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Lake Moultrie catfishing is off the charts in February. Learn the best fishing strategies in the latest issue of South Carolina Sportsman. February issue of South Carolina Sportsman now available  - Lake Moultrie is the smaller of the two reservoirs that make up the sprawling Santee Cooper system, but at 60,000 acres, it’s still a big puddle of water.
Reds are schooling in the mouths of creeks this month around Georgetown, making them perfect targets for flyfishing and sight-fishing. Redfish schooling around Georgetown  - The shallow waters around Georgetown are clear and cool, and sight fishing for schooling winter redfish on light tackle is how fishing guide Capt. Steve Roff likes to fish for them this time of year. Roff says the reds are bunching in schools, and "it is like deer hunting, stalking and paying attention to an outline or a tail movement."
Liz Richburg might be only 14 years old, but she put this 140-class 10-point on the ground with two rounds of buckshot. 14-year-old kills 140-class Newbury County buck  - Rabbit hunters count on their beagles to run bunnies in a big circle, with their quarry eventually returning to the area from which it was originally flushed. When Pelion’s Liz Richburg killed a beautiful 10-point buck on the last day of the season (Jan. 1), it was sort of the same deal. The beagles were replaced by relatives driving the deer, and the 140-class buck she killed returned to the spot it was first observed – 10 weeks later.
Cowpens' Jordan Abernathy earned the final monthly win in the 2011 South Carolina Sportsman Bag-a-Buck Contest. Abernathy takes final Bag-a-Buck session  - Jordan Abernathy of Cowpens told his father that all he wanted for Christmas was to find a big Cherokee County buck he shot the afternoon of Dec. 21. Abernathy hit the 12-point buck twice after stumbling on him walking through a pine thicket to his deer stand during a break in a day-long rain. After he shot the buck, the rain started again, wiping out the blood trail and forcing him to come back later with a dog.

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Chilled Reds on the Menu
The Hilton Head area offers excellent winter action on redfish in creeks and marshes.
The author shows off a nice redfish that fell for a scented soft-plastic bait the week after Christmas 2010 in Hilton Head’s Broad Creek.The crunch of footsteps on a heavy frost at Shelter Cove Marina was something you don’t expect to hear on Hilton Head Island, but it was slippery enough for fishermen who moves slowly and carefully loading their gear into Capt. Steve Ranney’s bay boat.

The Lowcountry had already seen snow one afternoon, so a little ice the week after Christmas 2010 wasn’t a total surprise.

The plan was to sample a few of the vintage winter redfish in Broad Creek and around Hilton Head. The outing had nothing to do with wine, although a bottle left outside would have been thoroughly chilled. The temperature was lower than expected, but that didn’t cool off the anglers’ enthusiasm; they knew the reds would be hungry and feed sometime during them morning. When they did, they would be there.

Approaching their first spot, a shallow point and rip-rapped wall, Ranney gave instructions to his crew.

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'Kent'  This report contains photos  
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''Black Feet Down''  This report contains photos  
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Yesterday at 8:26 pm | 44 Views | 0 Comments
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Ghost Buck  This report contains photos  
January 25 at 8:28 am | 173 Views | 1 Comments
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