Thread: Santee and Coastal Area Report

I know I haven't posted much here of late, but the fishing has been phenomenal. Fishing alone, and paired with Tommy we've been putting the smack down on the fish. A few weeks back we continued to catch crappie and shellcracker jigging Rooty Tooty 309's in the shallow grass on the lower end of Santee. We then moved to long lining a coastal area water way, the bite was unbelievable, and we were the only crappie fishermen to be seen. Several trips were made, with hundreds of fish caught. We even found a couple of deep bream beds while trolling and boated some beautiful bream/shellcrackers along with crappie, bass, and hundreds more white perch. I tried to use 12 rods, that wasn't going happen. You couldn't reel the fish in fast enough. I dropped down to 8, and it was all you could handle. I recently made a trip back to Santee to try some brush, it was on like nothing you've ever seen. I had to just leave the fish biting to prevent getting in trouble. I love me some late spring/early summer action. To me, this is the best fishing of the whole year, and most crappie fishermen have already hung up their poles. I didn't take pictures every time out, but here are a few.



One of the better fish on the day.



One nice mess of fish.



A 5 pound bass caught trolling.



A nice brush pile crappie.



A better mess of fish.

I'm with you Ink....LOVING this time of the year for crappie fishing. Here the water is still in the low 70's and the fishing is fantastic and there's hardly anybody still chasing 'em. Just took my old neighbor yesterday and we burnt 'em up. It's the first time I've invited him to go and we planned on only fishing a few hours so he was delighted that I asked him. He took all the fish with him after getting back home and it took half the afternoon for him to get them all cleaned. Ha!

Stay after 'em buddy...........cause I know I will!