Comments on: Strom Thurmond Lake http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/mccormick-county/strom-thurmond-lake.html The purpose of the South Carolina Picture Project is to celebrate the beauty of the Palmetto State while preserving some of its vanishing landscapes. Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael Wayne Emory http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/mccormick-county/strom-thurmond-lake.html/comment-page-1/#comment-3948 Michael Wayne Emory Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:53:30 +0000 http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/uncategorized/strom-thurmond-lake.html#comment-3948 I’m a SC native born in a small cotton mill village in Spartanburg County. I have fished every lake in this state and nothing holds a candle to the fishing at Lake Thurmond. My family and I always launch our boat at Plum Branch and the scenic views with the cool, greenish water are beautiful. I can bring my little ones like my father did for me and his father did for him. We love to fish for Crappie — every trip we do well, but what we like most is being anchored out for 5-6 hours and not even seeing another boat. I’m glad that there are still places like Lake Thurmond in this state.

I have such great memories of the lake as a child — my daddy and my grandpa coming back from a fishing trip and all those Crappie in the cooler sittin’ in that little 14-foot aluminum boat. We would clean fish and smile, then my mama would fry ‘em up with fries, hushpuppies, and slaw. What great times they were and still are with a new generation! I hope in the future that Lake Thurmond will be a place with little development along the shoreline, so the next generation can enjoy the natural beauty that I have enjoyed.

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