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Where is this at? place looks awesome.
Santee is a great place to fish. Best of luck.
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Water color looks pretty muddy, Ray. head over to Jack's.
good luck Ray hope you have a great time
remember your old tied down buddy when you
get to dragging um in :biggrin
Have fun Ray and let us know how you are doing. I may come down one day and bream fish.
Could it be near sparkleberry?
Good luck! Better wear a sweater with all that shade, might get cool in this messed up weather we're having! Got wet yesterday at work and felt like it was December 1964. :Rofl
Good luck Ray,be safe and send us up some shellcracker ,crappie and brim pics.
Go get'em Swamp Man ! Enjoy your time in the swamp and take some pics so we can too !!!
Great day today. Shellcrackers not bedding but getting ready.Attachment 265720 We are at Stumphole Fishing "Ray's Hole". Been a hotspot for 25 years.
Good looking catch Ray,
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Looks like you are having fun
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That looks like a good catch Ray. Thanks for sharing
That's putting the smack down on them. Thanks Ray for the report and picture!:highfive
Looks like a great time ray, are you fishing this weekend.
haven't caught Bream in more decades than I care to think about. Nice haul!!
Always good to see some fish on the table, better if it's my table and we are ready to eat. :-)
Thanks for the report, stay safe and happy hunting
looking good Ray looks like a good start off for a week of fishing
Way to go Ray!! Looks like y'all had some fun.
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We wrapped up our fishing Wednesday evening with a fish fry and I came home today(Thursday). Here are some random pictures which will give you an idea of the topography and probably prompt the question, "How did you ever find that place?" We have been prowling the Stumphole area for over 50 years and this is one of may "holes" we have had success with and named so we could relay to each other where we were fishing. The cabin belongs to Henry and almost anyone at Stumphole knows Henry. He, William, Robert, Rick and I worked together at Ma Bell and have known each other since 1970 and we have been coming to Santee every May since then.
(Micorps...we are not fishing this weekend. We came home today)
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Robert and William fishing in the log jam
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One of many nice Shellcrackers we caught.
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First time any of us have seen a Canada Goose take over an Osprey nest and lay their eggs. She let us know we were too close every time we went by too.
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This is Henry(in bow) and his cousin Ken(stern). This was Ken's first trip to the swamp.
This gives you and idea of the mess we had to deal with. All these torrential rains we've had in the past few years have washed a bunch of logs into the swamp. They are constantly changing too. We had to find new paths each day as the moved around and blocked our path.
Teaser alert: I am waiting on a picture from my friend Henry so I can share with you one of those "Just when you think you've seen it all" moments.
Thanks for reading and the kind comments.
Ray
Nice pics. I still work at Ma Bell up in Charlotte.
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glad you had a good time in the swamp Ray I know you love the place and its
always good to get to go to one of favorite spots
hope to see you soon bud.
ps your pics didn't show up
oops !! maybe its my computer didn't show them
didn't see lloakley replytill after I made mine
well they did show up nice pics
thanks for sharing
OK here is the now I've seen everything part. Henry has a rather eccentric, but likeable neighbor down the street who stops by at all hours for a visit, usually after dark and most times on horseback. Henry had promised him some fish but he insisted that they not be cleaned, he would do that he said. He stopped by while we were cleaning a batch and Henry gave him a mess of fish straight out of the water. We were putting the carcasses in a 5 gallon bucket which we normally carried out into the lake and discarded. He said he wanted the scraps to feed to Wilbur, his 300+ pound pig. He has a good bit of land across from his house and he has a barn with horses and now, I learn, a 300 lb pig named Wilbur.
Anyway Henry promised to run the bucket of fish carcasses down to him when we finished cleaning he fish which he later did.
We had a fish fry that night and had just finished a great meal of fried fish, Santee Potatoes, slaw and apple cobbler with ice cream when in pops the neighbor with a platter covered in foil and announced his wife had prepared a delicacy especially for Henry. When he uncovered the platter, it was whole battered and fried fish skeletons. Henry is seldom at a loss for words but this was one occasion. He insisted we try them so Henry took a tiny bite off the tail fin and told him it was good, but we were all full from just eating a meal and we would save for later.
If anyone is interested in a platter of fried fish carcasses send me a PM and we will mail them to you.
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Those are all yours Ray! I have seen others cook fish that way but for myself I'll pass.
Ray, I'm sure that if they were served at my house back when I was young they would have been nibbled on. We had 13 people at the table most times at supper when I was growing up. We wouldn't have thought of it as a joke! My cousins lived with us until we all got big enough to leave on our own. We had a lot of things put on the table in front of us that were questionable but we ate it anyway and it didn't kill us. Could have been possum :dono :yikes
Ray we used to do that all the time. We would cut the heads off and fry the skeleton. I still do it if I leave a bunch of meat on the bones when I filet crappie.
Ray , Looks like ya'll had a great time.But as far as the skinny fish go....Well .....I pass...:cheers2
think ill pass on that one too Ray "Sweetie" got a good laugh out of though
said she would pass too so looks like you and Henry get um all :ThumbsUp
I always liked fried tail fin, but that's a bit over the edge for me
No thanks, I couldn't deprive you of such fine fare.
As the lady said in the old Wendy's commercial 'WHERE'S THE BEEF'? lol