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 | Largemouth Bass: Good, using spinnerbaits and plastic worms, beginning to come up towards the bank. |
| Trout: Good, trolling down to 55 feet of water with Sutton spoons and Doctor spoons. Night fishing for trout is good with live and cut bait. Day fishing is good drifting large minnows. |
| Crappie: Fair, using small minnows and jigs. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets and popping bugs. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using topwater and floating worms and shallow-running crankbaits. Bass are moving up towards the bank and being caught from the surface to 10 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait or nightcrawlers late in the evening or at night. |
| Crappie: Good, using small jigs or minnows. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using tube jigs and lizards in shallow water. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, moving up to the banks. Schooling fish are being caught free lining with live herring and over treetops. Beginning to bite at night. |
| Crappie: Excellent, using small minnows or jigs in less than 3 feet of water over brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, in creeks using cut bait. Bream: Slow. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using shallow-running crankbaits, worms and lizards in medium to deep water. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using bucktails, jigs and live bait below the dam. |
| Hybrid Bass: Fair, using live and cut herring and bucktails. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and jigs around brush piles and bridge piers. |
Lake Thurmond:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using artificial worms. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Shad Raps, large Roostertails, Berry Spoons and large mini-jigs. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and jigs near the bank. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers and Louisiana pinks. |
| Bream: Good, using worms, crickets and nightcrawlers from the banks. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using floating worms along the banks and topwater buzzbaits. |
| Striped and White Bass: Good, using bucktails or spoons behind the dam. |
| Crappie: Good, using jigs or minnows in 4 to 20 feet of water, fish are moving out deeper. |
| Bream: Excellent using crickets, worms. |
| Catfish: Fair, using cut bait. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using topwater worms. |
| White and Striped Bass: Good, jigging with Berry spoons. |
| Crappie: Fair, fish have returned to deeper water, 10 feet. Catfish: Good, on the bottom using cut bait or worms. |
| Bream: Excellent, using minnows or worms along banks, bream are on the bed. |
| White Perch: Fair, schooling fish are being caught jigging Berry spoons. |
Lake Wateree:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using artificial spinnerbaits and worms just after daybreak or in the early evenings near banks and around rocky points. |
| Striped and White Bass: Good, using large shiners, spoons, and tails. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers and cut bait. |
| Bream: Excellent, using worms and crickets. |
| Crappie: Fair, using minnows and jigs in deeper water. |
Lake Murray:
| Largemouth Bass: Good. Bass are bedding and hitting spinner baits in the shallows and shaky head artificial worms around brush and shallows using watermelon red color. |
| Striped Bass: Good catches freelining herring in mid- lake. When schooling use striper delights and pencil poppers. Use live freelining or cut bait on down rods. |
| Crappie: Fair. Use jigs, small tuffies trolling the creek runs, at 8 to 20 feet. Cast jigs and minnows to the bank. |
| White Perch: Good, jigging Flex-it spoons down 15 to 30 feet. |
| Catfish: Good. In the shallows use cut herring and nightcrawlers. |
| Bream: Good. Fish with redworms, crickets in 3 to 8 feet of water. |
| Shellcrackers: Good, using redworms and small nightcrawlers. Drop
baits around sandy shell beds around points and islands at 4 to 15 feet. |
Santee Cooper System
Lake Marion:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using artificial worms or spinnerbaits in shallow water, good catches in the early morning using topwater plugs. |
| Striped Bass: Poor, fish are moving upriver and some are being caught on cut bait and bucktails. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and jigs. |
| Catfish: Good, using fresh shad and cut herring. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets and worms, fish are now bedding. |
| White Perch: Good, around creek beds. |
Lake Moultrie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, around the shallows and drop-offs using plastic worms and crankbaits. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using live herring. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows in 2-6 feet of water in the coves, also catching fish on brushpiles. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring and live shiners. |
| Bream: Fair, using worms or crickets in 8-10 feet of 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
