I am camping at the park Easter weekend & have never fished this area or Santee much at all. I cannot bring the boat but will be bank fishing & also bringing the kayak. Any suggestions on areas (flats, shallow, ridges, deeper water, areas of submerged timber??). I do not have a Depthfinder on my kayak but I do have a online Navionics site I look at some to help with depths. What about the cove that runs behind the park, would that be any good? Since I am in a kayak I do not want to go too far away.
Any help would be great, thanks.
I’ve fished straight across from the landing to the left and also the creek between those places and caught bream in the Spring/early Summer. I would try the cove if in a Yak.
Haven’t been to the state park in a long time, but used to catfish from the main lake bank, after getting down the steep cliff. The river channel in pretty close to the bank there.
Poplar creek is the cove. Should be able to Bass and Bream fish from the Yak there.
Be careful, the place use to be full of snakes!
take a look online with the Navionics web app and you’ll see where there are some drop offs within casting distance from shore where the primitive and rv camping is. Good for catfish. The area just to the right of the main boat ramp and store is a good place sometimes to catch some nice shellcrackers, and so is the fishing pier. Good Luck and hope the wind eases up for you.
you can also fish Poplar Creek with your kayak, good crappie, shellcrackers, and largemouth, and Easter is a good time of year
Thanks guys, yeah I really hope this wind lets up by then too.
How did you do,We are planning on taking the RV and spending a week there.
A spoiled rotten BOYKIN SPANIEL lives with me
Got skunked. Wind was bad, rain Friday morning, & the nights got down in the low 40s. I talked to a lot of people there & looks like no one did any good.
I did speak to a local kayak fisherman who gave me some helpful info that might help you out. He said up until this past weekend the shell crackers had been doing good in the cove next to the park with red worms on a slip cork right above the bottom. Said crappie been pretty good in the same cove. He also mentioned good bite in the flooded trees across the water from the park but with the wind it was too bad to try going that far out in my yak.
Hope you do good & keep us informed.