Murray like? Yeah, the 200 boats aren't there now, but remove the stumps and they will be. Remove them and they will come.

Don't Mt. Pleasant; Lake Marion, Moultrie, Santee and the surrounding areas. Mt. Pleasant and the yankees had this idea of growth...everyone thought it was great. So they "improved" the quality of life. The removed the stumps and put in the infrastructure and grew and grew and grew. Hell, when I was at The Citadel there were nothing but trees out past the Town Center...all the way to Georgetown practically. The newest mayor ran on a platform of stopping/slowing down the growth. Somethings are just better left alone. Santee Lakes are one of those things. It's something we as outdoors-men and South Carolinian's can enjoy with limited interruptions from the tourist crowd. Stump deterrent is not a bad thing.

**reeltight** · 02-14-2019, 10:14 AM

Where do you think the ACE Basin would be if it were not protect. Those stumps help protect those lakes in the same way...Think about it.

**bbhntr48** · 02-14-2019, 10:15 AM

I live on Lake Moultrie and have spent many days on Lake Marion over last 50 years. Moultrie is way to busy with boat traffic in the summer as it is seen as safer than Marion. I understand the thought of making Marion easier to get around and I agree it is dangerous. If this is done, I wonder how long before the safety issue on Marion becomes even more boat traffic? Arent you trading one concern for another?

**Catdaddy** · 02-14-2019, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Duck Tape

The project is to remove them for navigation.

There is a trackhoe on a barge at the Blowout removing logs now. It was at the Dam last month. It would be nice if it was taken to Still Creek and opened up the creek from 2 ft back to 6-7 ft going in. That's only a 50 yard stretch that has silted in.

**reeltight** · 02-14-2019, 10:18 AM

We have four metropolises in SC. Myrtle Beach, Charleston area, Columbia/Lexington, Greenville/Spartanburg. The rest of the state is rural. If you want expensive property values move to one of these areas. Enjoy the rural areas for what they are.

**Catdaddy** · 02-14-2019, 10:19 AM

Oh and while you're at it...…..outlaw pontoon boats. Their 6 sets of waves have given more people back problems than Carter has liver pills.

They are the biggest nuisance on the lake.

**LabLuvR** · 02-14-2019, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by BOGSTER

Completely unrelated, there is an MOA protecting all living trees within the SCPSA property lines.

You missed my point.

**Palmetto Bug** · 02-14-2019, 10:23 AM

This isn't really about safety. It's about waterfront property values. More water that is navigable to idiot yankees means higher property values.

**SCswampCAT** · 02-14-2019, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by FEETDOWN

Awful, and don't call it that please. You're better than that

**Two Barrels** · 02-14-2019, 10:36 AM

I live 30 minutes from Keowee. From April to October it is Lake Murray North. If you want to see crazy, go there on a weekend during that time. I have not for many years. This is a lake completely void of standing timber but it has deep water. I grew up on that lake and it was a great place to ski. That all changed when Crescent Land (Duke Energy) sold off the land around it for development. Golf courses and seasonally vacant mansions are all over the lake, especially the once scenic north end. 25 and 30 foot Sea Rays along with pontoons are everywhere throwing giant wakes. Mix in the jet skis and it is reminiscent of the scene in Caddy Shack.

If you make Lake Marion a pleasure boaters paradise by removing standing timber, it will be the same. Our legislature should spend time and resources on more pressing issues.

Rubberhead* · 02-14-2019, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by willmac1211

https://scducks.com/forum/showthread...-Almost-Prayed

willmac1211,
Thanks for digging that up. It has what I think is my most poetic photo ever...the juxtaposition of the butterfly with outstretched wings against the dead and opened clams. Does the butterfly that starts life as a slimy, wormy thing that morphs into a beautiful winged creature mean that the slimy, wormy clams morph, in death, to beautiful winged creatures but we can only perceive their wings? Sorry, I need to quit before I make myself cry…

**willyworm** · 02-14-2019, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by BOGSTER

Navigation east of I-95. It boils down to cutting the dead forest down to 10ft below the water line, with the exception of documented nesting trees.

You talking live "nesting trees" or the dead ones?

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**Elcid_Fowler** · 02-14-2019, 11:05 AM

This is 100% about investment. If the people of SC don't see this you are blind. It's not safety, it's not convenience. It's nothing more than SC not being able to strategically navigate the public sector and only focused on giving away natural resources for "progressive growth". Keep on keeping on. Don't get me wrong, I love making money. I really do but geez people...get with the program and stop whoring your labor and cheap natural resources.

**Catdaddy** · 02-14-2019, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by Elcid_Fowler

This is 100% about investment. If the people of SC don't see this you are blind. It's not safety, it's not convenience. It's nothing more than SC not being able to strategically navigate the public sector and only focused on giving away natural resources for "progressive growth". Keep on keeping on. Don't get me wrong, I love making money. I really do but geez people...get with the program and stop whoring your labor and cheap natural resources.

Everything that can be developed already is. The whole lake doesn't need to be cleaned, but some more crossing channels would be nice.

Jacks Creek to the State Park Side, one a few miles below I95.. and one from Rocks Pond to Wyboo or Nelsons Cut would be nice.

**smitch320** · 02-14-2019, 11:23 AM

Someone make a bumper sticker.

**smitch320** · 02-14-2019, 11:25 AM

I enjoy the tranquility of the lake. It would be awfully silly to do such a thing.

**BOGSTER** · 02-14-2019, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Catdaddy

Everything that can be developed already is. The whole lake doesn't need to be cleaned, but some more crossing channels would be nice.

Jacks Creek to the State Park Side, one a few miles below I95.. and one from Rocks Pond to Wyboo or Nelsons Cut would be nice.

I’m not sure where folks think the booming development will take place.