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2011 Testone Catfish Charters - All Rights Reserved
Santee Cooper Country
South Carolina
World class charter fishing guide. Two lakes, two rivers, two canals, a vast swamp and 450 miles of shoreline, 171,000 acres of land covered by 756 billion gallons of water - Santee Cooper is awesome! Lakes Marion and Moultrie are famous as the home of the landlocked striped bass and the BIG blue catfish. Along with stripers and catfish are largemouth bass, crappie and bream. All of which offer an exciting challenge for anglers.
Charter fishing guide - Captain Brandon Testone - has over 20 yrs experience catching fish - His speciality is catching Catfish, whether its the blue, channel or flatheads. With Captain Brandon as your guide, we try to ensure a great time and rewarding trip is had by all.
Testone Catfish Charters has up to date equipment with a clean well maintained pontoon boat large enough to give plenty of fishing room for 6 fishermen.
* Kids under 12 are free with a paid adult.
* Private Charters are available -- Contact Us for details.
* 10% discount for active military
* 10% discount for senior citizen 65 and over
If you want the BIG FISH - Your fishing guide - Captain Brandon - will find them but YOU still have to reel em in!
Why choose Testone Catfish charters?
Fishing guide, Captain Brandon Testone, targets trophy size fish. That is after all what you came for right!
Some of the boats out here are old and weather worn - OUR boat is what you see online - New, Clean, Safe and equipped with a GPS, marine radio, sea anchors, and all coast guard required safety items. There is also an enclosure for bad or cold weather.
Leave the little ones behind, fish with me and lets hunt the monsters that Santee is known for! We don't always catch trophies and numbers will vary depending on the conditions, but I will gaurantee that I will try to put you on the biggest catfish you have ever caught...and have a blast in doing so!
Charter Fishing Guide - Captain Brandon Testone
World Class Charter Fishing Guide
Captain Brandon Testone
at the
Home of the Big Blue Cats!!
Santee Cooper Lakes
Fishing Report
Updated - 5/11/2012
Bream & Crappie: Very Good
Crappie - Crappie have completed the spawn and moved out to mid-depth brush piles. Fishing minnows and jigs over brush in 8-15 feet of water has been the best pattern. The bite has been similar in both lakes.
Bream (bluegills) - Limits of shellcracker are being caught in the upper lake fishing worms around shallow cover, and in the last couple of days the bluegill have moved off of the brush piles and headed towards the banks, too. In the upper lake bream can be found bedding around trees. In the lower lake bedding fish can be more difficult to locate, but putting an angler on the trolling motor and idling through the shallows is as good a way to find them as any. Crickets and worms are tough to beat.
Largemouth Bass: Good
Lake Marion is catching fish around the cypress trees in 2 ½ to 4 feet of water on soft plastics – primarily Senkos but also craw worms. Early in the morning you can catch some fish on frogs fished around lily pads. In the Cooper River there is a good topwater bite in the morning, and floating worms are also working well.
Catfish: Good
Catfishing remains fair in both lakes, especially during daytime. Both blue cats and channel cats are being caught in modest numbers most days drifting in 10 to 15 feet of water. Night fishing at anchor in shallow water is more productive than day time anchoring or drifting, and anchoring during day light hours has been more productive early up until around8:30. There are reports of a few good days catfishing along the rip rap on Lake Marion between Harry’s Fish Camp andRandolph’s Landing. Fishermen are using cut baits or shrimp suspended under floats 15 to 18 feet deep while anchoring or drifting parallel to the rip rap.
Striped Bass: Good
Three (3) fish per day and 26-inch minimum size. All stripers must be landed with the head and tailfin intact. -- Striper fishing in Lake Moultrie is good in terms of numbers of fish being boated during the daytime. Suspending live baits at 35 to 40 feet is productive as is trolling jigs, Stretch 25s, Rapalas or jigging spoons. There are very few keeper sized fish being caught, but it appears that striper are quite numerous in both lakes.
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The 5 primary trouts are the rainbow, brook, brown, cutthroat and lake trout. Brown trout are considered the most difficult to catch and brookies are the easiest.
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Santee Cooper Lakes Fishing
South Carolina
Phone 843-685-1832
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