Old sparkleberry swamp

[Knee Deep]

Here is a picture of my grandfather and Billy Goff back in the day.

[TheVisorGuy]

I still fish the cow pasture

[quack head 11]

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Here is a picture of my grandfather and Billy Goff back in the day.

Dude in the middle looks just like Mergie in his old pictures, and the name being exactly the same is kinda creepy.


Somebody been slipping off to the santee area back in the day

[Mergie Master]

Dude in the middle looks just like Mergie in his old pictures, and the name being exactly the same is kinda creepy.

I even wore the old boonie rat hat back then. But that ain't me. Or maybe it is and I just don't remember due to my advanced years.

[scandler]

*couldn't *wouldn't

Why edit ?

[Arrowman]

Because putting "n't" at the end makes the word mean the opposite.

[BOGSTER]

The barrels still hanging in mcguirts are quite a bit higher than 30ft and the ladders up to them are railroad spikes. The one at the fork is pushing at least 50ft up.
That had to be sporty on a breezy day.

[scandler]

Because putting "n't" at the end makes the word mean the opposite.

Thanks english major ! Most on this site wouldnt have seen it and neather did I

[LabLuvR]

That was probably Sawdust Pile landing. Sketchy place to leave a truck but I never had any problems. Ducks numbers made AR look like childs play.

When we had ducks in SC and before all the impoundments were planted and managed, the Mallards would leave the Refuge at Jacks Creek everyday at daylight and arrive in the Swamp about a half hour later. We usually had about 100-200 thousand big ducks on the refuge at any given time and most of those would show up at Otter Flats, Pine Island, Mill Creek, Snake Creek, Tavern Creek, etc. The timber hunting rivaled anything I've ever seen in Arkansas. In fact, before the 1990's there was not the mass exodus from Sumter, Richland, Orangeburg, and Clarendon Counties to Arkansas every year. Before the Black Duck limit was dropped from 5 to 1, it was relatively easy to kill a 5 Black limit. Of course all of this depended on the water levels, but I rarely remember Sparkleberry being dry. We had to go through a field, open and close a gate and put in at the "old" landing.
Professor

PS: In the 50's and 60's Pocalla Swamp in Sumter and Clarendon Counties was just as good (or better) than Sparkleberry!

[LabLuvR]

I ran into Billy a lot when hunting Parr, heck of a nice fella. I never did see him in Santee.

[willk]

This could be interesting, anyone remember Jim Rembert?

[Catdaddy]

This could be interesting, anyone remember Jim Rembert?

I remember the name from those days, but can't put a face on it.

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[bdunc]

Rembert was in Mississippi last I heard..

[dhall1693]

"Sunrise on the Santee", by Julius M. Reynolds

It talks a lot about Sparkleberry as well as other different areas around the state

One of yall let me hold a copy, I'll give it back I promise!

[DRDUCK]

only ticket I have ever gotten was from as we called him FAT LEO, 75 bucks back then was a lot of money. Heard he done retired but a hell of a warden.

[willk]

Rembert was in Mississippi last I heard..

He was. Me and some other guys hunted out there and in Ark. with him. He moved back to SC a few years ago but last time I saw him he said he was ready to go somewhere else. Crazy SOB but can be fun to hunt with.

[Strick9]

I am old enough to have caught the tail end of the good stuff in the Sparkle and it was good, actually it was great and it could certainly be better than Arkansas. This is one of the reasons I get so pissed at the present management. I often wonder how much money SC looses annually from its lack of ducks as hunters pour OOS. Not to even mention the lack of BASS tours etc.

Back then SC had way less tax / license / stamp monies yet somehow WAY more ducks ?? Priorities I reckon that and fat politicians. PMTFO!

[quackaholic22]

Just saw an old rotted out steel drum up in a tree when we were down there on the first split. Didn't see it until shooting time haha.

Some of those drums are still up in the trees...I can only imagine shooting ducks out of those. Not sure if I would agree with it being sportin' or not, but I think I'd enjoy it

[marsh chicken]

Just saw an old rotted out steel drum up in a tree when we were down there on the first split. Didn't see it until shooting time haha.

haha

[trkykilr]

He was. Me and some other guys hunted out there and in Ark. with him. He moved back to SC a few years ago but last time I saw him he said he was ready to go somewhere else. Crazy SOB but can be fun to hunt with.

I know all of his spots.