Thread: Enroute to sc with boat

Originally Posted by cutbait

What part you moving to


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i will be stationed at shaw afb, hoping for a rental around camden, i will see what is available soon

Originally Posted by BigDawgg

Glad your finally heading our way. Be glad to meet you once your settled in. Keep us posted when your ready to fish and we'll see if we can set something up.

cant wait to get out, hoping to get the boat all legit asap and will definitely take you up on the offer. Tim

Originally Posted by Inkdabber

Safe travels, we welcome you to our little part of paradise of this great country.

thank you ink, hope there will be a seat available one of these days

Originally Posted by micorps

i will be stationed at shaw afb, hoping for a rental around camden, i will see what is available soon

If you rent in Sumter you are about 30 minutes from the Sparkleberry Swamp in the upper Santee Cooper lakes. Not a prettier place on earth or a better one to fish. Plus, it's pushing 100 degrees here most days and that part of the lake is flooded cypress swamp which equates to SHADE.
Camden is close to Lake Wateree but I'm partial to Santee.

Originally Posted by SeaRay

If you rent in Sumter you are about 30 minutes from the Sparkleberry Swamp in the upper Santee Cooper lakes. Not a prettier place on earth or a better one to fish. Plus, it's pushing 100 degrees here most days and that part of the lake is flooded cypress swamp which equates to SHADE.
Camden is close to Lake Wateree but I'm partial to Santee.

Thank you for the advice sea ray. Im finding nice places near sumter which means short drive to work and located between santee and wateree. I plan on renting a year and should know by then if i want to stay in sc and buy a place when i retire in 4 years

Wow! I LOVE seeing those pictures you posted of your Mn fishing. It's nice seeing all you folks in sweaters and coats especially with the 100* heat we're having here. Whew!

And Ray...I believe the heat has gotten to you brother!!

Originally Posted by SeaRay

Believe it or not we do have Muskie here, just not many. Had I not seen the picture with DNR verification I would not have believed it. I think it was caught in the Broad River, which also has a healthy population of Smallmouth Bass.

Ive fished here all my life and have yet to even SEE a muskie or smallie around here....much less actually catch one! More likely a gar and carp. Ha! he he he

Welcome back to the states and thanks for your service brother. Wow! Retiring in only 4 more years........at 38 years old! You certainly used your head right. Congrats. I hope you enjoy the southern hospitality here. We're all pretty much layed back and enjoy our hobbies here. I think you'll find that down south we only work to live (unlike alot of the Northerners that live to work).

Originally Posted by gabowman

Wow! I LOVE seeing those pictures you posted of your Mn fishing. It's nice seeing all you folks in sweaters and coats especially with the 100* heat we're having here. Whew!

And Ray...I believe the heat has gotten to you brother!!




Ive fished here all my life and have yet to even SEE a muskie or smallie around here....much less actually catch one! More likely a gar and carp. Ha! he he he

Oh yee of little faith:

Huge muskie surprises Broad River bass fisherman on kayak float - South Carolina Sportsman News Breaker, SC

Greer man lands trophy smallmouth bass on chilly Broad River

"Ive fished here all my life and have yet to even SEE a muskie or smallie around here....much less actually catch one!"

I too, can attest to the Musky catch in the Broad river. I also have heard, and have actually seen small mouth caught in the Broad, and Congaree rivers. A couple of brownies were caught just below my house on the Congaree earlier this year.