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7/30/2007 News Release
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 | Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic worms. Also try Little Cleos and spinnerbaits. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and chartreuse jigs around rip-rap and brush tops. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and nightcrawlers around bridges and rocky points. |
| Bream: Excellent, using crickets, popping bugs and dug worms around banks and brush. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using topwater lures like the Sammy 100’s, Zara Spooks, buzzbaits, floating worms and Carolina-rigged worms in green or red colors in 15 to 25 feet of water in the mouths of creeks and off rocky points. Also try fishing topwater lures in the early morning hours. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and jigs in 10 to 15 feet of water around brush piles and bridge pilings. Also night fishing around bridge pilings using lanterns. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers and cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair, using worms and crickets shallow brush piles and stumps. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using 5 to 6-inch lizards, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, topwater lures, and Trick worms fishing off points. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, try live herring with down-rods in deep water around the dam in 24 to 30 feet deep. |
| Crappie: Fair, using small minnows, grubs and small jigs. Fish are moving into deeper water. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring on the bottom in shallow coves. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets around brush piles. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting plastic worms and lizards along rocky points and deep humps Night fishing most productive. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, night fishing with bucktails, cut and live herring and jigs especially when water is running below dam. |
| White Bass: Fair, using bucktails, spinners and live bait below dam. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and jigs around brush piles and bridges. Also try fishing jigs along banks with cover. |
| Catfish: Good, fishing cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, fishing with red wigglers, nightcrawlers and crickets. |
Lake Thurmond:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic worms. Also try Little Cleos and spinnerbaits. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Cleos, Berry Spoons and KastMasters. Also try live and cut herring. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and chartreuse jigs around rip-rap and brush tops. |
| Catfish: Good, using worms and cut bait along rip-rap and banks. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets, worms and popping bugs. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic lizards, floating worms and topwater lures in the back of creeks. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Spoons and Bucktails. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and chartreuse jigs around rip-rap and brush tops. Crappie are moving into deeper water. Night fishing for crappie has been productive in the last week. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, fishing with crickets and worms from the bank. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting floating worms, topwater plugs and plastic worms in shallow water around docks and structure. Also try plastic worms off rocky points with a slow retrieve, bumping the bottom. Largemouth bass are being caught at night using bark colored plastic worms in 12 to 15 feet of water. |
| Stripers: Good, behind the dam using Bombers, Charlie plugs and bucktails. Schooling activity has been reported around Goat Island and in the dam area as well as all over the lake. |
| White Bass and White Perch: Good, fish are schooling together with stripers and largemouth. The most productive way to catch these fish is casting a popping cork , trailing it with 18 inches of leader with a medium size popping bug tied on to the leader. |
| Crappie: Good, using small to medium minnows and mini jigs over brush in 12 to 15 feet of water. Night fishing is the most productive time to catch crappie. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and worms on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets and worms along shore and docks and fishing from banks. |
Lake Wateree:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using buzzbaits, crankbaits, Carolina rigged worms and spinnerbaits. Fish have moved into deep water along drops around brush. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using live shad with down-rods in 15 to 25 feet of water. Stripers are suspended in 20 to 22 feet of water in the Clearwater Cove area. Also try Stillhouse Branch fishing 15 to 20 feet deep. White Bass: Slow. Try shad-like baits in river channel drops. |
| Crappie: Good, try Wow grubs and Slider worms using 1/8 ounce heads in neutral colors, casting and jigging along old river beds in 12 to 15 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, using worms, shad and cut bait in deeper drop-offs 10 to 15 feet deep. |
| Bream: Fair, a few bream are bedding now, catch them on crickets and worms and artificial bait that looks like mayflies. |
| Shellcrackers: Slow. Try crickets and worms. |
Lake Murray:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using topwater lures early in the morning and floating worms, jerkbaits and buzzbaits along the banks. Try fishing Texas rigged and Carolina rigged worms midday around stumps and rocky points. |
| Striped Bass: Good, try cut herring on the bottom and down-rods in 25 to 30 feet of water. |
| Crappie: Good, using jigs and small tuffies trolling in creek runs and fishing brush piles in 10 to 20 foot of water. White Perch: Fair, jigging small tuffies, worms or spoons 5 to 30 feet deep. |
| Catfish: Fair, using cut herring and nightcrawlers 5 to 15 feet deep. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets and worms next to docks. |
Santee Cooper System
Lake Marion:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using artificial worms, topwater lures, crankbaits and spinnerbaits fishing along the banks and point. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, using shad and live or cut herring. Free-lining live shiners has also been productive. |
| White Perch: Slow, Try jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. |
| Crappie: Good, using small and medium minnows around deep brush piles, bridge pilings and piers. Try fishing at night. |
| Catfish: Excellent, fishing with live herring and cut shad off the bottom in deep water. |
| Bream and Shellcrackers: Good, using crickets, redworms, wigglers and nightcrawlers in 1 to 10 feet of water. |
Lake Moultrie:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting, spinnerbaits, plastic worms and lizards along docks and structure. |
| Striped Bass: Good, fishing live herring 30 to 40 feet deep with down-rods. Some schooling activity reported. Night fishing the most productive. |
| Crappie: Slow. Try small to medium sized minnows around fish attraction areas. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut shad, herring, menhaden, live large shiners and nightcrawlers 40 to 50 feet deep. Night fishing the most productive. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets, green worm and redworms around public fish attractors. Fish are in 8 to 25 feet of water on beds. |
| Shellcrackers: Fair, try redworms and green worms along the banks and points. |
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
