Another Windy but Successful Weekend @ Santee

The winds of March continue to blow in mid April making for tough fishing conditions. But, as the saying goes "Where there's a will, there's a way" I know I can't catch'em sitting on the couch, so for three days starting on Thursday I hit the water with hopes high. The strong winds pretty much limited you to back water areas, and one technique, single pole jigging, but that's not a problem because that's my favorite way to fish. Like last week, grass, logs, trees, and shallow brush was targeted. The bites were slow, but when you got one, it was a good fish. Limit caches were made each day, with orange and chartreuse, and blue and chartreuse being the best colors. Water temps have dropped to 61, with clarity slightly stained to clear.

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Thursday's box

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Friday's box

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Saturday's box

Ink,
as always congrats on 3 days of quality fish !!! them are some nice fish for sure !!!

Love seeing the boxes of Santee crappie, nice catch!!

Way to gettem ink. Congrats on 3 days of quality fishing.
Thanks for sharing.

Nice catch of fish. Thanks for the report and cooler shots.:biggrin

Another fine weekend Tim. Congrats and thanks for sharing those pictures.:)

Good catch Tim. Fishing in this kind of wind is hard work. Glad to see it paying off for you.

On a side note, looking at Friday's box shot the fish lying on top won the daily prize in the Santee Cooper Big Fish Big Bucks tourney. Not close to the biggest fish I weighed in during the month long contest @ 1.80 lb. but on this particular windy day, she was good enough to win the 100.00 daily prize.

Way to go Ink! That's three great hauls in this wind we're having. Thanks for sharing. After this past week I took all my tightlining stuff out the boat. It's jig pole time from here on out!


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I love all crappie fishing techniques, but one pole jigging with a long stick remains my favorite, most consistant method.

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Way to go Ink! That's three great hauls in this wind we're having. Thanks for sharing. After this past week I took all my tightlining stuff out the boat. It's jig pole time from here on out!


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I guess I need to give that a try. My friends are catching them off of brush but I aint ready for that just yet.

Great catch INK. I was wondering if you would post up a picture of the next flier you catch on one of your reports. I was told that they were some in the ponds at the Sandhills wildlife refuge in McBee,but only fished there a few times many years ago.

Ask and you shall recieve. I've heard the striper are starting to bite on the trees, been so windy I haven't had much of chance to try'em. Did catch a couple Saturday before the winds got cranked up on high. Both were short at 25" and 22" inches. Need to be 26" on Santee if anyone was wondering.

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Great catch INK. I was wondering if you would post up a picture of the next flier you catch on one of your reports. I was told that they were some in the ponds at the Sandhills wildlife refuge in McBee,but only fished there a few times many years ago.

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Thanks INK. Those stripers are stretched out for miles,two weeks ago my friend caught 15 in wyboo and this past Saturday put in at 76/378 went up caught 7. In the river here they have spawned so I don't expect them to be there much longer