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 ...

Multiple emergency crews, with the help of a police drone and a fan boat, rescued a dog who had escaped his family and got ...

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 ...

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 ...

The man in Beaufort who got stuck in pluff mud last week may think it sucks. And it does. He got sucked in up to his belly button by the Lowcountry ooze when he went into the marsh to get his dog. If ...

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 ...