Be sure to renew your licenses that expired on 30 June.
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Originally posted by oyster crackerBe sure to renew your licenses that expired on 30 June.
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I always buy the 3 year.
RBF
Perhaps our feathered friend has seen one of the signs that are at most landings on most rivers that warn of certain consumption of fish that harbor mercury. These fish are in every body of water everywhere because of decades of coal burning.
That’s my take. If you want to avoid any pollution, where do you go? Alaska? I bet winds have carried pollution there too.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
Spec,
Thank you for your well written and very informative reply of 7/3/15. We actually tried to go up the CBH this past weekend, but the wife made me turn back just as soon as we got into the mouth of the river. I didn’t realize it was such a long river, but my curiosity is certainly perked up since I digested your post. I have a colleague who fishes “some bluffs” on the CBH and does OK with the reds. Trailering to the landing at Steel Bridge does not appeal to me, so I think I will enter from the Sound. I appreciate the information and look forward to your future posts, Mike.
Thanks for your thanks, Redfish4sure. I have at least an hour’s drive every time I go to the salt. I am happy to share the little I know on here, because I have learned a ton from this site. I don’t get on the water as much as I would like, so I can “armchair fish” on CF. I usually catch about the same amount of fish either way!
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
BTW, there is another landing I did not mention. It is Fields Point landing. I have never driven in there, so I can’t say how difficult it is to get a boat/trailer to the landing. It is just above the mouth of Old Chehaw River, and would offer excellent access to the lower CmB. I don’t think it has a finger dock, and I don’t know about the ramp, dropoff, etc.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
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Originally posted by specBTW, there is another landing I did not mention. It is Fields Point landing. I have never driven in there, so I can’t say how difficult it is to get a boat/trailer to the landing. It is just above the mouth of Old Chehaw River, and would offer excellent access to the lower CmB. I don’t think it has a finger dock, and I don’t know about the ramp, dropoff, etc.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
If I go to Fields point is is for Shrimping. A long drive down a dusty dirt road and then a very remote landing. Good landing but no dock. Not a friendly landing for getting in or out of a boat you don’t want a little scuffing done to. It would be a beautiful camping spot if the State still allowed it.
Fred, that’s kinda what I figured from looking at Google Earth.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
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Originally posted by specFred, that’s kinda what I figured from looking at Google Earth.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
I’ve only done the daytime bait shrimping once, but several of my friends go pretty regular during the season around that area. Water is usually really murky and they seem to do good. They also have the retired benefit of being able to go during the day or pretty much when they feel like it. One day! Should have done the full 20 years in the service! hindsight is 20/20
Son and I did go last weekend, stopped at the mouth of Cuckolds creek. Had an awsome start with several catfish, then it took a turn down with a couple of gars and rays. Never caught so many rays that far up. Then… A two hour trip back to steel bridge towing a broke down boat back. Worked perfect got to the dock at slack tide and loaded just before the downpour.
I’ve caught baitshrimp in CmB from Steel Bridge on down, but I have never seriously targeted eating size shrimp there. Makes sense, though, as lower CmB gets muddy after rains, and shrimp don’t hang out in clear water in the daytime.
Some locals pronounce Cuckolds creek as “Kerkels creek”. The mouth of Cuckolds used to be my dad’s favorite catfish drop. He would sit there on anchor for hours. I rode up to the landing at the bridge way up Cuckolds a couple of years ago. The left branch has great scenery, lots of gators sunning on the banks, and zillions of fiddler crabs!
Towing someone in, especially with bad weather coming, will be repaid with blessings to you down the road!
I think I still have some Cuckolds pics on my phone. I need practice on this picture downloading thing. Let me see if I can get them on here:
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
Question: Does anyone know the official reason the state has blocked off the Rice Patties in and just below Sugar Hill Creek? Were folks getting lost up in there?
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
quote:I believe the landing is called Cuckold landing, but the creek is called Kirkland's creek. My dad's hunt club is very close to there.
Originally posted by specI’ve caught baitshrimp in CmB from Steel Bridge on down, but I have never seriously targeted eating size shrimp there. Makes sense, though, as lower CmB gets muddy after rains, and shrimp don’t hang out in clear water in the daytime.
Some locals pronounce Cuckolds creek as “Kerkels creek”. The mouth of Cuckolds used to be my dad’s favorite catfish drop. He would sit there on anchor for hours. I rode up to the landing at the bridge way up Cuckolds a couple of years ago. The left branch has great scenery, lots of gators sunning on the banks, and zillions of fiddler crabs!
Towing someone in, especially with bad weather coming, will be repaid with blessings to you down the road!
I think I still have some Cuckolds pics on my phone. I need practice on this picture downloading thing. Let me see if I can get them on here:
spec
Thanks Skinneej. That seems to be the most mispronounced place in the world.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
The landing is Cuckhold’s Landing on Cuckhold’s Creek. The colloquial mis-pronunciation has always been “Kirkle’s” or Kerkel’s" Creek since I was a teenager…and that’s a dang long, long time ago. I used to go out of Cuckhold’s Landing, out of Cuckhold’s Creek into the Combahee (Cumbee) by what was then Myrtle Grove Plantation owned by the Igleheart’s (of General Mills fame). I remember catching spottails, stripers and largemouth from the same rice field drains on the same Rebel or Rapala. The plantation was managed back in the 60’s by C.M. Dantzler, a friend. We also used to fish the rice field trunks in April when C.M. dropped the water and all the fish were in the ditches. Couldn’t reel a white or yellow Shyster spinner more than 3 feet without a trout or a crappie in the same ditch. Great memories.
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Originally posted by wildlifescThe landing is Cuckhold’s Landing on Cuckhold’s Creek. The colloquial mis-pronunciation has always been “Kirkle’s” or Kerkel’s" Creek since I was a teenager…and that’s a dang long, long time ago. I used to go out of Cuckhold’s Landing, out of Cuckhold’s Creek into the Combahee (Cumbee) by what was then Myrtle Grove Plantation owned by the Igleheart’s (of General Mills fame). I remember catching spottails, stripers and largemouth from the same rice field drains on the same Rebel or Rapala. The plantation was managed back in the 60’s by C.M. Dantzler, a friend. We also used to fish the rice field trunks in April when C.M. dropped the water and all the fish were in the ditches. Couldn’t reel a white or yellow Shyster spinner more than 3 feet without a trout or a crappie in the same ditch. Great memories.
The above is 200 proof or 100%! I still have some friends that think it’s Kerkel’s Creek and other call it Kirkland’s Creek. sheered a lot of pins in that creek and the Combahee with dad. Sure glad boat’s don’t use em anymore!
My big time in that area was the Bluff Plantation. My Uncle used to manage it. Still have some plants from the Forest Gump movie sets filmed there.
Wildlife, do you or Fred know why all the major entrances to the rice patties between Bluff and Sugar Hill landing have been blocked? Somebody spent a fortune doing this. These “barriers” are visible on the latest 5/15/14 imagery date on Google Earth if you zoom in closer than 1,000 ft. They are most obvious in the breaks off Sugar Hill Creek.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker
Just guessing, but maybe they are growing rice? Rice growing is making a big comeback in SC. They use floodgates to control the water levels in the fields. Again, just guessing.
Capt. Larry Teuton
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When Ralph and I fished up at the public landing in Yemassee we noticed that. I didn’t think it was legal to block a public waterway. We were scratching our heads too. I was thinking it was some grandfathered law where someone was allowed to block their private property off or something…
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Seems like I remember that some landowners have a “Kings Grant” that has been handed down through the generations that gives special land, and maybe water, rights. I don’t know if this is the case, or maybe DNR got tired of searching for lost fishermen up in there, or what.
spec
1980 Skandia 21 w/ '93 JohnRude 150 gas drinker