Carolina Properties at Lake Marion

Lake Marion Area Real Estate Offerings   Santee, SC   (803) 378-6866

Charleston Area Properties

Counties of Charleston, Berkeley & Dorchester

SOUTH SHORE GOLF COURSES...

Santee National Golf Club 8636 Hwy 6, Santee, SC 29142 803.854.3531

Santee Cooper Country Club 630 Santee Drive, Santee, SC 803.854.2467

Lake Marion Golf Course, 9069 Hwy 6, Santee, SC 29142 803.854.2554

Holly Hill Country Club 9159 Old State Road, Holly Hill, SC 29059 803.496.3460

NORTH SHORE GOLF COURSES...

Foxboro 8377 Wash Davis Road Summerton, SC 29148 803.478.7000

Shannon Greens 1435 Davenport Drive Manning, SC 29102 803.435.8752

Wyboo 2565 Players Course Drive Manning, SC 29102 803.478.7899

Players Course at Wyboo 1560 Players Course Drive Manning, SC 29102 803.478.2500

From an article by Tommy Braswell in the Post and Courier, Sunday, July 29, 2018: SANTEE COOPER LAKES RATE HIGHLY - RANKED NO. 6 ON BASSMASTER MAGAZINE'S "BEST BASS LAKES".....

The Lowcountry is regularly recognized for being one of the top designations for tourists ad for golfers. But for outdoorsmen there's another good reason to visit the Santee Cooper lakes.

In its July/August issue, Bassmaster Magazine published its list of the country's "100 Best Bass Lakes" with lakes Marion & Moultrie earning a top-10 ranking, coming in at No. 6.

Bassmaster notes that when the Carolina Anglers Team Trail visited Santee Cooper in February, it took more than 6 pounds (5-fish limit) to win. In March a 33.31-pound limit was weighed and 20 pounds wasn't enough to crack the Top 10. And most recently, a May event required 26.32 to claim the top prize with a 9.10-pound winning big-fish honors.

From an article in the TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, June 20, 2014: Greeting motorists on the Interstate 95 bridge connecting Orangeburg and Clarendon counties across Lake Marion is an iconic billboard featuring a larger-than-life striped bass and a slogan of “not quite actual size.”

Although the billboard sits on a mere portion of the former Highway 301 bridge, which served as a causeway over Lake Marion from about 1947 to 1987, it seems to connect the past and present in ways that “swim” just below the surface.

In a blog entry, Kevin F. Langston of Santee Cooper noted, “When the Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project was completed in 1942, biologists believed the striped bass trapped by the impoundment of the Santee Cooper Lakes would simply die off because stripers are a fish that migrate from saltwater to freshwater rivers where they spawn and complete their lifecycle.”

Langston further states, “In fact, the striped bass thrived after they were trapped, and the Santee Cooper Lakes eventually would garner a national reputation for the stripers’ abundance and size.”

Anglers caught record-breaking sizes and quantities of striped bass from the Santee Cooper Lake System, much to the astonishment of biologists, Langston wrote: By 1972, the General Assembly designated the striped bass as South Carolina’s official state fish.

The billboard promotes Santee Cooper Country.

One of the older concrete bridges remains intact and stretches over Lake Marion.

And who knows, maybe one day a record-setting striped bass may bite the bait on a fisherman’s line … and the slogan will change to “pretty near actual size.”

Just be sure to check with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources for guidelines and restrictions about striped bass fishing before reeling in the big one.

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