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 | Largemouth Bass: Good, slow worming with Carolina-rigged worms and casting crankbaits off points. |
| Trout: Good mostly night fishing with large minnows, herring or cut bait 30 to 50 feet deep. Fair trolling with Sutton spoons, broke-back Rebels and Rapalas and drifting with large minnows. |
| Smallmouth Bass: Fair, drifting large minnows along red clay and rocky points. |
| Crappie: Slow. Try small minnows. Catfish: Fair, using nightcrawlers or frozen herring at night on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try worms and crickets deep around brush. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting crankbaits, floating worms and spinnerbaits. Fish now bedding or ready to. |
| Spotted Bass: Good, casting Carolina-rigged lizards and jerk baits. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows around bridges and boat docks with brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers stink baits and cut bait on bottom. |
| Bream: Fair, using worms and crickets around rip-rap and bridge pilings. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good. casting topwater lures and jerkbaits lake-wide. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, free-lining live blueback herring lake-wide. |
| Crappie: Good, using small and medium minnows 4 feet deep over brush in 15 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring and chicken livers in shallow water up in creeks. |
| Bream: Slow. Try earthworms and crickets deep around brush. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Slow. Try casting slow-running crankbaits and spinnerbaits. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using bucktails and jigs just below dam. |
| Crappie: Fair, using minnows and jigs around brush piles. |
| Catfish: Slow. Try fishing cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try fishing deep with earthworms. |
Lake Thurmond:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic worms, Zara Spooks spinnerbaits into the banks. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, casting jigs, Glass Shad, Cleos and heavy Roostertails. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and mini-jigs in Little River and up the lake. |
| Catfish: Good, using worms and chicken livers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair. Try crickets and worms deep around brush. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using big crankbaits, spinnerbaits and pig in jigs fishing near the bottom. |
| Striped Bass: Good, below Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running. |
| White Bass: Good, casting small spinners and jigs. |
| Crappie: Good, using jigs and minnows 3-20 feet deep over brush. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try red worms near the bottom. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting crankbaits, plastic worms and spinnerbaits to bedding fish. |
| Striped Bass: Good, casting bucktails, flukes and spoons in the lake under the gulls and casting bucktails and spoons behind the dam when water is running. |
| White Perch: Good, fishing deep with Berry spoons and Panther Martins. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and mini jigs in 4 to 10 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair. Try crickets and worms fishing deep. |
Lake Wateree:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting spinnerbaits and crankbaits in shallow water in the bushes. Not bedding yet. |
| Striped bass: Good, using bucktails, grubs and live bait at Cedar Creek dam and around the mouth of major creeks. |
| White Bass: Good, using small live shad and jigs below Cedar Creek dam and in feeder creeks. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and curl tail grubs around piers and in shallows, also trolling and drifting with jigs. |
| Catfish: Good, using live minnows or worms in the creeks. |
| Bream: Fair, using crickets and earthworms warmer areas of coves. |
Lake Murray:
| Largemouth Bass: Good. Bass are bedding and hitting spinner baits in the shallows and shaky head artificial worms around brush and shallows. Striped Bass: Good catches freeling herring in 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. Cast jigs and minnows to the bank. |
| White Perch: Good, jigging Flex-it spoons down 15 to 30 feet and using small tuffies and medium minnows. |
| Catfish: Good. In the shallows use cut herring and nightcrawlers on bottom. |
| Bream: Good. Fish with redworms, small nightcrawlers and crickets in 3 to 6 feet of water. |
| Shellcrackers: Fair, using redworms and small nightcrawlers. Drop
baits around flooded grass edge, rocks, stumps and other structure at
depths of 4 to 15 feet. |
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: Fair, using plastic worms in shallows. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, trolling Stretch 25 lures. |
| Crappie: Fair, try minnows around fish attraction areas. |
| Catfish: Good, use cut bait and chicken livers 10-30 feet deep. |
| Bream: Fair. Try crickets around fish attraction areas. |
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
