My wife and I were talking about the coming eclipse and l shared with her l was crappie fishing Santee when we had another eclipse. We goggled the date was March 7, 1970.
A high school friend l grew up fishing with we would put his grandfather's 9.9 Johnson short shaft motor and tank in trunk of car and drive down to Potatoe creek or Goat Island and rent a boat for the day.
We had been going to Santee fishing with family members since we were kids and learned what when and where to fish in the spring months.
I remember on that eclipse day we were fishing out of Potatoe creek as we had to follow the white rags tied to bushes that had a short cut to a ridge drop off on the main body.
I don't remember the crappie limit back then, but we caught our cooler full on that day as we watched what we thought was birds going to roast as it go darker.
We used 9 foot fly rods with monofiliment line with or without a cork depending on what we were fishing.
We also used long cane poles to fish the standing timber back then.
I need to add those places to my bucket list as soon as l get through going to heart rehab. So much water so little time. Hope to go back one day.