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 | Largemouth Bass: Good, from 5 to 35 feet deep using spinnerbaits, crankbaits and plastic worms. |
| Trout: Good, from surface to 50 feet deep trolling with Sutton spoons, Doctor spoons or Bad Creek bait or drifting with minnows. Night fishing from surface to 40 feet deep is producing some catches using minnows, shad or cut herring. |
| Crappie: Slow, try small minnows or red worms around brush piles. |
| Catfish: Fair, try cut bait or worms. |
| Bream: Poor, try using red worms around the banks. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, from surface to 30 feet deep using crankbaits and jigging spoons. |
| Crappie: Fair, from 10 to 15 feet deep using small minnows or jigs. |
| Catfish: Slow. Try using nightcrawlers and cut bait. |
| Bream: Slow. Try red worms and crickets. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good. Fair, using deep-running crankbaits or pig and jigs from 20 to 30 feet deep. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Slow. Try live lining blue-back herring. |
| Crappie: Good, using jigs and medium minnows from 3 to 4 feet deep or over brush from 12 to 14 feet deep. |
| Catfish: Fair, using cut herring drifting 20 feet deep in creek channels. |
| Bream: Slow. Try using red worms from the surface to 15 feet deep. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using crankbaits and Carolina rigged plastic worms. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using cut bait and bucktails. |
| Crappie: Slow, around the banks using minnows and jigs. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait. |
| Bream: Slow. Try using jigs and minnows around brush piles. |
Lake Thurmond:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using spinnerbaits, Shad Raps and little Cleos. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Roadrunners, large jigs, trailing with silver spoons or trolling with Berry spoons. |
| Crappie: Good, using minijigs, Wobbly Eyes or doll flies. |
| Catfish: Fair, using worms and cut bait. |
| Bream: Fair, using live worms. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using spinnerbaits and large plugs. |
| Striped Bass: Good, behind Wylie Dam using bucktails, topwater plugs and spoons. |
| White Bass: Good, using Roostertails and Panther Martins. |
| Crappie: Good, using jigs and minnows. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers and cut bait. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using crankbaits and plastic worms off points and in the back end of coves. |
| White bass, Striped Bass and White Perch: Good, in schools using small spinners or crankbaits. |
| Crappie: Good, using minijigs and minnows around brush. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and worms. |
| Bream: Good, using red worms. |
Lake Wateree:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting spinnerbaits in shallow water in the backs of creeks in bushes. |
| Striped bass: Good, using bucktails and live bait at Cedar Creek dam. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and jigs. Try trolling with jigs. |
| Catfish: Good, using live minnows or worms in deeper areas of creeks. Fish moving to shallower water. |
| Bream: Fair, using crickets and earthworms warmer area back of creeks and around docks. Fish not bedding yet. |
Lake Murray:
| Largemouth Bass: Good. Bass are hitting spinner baits in the shallows and shaky head artificial worms around brush and shallows. Fish are about to bed. |
| Striped Bass: Good. Fish river and creek runs. In schools, cast double rigged buck tails, Ice Flies and striper delights. |
| Crappie: Good, using jigs, small tuffies and red minnows trolling the creek runs, at 8 to 20 feet, and in the upper part of the lake around the confluence of the little and big Saluda rivers and up to Camp Barstow. Crappie moving into shallows and active around structure in as little as 2 feet of water. |
| White Perch: Good, jigging Flex-it spoons down 15 to 30 feet and using small tuffies. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring and nightcrawlers on bottom. |
| Bream: Good. Fish with redworms, small nightcrawlers and crickets in 5 to 12 feet of water. |
| Shellcrackers: Fair, using redworms and small nightcrawlers in 4 to 15 feet around a flooded grass edge, rocks, stumps and other structure. |
Santee Cooper System
Lake Marion:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using topwater lures. |
| Striped Bass: Fair. Try casting 3/4 and 1/2-ounce bucktails to fish schooling in creeks. |
| White Perch: Slow. Try jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. |
| Crappie: Good, using medium to small minnows around piers and brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using live shad or shiners near the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try using crickets around the banks. |
Lake Moultrie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using plastic worms and crankbaits in shallow water in coves 2 to 4 feet deep. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, trolling Stretch 25 lures or fishing live herring if available. |
| Crappie: Poor, starting to spawn, so the bite is slowing down. |
| Catfish: Good, caught in 2 to 4 foot of water at night anchored using cut bait. |
| Bream and Shellcracker: Poor, worms in 6 feet of water. |
| White perch: Good, caught off of worms during the daytime in shallow water. |
REPORTERS: The S.C. Department of Natural Resources appreciates the
cooperation of fishing trend reporters for South Carolina's major lakes:
Jocassee - Jocassee Outdoor
Center; Keowee - Fishing Hole; Hartwell - Lake Hartwell Fishing and
Marine; Russell - Tony's Bait and
Tackle; Thurmond - Bladon's; Wylie - Catawba Tackle; Greenwood -
Sportsman's Friend; Wateree -
Wateree Marina; Murray -
Dooley's Sport Shop, Lake World; Marion -
Randolph's Landing; and
Moultrie - Atkins Boat Landing - Mr. David Sweat.
For South Carolina freshwater fish regulations:
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/pdf/freshfishing.pdf
