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 | Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting crankbaits and Carolina-rigged green or red worms up the rivers. Topwater night fishing should produce around points and secondary points. |
| Trout: Good, fishing early morning and at night around intake towers using cut bait or minnows 45 to 80 feet deep. Also trolling early morning and during the day with Sutton and Doctor spoon. |
| Smallmouth Bass: Fair, casting brown hair jigs or smaller plastic worms or grubs on rocky points and rocky banks. |
| Crappie: Fair, using small minnows and jigs around brush. |
| Catfish: Fair, using nightcrawlers or cut bait on bottom, night is best. |
| Bream: Excellent, using crickets, popping bugs and dug worms around banks and brush. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, night fishing with buzzbaits and plastic worms in shallower water. |
| Crappie: Fair, using minnows under bridges at night. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers and cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair, using worms and crickets around shallow brush piles and stumps. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting top-water lures on humps and points and mid-day Carolina-rigging green pumpkin plastic worms. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, lower end of lake with live herring fishing jigs and jerk bait around 30-feet deep. Also casting to schools with Super Flukes. |
| Crappie: Fair, using small and medium minnows around bridge pilings, docks and brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring on the bottom in shallow coves. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets around brush piles. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Slow, casting Carolina-rigged worms, jerkbaits and lizards, better at night. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, try bucktails, cut bait and jigs below the dam. |
| White Bass: Slow. Try bucktails and spinners below the dam. |
| Crappie: Fair, try minnows and jigs around brush piles and bridge pilings. |
| 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 in necks early morning and around points late afternoon. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, fishing with large minnows and cut bait. Also, trolling with deep-running Rapalas and Rebels. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows around bridges, piers and brush tops. Some taken in about 40 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, using worms and cut bait along riprap and banks. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets, worms and popping bugs. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting Carolina-rigged worms along shallow points and banks. |
| Striped Bass: Good, below Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running. |
| White Bass: Fair, casting small spinners and jigs behind the dam. |
| Crappie: Fair, using jigs and minnows around piers about 15 feet deep. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting topwater worms, plugs and buzzbaits around docks, some at night on magnum dark worms in brush piles. |
| Striped Bass: Good, casting flukes and topwater plugs behind the dam. |
| White Perch: Good, fishing deep with Berry spoons and Panther Martins. |
| Crappie: Fair, using minnows and mini jigs over brush in 15 to 20 feet of water. |
| 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: Fair, casting worms and crankbaits on structure in deeper water. |
| Striped bass: Fair, schooling on the lower end of the lake, early and late in the day, using top water chuggers, live shad when the fish go deeper. |
| White Bass: Fair, using small shad-like lures, some schooling up and down lake. |
| Crappie: Slow. Try minnows and jigs over deep brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using worms, shad and cut bait in deeper drop-offs 10-15 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, fish going deeper due to hot weather. Cast topwater baits and Carolina-rigged Finesse worms early. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using live herring on down-rods 100 to 150 feet deep and trolling lead core rigs and umbrella rigs. Casting bucktails and pencil poppers to schooling fish early and late. |
| Crappie: Slow. Try jigs and minnows 10 feet and deeper around bridge pilings and in creek runs. |
| White Perch: Fair, jigging small tuffies, worms or spoons 5 to 30 feet deep. |
| Catfish: Fair, using cut live herring, cut bait and nightcrawlers 5 to 15 feet deep. |
Santee Cooper System
Lake Marion:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting topwater baits, lizards and worms early and late afternoon. |
| Striped Bass: Good. Try casting bucktails to schooling fish or fishing live small blueback herring or shiners 14 to 15 feet deep. |
| White Perch: Fair, jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. |
| Crappie: Slow. Try medium minnows around deep brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, fishing with cut bait off the bottom. |
| Bream and Shellcracker: Good, using crickets later in the day or early evening. |
Lake Moultrie:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using topwater lures and plastic worms in shallows near Hatchery Area early and late. Best at night. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using live herring and trolling Stretch 25s between Navy Point and Bonneau. Also jigging with Flex-it spoons 35 to 40 feet deep. |
| Crappie: Slow. Try minnows around fish attraction areas. |
| Bream: Fair, using red worms. |
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
