Me and a buddy are camping at Bear Island 10/14 - 10/18. He puts in for the SCDNR draw to hunt Bear Island every year and included me in the draw. So this is a hunting/fishing trip. I havent hunt for deer since college (35 years)…so it will be good to get in the stand again.
I have to decided whether to hunt or fish in the AM or PM…lol…that is a good problem to have!
Anyway I thought I would post this to get some help on ramps and hazards to be aware of. Any information will be much appreciated!
Thanks @Rapchizzle ! How about non ethanol fuel? Looks like I have drive into Edisto to get it…45 min drive. Any gas stations near bear island wild life?
EF and Rap have you covered, if you put in next to their shrimp dock at the public landing, just know that the tide rips. Commercial crabbers use that ramp every day, otherwise chill and all those folks are really easy going too. The lane closer to the shrimp dock tends to be muddier at low, so I always use the upstream side where the floater is
Mr Billie Baldwin used to have a lineage of black labs that lived at the shrimp house/landing, one of them about 15 years ago would beg you to throw his favorite rock into the water at the ramp, he’d dive for it and find it by feel like it was a sinking tennis ball, cool dang dog
Good luck on your draw hunt, we look forward to the report!
You’ll probably see chanterelles in the ditch on the left before you get to Bear Island thanks to the rains we just had
PM me if you want a few fishing spots around there