2----3lbs crappie

To start with I didn't catch them,:banghead :banghead :banghead, but one team in the SCCA santee tourney did this past saturday. The big fish of the tourney was a 3.29lbs, the other was a 3.19 I believe, saw both man I'd love to boated one them to fella's got two.


With them 2 monsters that team Cannon and Cannon placed 3rd I think. Took over 22lbs (10 fish to win). Most of the bigger sacks came off the lower lake, most of us struggled to get 10 fish but all teams caught good size, some just couldn't put ten together.


Longlining was the way all but one team was fishing and they only fish one pole jigging. Results Scca web page in a couple days with pictures.

Wow! I'd love to boat a 3lber or two!

Boated several 3 lb's back in 60 and 70 's out of Santee but haven't seen one in a long time. Got one swimming with my name on her and all I got to do is find her. Proablly be looking for a long time.

had some friends over there this pasted weekend they had one friday and one saturday they said the best weekend in there life :fishing

I was waiting to get a picture and here they are I missed the weights just a little they were 3.24 and 3.17 and the male weight 2.90 the 3.24 was big fish in our tourney. Santee has some hogs in it for sure:

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My old man went today, said he got blew off the lake. Only caught a few then called it a day after an hour............those are some nice fish up top. I just hope Santee stays like this for years to come

Those are very nice fish and Santee produces some very large crappie and catfish to boot. I just wish those lakes were not so far away. You guys have a great fishery over there and thanks for allowing me fish it about every other year.

Unlike other lakes, Santee's abundance of cover, and limited coves, creeks, and back water areas. Means many fish have adapted to spawning in the main lake. This makes it difficult for fisherman to gang up on them like they do on other lakes. The vast openness, makes it accessible to wind, which limits the amount of time good crappie trollers can hunt for them. With that said, Santee will remain a fine destination for outsized crappie for many years to come!

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Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun

My old man went today, said he got blew off the lake. Only caught a few then called it a day after an hour............those are some nice fish up top. I just hope Santee stays like this for years to come

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It ain't always been like this on the Santee lakes. But right now seem the lower lake has the edge, that's were these fish came from, I was shown a picture of a couple from @ tater creek but can say for sure when they were caught. We caught fish in every creek on the lake pre-fishing from popular, jack, polly, and even main lake but the biggest we even caught came from taw and tatar. Even with the size caught last saturday the numbers still aren't good and that more a tell than size you catch. The fish will come in to spawn and if all you're catching are bigger fish, then that to me show a little problem yes its fun to catch but were's the 3/4 to 1lb fish???????