This should be an excellent year for crappie numbers and size on Lake Thurmond, according to Dan Rankin, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, which conducts annual trap-net surveys for the lake’s crappie. […]
Guide William Sasser can almost always find a place to catch crappie in Clarks Hill Lake. He estimates that he has about 200 brush piles in the lake. […]
The Savannah River lakes, including Thurmond, are unique in that there are differences in the size limits for crappie depending on whether you bring your fish out on the South Carolina side or the Georgia side. […]
Guiding on Clarks Hill Lake is a business for William Sasser, but crappie fishing takes him back to his childhood. Although most of the business of his guide service and bait shop centers on fishing for stripers and hybrids, it was his ability to catch crappie on the sprawling Savannah River reservoir that got him into guiding. […]
A campaign begun five years ago by the Coastal Conservation Association in South Carolina is making strides in improving water quality, increasing oyster production and enhancing fisheries along the coast. […]
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has announced two training sessions in January and February for anyone interested in participating in a hunting season that will be held to try to diminish the impact of double-crested cormorants on forage fish and other natural resources in the Santee Cooper area. […]
With a strong hunting heritage, South Carolina has a long history as a firearms-friendly state, and that is proving to be very attractive to firearms-related companies, with a second announcing a big move to the Palmetto State last week. […]
“Sometimes things are just meant to happen.” That’s how Eddie Wilson of Newberry described the Oct. 12 hunt when his 13-year-old nephew shot a potential record-book buck while sitting on his lap – at 600 yards! […]
The impact of an increasing population of double-crested cormorants on the forage base in the Santee Cooper lakes has become so severe that the S.C. Department of Natural Resources has announced a plan for a nearly 2-month hunting season on the birds after the close of duck season. […]
Six of the seven black bears held in captivity by permit in South Carolina have been turned over to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and relocated to a 720-acre wildlife sanctuary in Colorado. […]
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