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 | Largemouth Bass: Good, slow retrieves with plastic worms, casting Carolina-rigged worms, topwater lures, crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Good catches in the early morning. |
| Trout: Fair, trolling with Apex lures, Sutton spoons and Yozuri baits from 50 to 80 feet deep. |
| Smallmouth Bass: Fair, drifting large minnows and brown hair jigs around rocky points and rocky banks. |
| Crappie: Slow, Try small minnows and jigs around brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers or cut bait on bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using popping bugs and crickets around banks and brush. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using topwater lures like the Sammy 100’s, Zara Spooks, buzzbaits and floating worms early in the morning. Also try doodling and drop shotting Carolina-rigged worms in green or red colors jigging spoons in 25 to 40 feet of water in the mouths of creeks and off rocky points after the mid-morning. |
| Crappie: Fair, using small minnows and jigs in 10 to 15 feet of water around brush piles and bridge pilings. |
| Catfish: Good, using jumbo minnows, nightcrawlers and cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using redworms and crickets around brush piles and around stumps. Also, try fishing around bridge pilings. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using 5 to 6-inch lizards, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, topwater lures, and Trick worms fishing off points. Also try fishing in coves. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, try live herring with down-rods in deep water around the dam in 15 to 25 feet deep. Trolling activity has increase, try depths of 15 to 25 foot of water. Schooling activity on the lake has increased. |
| Crappie: Fair, using small minnows, grubs and small jigs. Fish are moving into deeper water around brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring, nightcrawlers, shrimp and chicken livers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair, using redworms and crickets around brush piles and cover. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, Try buzzbaits around bush in creeks and shallow running crankbaits. |
| Yellow Perch: Fair, fishing minnows deep. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, night fishing and early morning 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 around brush piles and bridges. Also try fishing jigs along banks with cover. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using red wigglers, pinks, crickets and nightcrawlers. |
Lake Thurmond:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic worms. Also try Little Cleos and spinnerbaits. Also try casting shallow running baits. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Cleos, Berry Spoons and KastMasters. Also try live and cut herring. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and jigs around brush tops. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and nightcrawlers fishing on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using Louisiana pink worms and jumbo redworms around the banks. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic lizards, floating worms and topwater lures in the back of creeks. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, using Spoons and Bucktails. |
| White Bass: Good, fish are schooling in the afternoon. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and chartreuse jigs around rip-rap and brush tops. |
| Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Shellcracker: Fair, using redworms and crickets on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using earthworms, redworms and crickets around the banks. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting floating worms, topwater plugs. Plastic worms in around docks and structure in 12 to 15 feet of water during the day. Some larger fish are being caught on crank baits off points. |
| 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 upper part of the lake. |
| White Bass and White Perch: Good, fish are schooling around Goat Island and around the dam area. |
| Crappie: Good, using small to medium minnows and mini jigs over brush in 12 to 15 feet of water. Drift fishing in 12 feet of water using minnows or jigs has also been productive during daylight hours. |
| Catfish: Excellent, using cut bait and blood bait off points in 8 to 15 feet of water on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair, using redworms along shore and docks. |
Lake Wateree:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using, crankbaits and Carolina rigged worms . Fish have moved into deep water along drops around brush. Look for water currents and schooling fish. |
| Striped Bass: Good, using live shad with down-rods in 15 to 25 feet of water. Stripers are starting to school early morning and late during the day. Good catches reported with top water plugs Stripers also suspended in 15 to 22 feet of water all over the lake. |
| Crappie: Good, try Wow grubs and Slider worms using 1/8 ounce heads in neutral colors, casting and jigging along old river beds in 11 to 13 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, using live shad, small pieces of shrimp and cut bait close to bottom in 10 to 20 feet of water and deeper down the lake. Also, try Cedar Creek dam area. Night fishing has been productive along underwater bars off points. |
| Bream: Excellent, using crickets and redworms. Fish during the early morning and late evening for bream during mayfly hatches near deep water. Also, try river drops around brush. |
Lake Murray:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using topwater lures early in the morning. Also try floating worms, jerkbaits and buzzbaits along the banks. Try fishing Texas rigged and Carolina rigged worms midday around stumps and rocky points. Also try pig and jig lures in 8 to 20 feet of water in grass. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, using down-rod with live herring, 20 to 60 feet deep, in up to 100 feet of water; also free-lining herring. Schooling activity reported early morning and late evening hours, try Pencil poppers and Zara Spooks. |
| Crappie: Fair, using minnows and jigs around brush piles in 8 to 20 feet of water and casting jigs. |
| Catfish: Fair, using cut herring and nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, casting beetle spins in white with red dot colors and yellow with black stripes. Also, try fishing redworms and crickets in 8 to 12 feet of water along the grass wall. |
| Shellcrackers: Fair, using redworms and baby nightcrawlers in 4 to 15 feet of water. |
Santee Cooper System
Lake Marion:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, using artificial worms, and topwater Rebels fishing along the banks and points early in the morning. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, using shad and live herring with down rod in about 20 feet of water. Trolling shad and herring has been productive. |
| Perch: Slow, Try jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. |
| Crappie: Good, Crappie are starting to bite in 16 feet of water, using small and medium minnows around deep brush piles, bridge pilings and piers. |
| Catfish: Good, fishing with live-herring and cut shad off the bottom in deep water. |
| Bream and Shellcrackers: Good, using crickets, in 5 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 in 30 feet of water with down-rods. Also, try flex-it spoons jigging and casting Trolling through schooling fish has also been productive. |
| Crappie: Fair, Try small to medium sized minnows around fish attraction areas and brush piles. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut shad, herring, menhaden, live large shiners and nightcrawlers 35 to 40 feet deep. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets, redworms, and small minnows, around manmade fish attractors, crappie beds and around the dam. |
| Shellcrackers: Fair, try redworms and green worms along the banks along river runs 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.
For South Carolina freshwater fish regulations:
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/pdf/
freshfishing.pdf
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