Santee Stringer Archives - Page 19 of 20

May 1, 2026

A lower daily creel limit and larger minimum size limit should help the Santee Cooper lakes produce more trophy largemouth bass.

New bass regs are positive for lakes

New regulations governing bass fishing on the Santee Cooper lakes went into effect on March 31, 2010. […]

May is an excellent month to catch blue catfish at Santee Cooper. Drifting different kinds of cut bait is a tried-and-true tactic.

Take your pick; it will be biting

If there’s any month of the year when you can expect just about everything to be biting on the Santee Cooper lakes, it would be May. […]

Guide Barry Pritchard expects spring crappie fishing to be excellent this spring as lots of slabs reach keeper sizes.

Santee anglers should enjoy shallow bite this month

Terry Madewell

April is shallow-water fishing season on the Santee Cooper lakes. […]

Joe Avin of Santee Bass Matters fishes on Lake Marion, the site of a benefit tournament scheduled for April 24.

March is bustin’ out all over

Terry Madewell

If you’re looking for a month full of exciting fishing action, you need look no further than March at Santee Cooper. […]

Fishing this month can provide a good mixture of fine-eating species like crappie, catfish and white perch.

Striper action up, and perch perhaps

Terry Madewell

Generally, some the biggest fishing news on the Santee Cooper lakes in January is the cold-weather fishing for blue catfish — but that’s certainly not the only fishing game on the lakes. […]

Joe Avin of Santee Bass Matters believes eel grass may be a key to the rebuilding of the largemouth bass fishery on Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, but he’d love to see the return of hydrilla.

Will cooperation lead to better bass in lakes?

Terry Madewell

This past June, a concerned group of fishermen formed Santee Bass Matters, a grass-roots organization seeking answers to problems on the Santee Cooper lakes. […]

November is a great month to fish for striped bass on the Santee Cooper lakes, where new regulations are hopefully helping restore the fishery to past levels.

Striper fishing expected to be great this month

Terry Madewell

November brings a lot of reasons to be excited about fishing at Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie, but right at the top of the list is striper fishing. […]

Marlin Ormseth caught this Lake Moultrie blue catfish at sunset as he got ready for some night-time action that many fishermen overlook.

October ushers in fall’s best action

Terry Madewell

October is a special time in the Santee Cooper area, as most everything worth doing in the outdoors is wide open — there aren’t enough hours to get it all done. […]

Guide Inky Davis said that keeping up with the movement of baitfish will keep you on top of the best bass fishing on Santee Cooper this month.

Keep an eye on those baitfish. Bass will be in transition as shad, herring are moving

Terry Madewell

September is a month of change on Marion and Moultrie, the Santee Cooper lakes. To be consistently successful, fishing techniques must change to cope with the transition from summer to fall patterns as the month progresses. […]

A nice channel catfish can save or make a summertime fishing trip when bass, crappie, bream, stripers or trophy catfish are not cooperating.

‘Channel’ your fishing energy in the summer’s hottest month for best results

Terry Madewell

With hot weather bearing down, summertime fishing patterns are solidly locked into place on the Santee Cooper lakes, but if you have a good plan of action, that’s certainly not necessarily a bad thing. […]