Thread: Santee Questions

Originally Posted by granpa2

Wish I had checked back on this thread before I left yesterday morning. I fished most of TawCaw but would have tried Black bottom. Oh well, I'll check it out next time I'm there in 2 weeks.

We did manage a few fish in Tawcaw but not the size we were looking for. Ended up in Potatoe and fished from the back to the front and manage a couple of nice fish but a tough bite it was. Gotta get on Jacks before our tournament there on the 31rst but the lakes off limits to me now until Thursday before the tourney.

Marked a lot of fish in both areas yesterday but there must be a severe case of lockjaw going on right now on Santee. Didn't see many longliners out there and I would suppose, based on Ink's other posts, the nice uns are prolly on the way to the bank.

I fished Jack's on Sunday. All 5 crappie I caught were tight on structure. Started tightlining the back and to fish with both anchors deployed during afternoon wind in timber and got the three biggies in 13 fow. I hope water warms some and get back out again. Didn't catch many but seems I always catch a hog when I go with this trip yielding a 16" 2.3 lber. I also cant buzz around the lake with a pro-v and extra long shaft outboard.

Ah yea.....looks GREAT for longlining (never tried it though) and also USED to be FULL of gators and rough fish. The wind caught me in there one night shooting fish so I spent most of that night sloushing against the bank. It was just TOO ROUGH for me to even think about going back around that point into TawCaw. WAY too chancey for me....I woulda sunk in those waves. Had to have been 6'ers I thought. Needless to say that wasn't one of my most memorable trips to Santee...although I'll NEVER forget it either.

I have long lined it a few times, never found numbers of fish, but my PB 3.28 came from there.

Originally Posted by gabowman

Ah yea.....looks GREAT for longlining (never tried it though) and also USED to be FULL of gators and rough fish. The wind caught me in there one night shooting fish so I spent most of that night sloushing against the bank. It was just TOO ROUGH for me to even think about going back around that point into TawCaw. WAY too chancey for me....I woulda sunk in those waves. Had to have been 6'ers I thought. Needless to say that wasn't one of my most memorable trips to Santee...although I'll NEVER forget it either.

I was at Jack's on Friday and did pretty good, but didn't limit out tho. I wasn't in any hurry getting there and didn't start fishing until almost 11. Most were in the 13" to 15", male and female. All were in in 6 foot of water fishing over brush piles about 2 to 3 foot deep. I did the same about 2 weeks earlier. You just have to find were there are at.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. We'll see what the next couple of weeks bring weather wise but looks like another cold snap coming and maybe lots of rain between now and our classic on the 31st. Thanks to a certain CDC member for the PM.