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I Am Not a Catfisherman…..Yet

– By Two Dog Outdoors

This past week though, I was given the opportunity to fish with folks that have dedicated themselves to catching catfish predictably for twenty years.

Our guides, “Mouse” and “Boudreaux” Witherell, took two other outdoor writers (Pete Rogers and PJ Perea) and myself out on Lake Marion at sunrise for hours of consistent action on the lake.

Their company, Santee Cajun Guides, is a family run business. They fish Lake Marion or Moultrie for upwards of 240 days a year. Some days, that means multiple boats as each captain has their own spacious Pontoon boat.

 

A Unique 18 Hole Putting Experience Opening Soon

Santee Cooper Golf Resort is set to open the Palmetto Traverse, a 35,000 square foot green designed for wild fun, with putts as long as 260 feet possible and over some of the most varied terrain you will ever see in a putting surface. The design is based off the Himalayas putting course at St. Andrews, and designed by golf course architect and Donald Ross restoration specialist Kris Spence.

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Using a Mouse to Catch a Cat

(Editor’s Note: RheaReview.com outdoor editor Richard Simms recently returned from a 10-day road trip. Of course fishing was high on the agenda. This is the first of a series on fishing trips he experienced. Perhaps you might want to add them to your Bucket List as well.)

Article and Photos By Richard Simms
 

Another Site Done

Another Fishing Attractor Enhanced
Fish attractor, site #15, was enhanced on Wednesday, December 13. 90 concrete pipes and culverts weighing 94.75 tons were placed around the buoy marker. The site is located on Lake Moultrie. Here is a photo of the Santee Cooper barge loaded with the materials and heading for the site.

 

Habitat Enhancement Project

Fishing Attractor Site Enhancement
On December 11, 2017  another fish attractor site was enhanced. 195.15 tons of concrete pipes and culverts were deposited at site #22 near Harry’s Fish Camp in Berkeley county.These enhanced sites provide habitat and protection for thousands of fish around the Santee Cooper lakes system. Thank you Santee Cooper PSA for your help with this project.

 

Design Adaptability — Playing to Your Strengths

Story by Matt Bise
Up the Tailrace Canal in Moncks Corner is Santee Cooper’s Pinopolis lock and dam at the Jefferies Hydroelectric Station. The concrete and steel structure has held back the waters of Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie since the 1940s. Technology has come a long way since then but as you rise and fall through the Pinopolis Lock, you are reminded of some astonishing engineering, making the structure as strong, dependable and important as ever.
 

Destination Santee Cooper

You don’t often hear about outstanding bass fishing that gets overlooked, but that really can be the case with South Carolina’s Santee Cooper lakes – especially when you get outside of spring. Although these big lakes certainly get plenty of bass fishing use, national fishing acclaim gets split because of the nation’s original landlocked striped bass population, world-class trophy catfish opportunities and a legendary panfish fishery that even produced a former world record shellcracker.