If you’re ever out on a Lowcountry beach you might encounter pluff mud — an ultra-sticky substance that both sinks and stinks. While pluff mud is an integral part of the Grand Strand’s ecosystem, you ...

As I watched two young men digging for clams near the banks of the Ashley River, one wearing knee-high boots quickly discovered waist-high waders would have provided much better protection. The pluff ...

Getting stuck in the pluff mud is common. Calling the fire department to be rescued from it is not. The Murrells Inlet-Garden City Fire Department pulled a fisherman stranded on a personal pontoon ...

As you might imagine, January and February are the two hardest months to write a fishing column. The water is cold, the fish (and myself) are hunkered down, and other than schooling redfish and ...

The last several columns have focused on the importance of sediment, or mud, to life in the river. We have discussed the relationship between the velocity or speed of the river and the size of the ...

On Monday, Ruth McCully said she became a literal “old stick in the mud.” She was traversing Hilton Head Island’s north end beach, Fish Haul, just before sunrise, trying to find the perfect shot of ...

If his customers can spare a few minutes Kelly Clayton likes to tell the story behind the name of his company, Pluff Mud Apparel. When settlers first came to the Charleston area they had to plant ...