September 17th is our All Species Tournament, so start getting ready for this annual club event! Get your boats ready and your crew or buddies lined up for a fun day on the water. There will be a sign up sheet again at the September meeting. The rules and regulations for this event will be an-nounced again at the monthly meeting. Re-member all club dues must be paid up to win any in house club tourna-ment awards. Unless someone makes a sug-gestion the rules and fish categories will stay the same as last year. Some members in the past have had very nice pay days from this club event. Some helpful information From EXEC board mem-ber Rayburn Poston: Oxygen level in our local

FROM THE PRESIDENTS COMPUTER

GRAND STRAND SALTWATER ANGLERS ASSOCIATION

SEPTEMBER 2016

THE HOOK SPONSORS

Lakewood Camp-ing Resort

Don Perry 447-7311 Bonefish Grill 8703 N 17 Bypass Andy Smith 215-4374 Quality Pools and

Quality Landscap-ing

Bill Seay 234-2665 2nd Avenue Pier Teak Collins Bass Pro Shops Glenns Bay Dental Dr. Hal Capps Jr.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE :

CALENDAR AND AN-

NOUNCEMENTTS

2

RECIPE OF THE MONTH 2

FISHING REPORT 3

CLUB PICS & SUCH 3

LEADERBOARD 4

EDITORS NOTE/ GAMES 5

Business of the Month: Lakewood Campground is the place to be now that all the tourists have gone! If you’d

like that stay-cation without the hassle, this is the location!

Consistently voted one of the most family friendly

camping resorts, Lakewood is also a club and Flounder

Tournament Sponsor, as well as a sponsor for the

SALTT league.

Check out all that Lakewood has to offer!

waters are low and floun-der are in the breakers so if you could get to a pier and fish straight down, it is on like Donkey Kong. Pier 14, 2nd Avenue Pier, Springmaid, Surfside and Garden City have been pretty hot………. Best time is around the tide but still good most of the day to be honest Best bait choices are live mud minnows, but live or dead mullet is better. The summer action around here can be summed up in two words “mixed bag”! This is an excellent time go fishing because we have so many options. On the inlet and inshore waters we will be targeting Red-fish, Flounder, Trout and small sharks using a combination of lures and live bait tactics. Given the right condi-tions you can get up on the shallow short grass

flats in search of tailing redfish…if you like to “hunt for fish” this is the ultimate experience! On top of that there is some great action off of the beach and on the near shore wrecks and arti-ficial reefs created by our club and others for species such as Cobia, Spanish Mackerel, King Mackerel, Red Snapper and Sea Bass. What more can be said, late summer and fall fishing has something for every-one!

Your pres, Chick

INGREDIENTS

1(18 ounce) pack-

age yellow cake

mix

2⁄3cup vegetable oil

4eggs 8 oz sour cream

1cup packed brown sugar

1⁄3cup chopped pecans

2 teaspoons

ground cinnamon

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tablespoon milk

1teaspoon vanilla

RECIPE OF THE MONTH : HONEYBUN CAKE

D ID YOU KNOW :

DRAGONFLIES LAY

THEIR EGGS

UNDERWATER ON

REEDS .

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Club Officers

President–

Chick McDaniels

651-2076

Vice President–

Kenny Moore

446-5777

Treasurer–

Anne Seay

241-5709

Secretary–

Jen Hodges

241-5713

Past President

Dave Williams–357-9590

Members at Large

Ed Skowysz-650-7553

Bill Cash-237-9987

Rayburn Poston-902-4274

Ed Librick 215-595-3432

John Moure 668-4640

Editor

Jen Hodges– 241-5713

jhodges001@horrycounty

schools.net

Good and Welfare

Barb Pierson– 357-6530

Darla Williams–3579570

September

8th– Club Meeting/ Low-

country Boil night/

Speaker/ mens kp

17th– All Species Tourna-

ment, MI Boat Ramp

MONTHLY PLANNER November

10th– Club Meet-

ing/ Election meet-

ing/ mens kp

12th– Trash Fish

Tourney

October

9th– NIP Outing

13th– Club Meet-

ing/ Speaker/ wom-

ens kp

16th– Club Picnic

Lowcountry Boil Club Dinner this

month!!!

New Inlet Princess

GROUP OUTING

Sunday October 9th Full Day Trip

Directions: 1. Add cake mix, oil, eggs, and sour cream to a

large mixing bowl and mix well.

2. Spread half of the batter into a greased 13x9 inch baking pan.

3. In a smaller bowl, add the brown sugar, pecans, and cinnamon; stir to mix.

4. Sprinkle mixture evenly over the batter.

5. Spread the remaining batter over the pecan mix-ture.

6. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes or until golden brown.

7. In a bowl, stir the powdered sugar, milk, and va-

nilla until it is thin enough to spread.

8. Take a toothpick and prick the surface of the

warm cake several times.

9. Spread the sugar glaze over the cake.

Let cool for 1 hour.

Quote of the Month:

Thank God He made me this way; hunting,

fishing, loving every day."

If you would like to volun-

teer, or would like more

info about volunteering, to

work with a committee,

please contact Chick or

Jen.

If any information has

changed or you would like

to know more about what

you can do in the club to

get more involved –

please contact Jen Seay

at 843.241.5713 or

through email at

Report taken from local

guides, Sun News, fint-

alk.com and word of mouth

Estuary Look for: Red drum, flounder, spotted seatrout, black drum, sheepshead, blue-fish, tautog

Capt. Mike McDonald of Gul-R-Boy Guide Service and Capt. Lin Fore of Low Country Expeditions

headed to North Inlet Tuesday and caught 15 trout on plastic grubs, live shrimp and cut shrimp. A

few sharks, including an aggressive blacktip, picked off a few trout while they were reeled in.

McDonald noted a water temperature drop to 81 degrees on Tuesday, down from the mid-80s. Capt.

Patrick Kelly of Captain Smiley Fishing Charters in Little River enjoyed a very good flounder and

trout bite earlier in the week, but catches slowed a bit on Thursday. Kelly caught trout on live shrimp

or DOAs on a popping cork and flounder and red drum on live finger mullet. “There are finger mul-

let everywhere,” said Kelly.

“If you put anything shrimpy out there, it’s going to get bit.” Capt. Jeff Maples of Reel Salty Char-

ters stayed in Murrells Inlet to catch black drum, flounder, red drum and croaker on Thursday.

Maples’ crew caught four keeper flounder and a 16-inch red. Jessica Perry of Perry’s Bait and Tackle

reports reds are showing up at the Murrells Inlet jetties, with flounder and black drum the best bet

inside the creeks.

Inshore Look For: Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, whiting, weakfish, flounder, blue-fish, pompano, red drum, black drum, spadefish, sheepshead, black sea bass

It’s been another flounder jubilee on the piers and from the surf on the south end of the Grand

Strand over the last week to 10 days. Low levels of dissolved oxygen and an algal bloom have oc-

curred in the water within at least a few hundred yards of the beach and flounder have congregated in

the surf zone, searching for oxygen. The phenomenon has occurred and flounder have been caught

on piers from 14th Ave. Pier and south, but dissolved oxygen levels are returned closer to normal

and catches have curtailed as of Thursday.

The most flounder were caught on the Pier at Garden City, Surfside Pier and Springmaid Pier. The

phenomenon has occurred three times in the last 12 years along the Grand Strand. When the flounder

slowed down, the Spanish mackerel picked up, as jiggers have used straw rigs to catch Spanish in

decent numbers this week, although in most instances the Spanish have been right around the 12-inch

minimum size limit. Also look for whiting, croaker, bluefish, weakfish and pompano off the piers.

Capt. Jeff Maples of Reel Salty Charters was live-chumming finger mullet on Tuesday at Paradise

Reef, in preparation for Saturday’s Spanish Mackerel Derby out of the Mullet Hut in Murrells Inlet.

Maples was surprised when a couple of skinny king mackerel, weighing 19 and 18 pounds, respec-

tively, took the mullet. Jessica Perry of Perry’s Bait and Tackle reports a peanut dolphin was caught

11 miles offshore. The ocean water temperature was 84.9 degrees Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Spring-

maid Pier.

Offshore Look For: Wahoo, blackfin tuna, dolphin, grouper, vermilion snapper, black sea bass, amberjack, vermilion snapper, triggerfish, porgy.

Trolling action has been good for wahoo, as is typically the case in August. The number of blue mar-

lin encounters has been surprisingly high, plus sailfish are around as usual in late summer.

Trolling can also produce king mackerel, blackfin tuna, dolphin, barracuda and bonito. Bottom fish-

ing is very good for grouper, especially scamp, amberjack, vermilion snapper, black sea bass, porgy

and triggerfish.

Red snapper are off-limits in the South Atlantic region and must be released.

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While I definitely already miss summer, there are such great things to look forward to in the fall that I really can’t be that upset. First– the fishing really gets good. I love being out on the water while it’s still warm, but with less traffic and better bites. Second– its hunting season too! Woohoo! Third– so many super fun club events happen in the fall! We have a lot lined up so make sure to check the calendar and pencil GSSAA time in! We have our annual outing on the New Inlet Princess coming up on Sunday October 9– register today and make sure you get a spot! Sun-day tours are less crowded as they max out seats at 40, so I would get on this post haste! We also have our club picnic coming up in October, can I get an amen for some Dickey’s BBQ again this year? Oh brisket I like thee al-most as much as I like thine fresh caught fish… I digress. As long as I’m on

MONTHLY FYI Seagulls are the only bird that can digest saltwater.

Black Drum Kevin Seay 24 in/ 6.87 lbs 6/18/16 Red Drum Kenny Moore 27 in/ 7 lb 11/21/15 Speckled Trout Kenny Moore 4.74 lb 12/5/15 Flounder Ed Librick 20 in/ 3.06 lb 7/2/16 Black Sea Bass Vic Woods 16 1/2 in/ 2 lb 12/14/15 Pigfish Jerry Condenzio 10 1/2 in./ 1/31/16 Weakfish Jerry Condenzio 20 in/ 2.09 lb 4/25/16 Bluefish Richard Teeters 18 in 4/30/16 Pompano Kevin Seay 12 in/ 1.01 lb 6/18/16 Croaker Jen Hodges 10 in/ .61 lb 6/18/16 King Mackerel Vic Woods 30 in/ 8lb 8 oz 6/4/16 Spanish Mackerel Vic Woods 22 in/ 2lb 4oz 7/16/16 Gag Grouper Roland Boucher 32 in/ 20lb 7/18/16 Scamp Grouper Roland Boucher 30 in/ 17 lbs 7/18/16

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The topic of foooooood, let’s not for-get this month’s Club sponsored LOWCOUNTRY BOIL NIGHT!!! Shrimp, sausage, corn, taters to your hearts content, plus some special guest stars from the dessert home-front! Definitely a meeting not to miss! This month we also have our All Species Tourney, which I highly suggest everyone participate in as it is a great time usually filled with some pretty good fish. Don’t let the end of summer be a buzzkill, lets all just focus on all the fun we have yet to have this year! Continue to keep our club members that are struggling with various health issues in your prayers and thoughts. I look forward to seeing you all Thursday!