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 | Largemouth Bass: Fair. Try casting Carolina-rigged worms, topwater plugs and jerk baits with slow retrieve. |
| Trout: Good, trolling surface to 50 feet with Sutton, Doctor and Apex spoons. Also try drifting large minnows surface to 50 feet of water. |
| Smallmouth Bass: Fair. Try drifting large minnows and brown hair jigs around rocky points and rocky banks. |
| Crappie: Poor. Try small minnows and jigs around brush piles. |
| Catfish: Fair. Try nightcrawlers or cut bait on bottom. |
| Bream: Good, fishing with popping bugs, redworms and crickets around banks and brush. |
Lake Keowee:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, doodling with drop-shot rigs in 30-40 feet of water. Fish are moving deeper. Some schooling reported. |
| Crappie: Fair, just a few reports. Try small minnows and jigs in 10 to 15 feet of water around brush piles and bridge pilings. |
| Catfish: Good, using minnows, nightcrawlers and cut bait on the bottom. |
| Bream: Good, using crickets and redworms around brush piles, stumps and bridge pilings. |
Lake Hartwell:
| Largemouth Bass: Good. Try casting crank baits off points, and jigs around structure. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, using live herring or large shiners with down-rods in deep water around river channels. |
| Crappie: Good. Try using small and medium minnows along with small crappie jigs in 15 to 20 of water over brush and structure. |
| Catfish: Fair, using cut herring, large shiners, nightcrawlers, shrimp and chicken livers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Fair. Try using redworms and crickets under boat docks and bridges and brush piles. |
Piedmont Area
Lake Russell:
| Largemouth Bass: Slow. Try channels and deep creeks using jigging spoons and deep running crank baits. Also, try plastic worms along grass banks. |
| Yellow Perch: Good. Try fishing deep with medium minnows and jigging spoons. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, early morning with bucktails, cut, live herring and jigs especially when water is running below dam. |
| White Bass: Good, using bucktails, spinners and live bait below dam. |
| Crappie: Good, using minnows and jigs around brush piles and bridge pilings in 14 to 15 feet of water. Also try fishing jigs along banks with cover. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try using crickets and earthworms around bridge pilings. |
Lake Thurmond:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting plastic worms deep-running Rebels and ShadRaps. Yozuri plugs and Challenger plugs. |
| Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, using Little Cleos, Berry Spoons, 1/2 ounce yellow and white RoadRunners with bucktails and KastMasters around the dam in 30 to 50 feet of water. Also, try large minnows and live herring. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and jigs around deep brush tops. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut bait and nightcrawlers fishing on the bottom. |
| Bream and Shellcrackers: Slow. Try using earthworms in 5 to 10 feet of water around brush-tops. |
Lake Wylie:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting bass jigs and medium-running crankbaits along points close to the bottom. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, using spoons and bucktails behind Lake Wylie dam. |
| White Bass: Fair, below the dam casting smaller bucktails and spoons, improved. |
| Crappie: Good, using small minnows and jigs around brush tops in 12 to 20 feet of water. |
| Catfish: Good, fishing on the bottom. |
| Shellcrackers: Try using redworms and crickets on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try using earthworms and crickets around the banks. |
Midlands Area
Lake Greenwood:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, casting topwater plugs and crank bait. Plastic worms in around docks and structure in 5 to 10 feet of water during the day. Some larger fish are being caught on crank baits off points. |
| Stripers: Fair, behind the dam and fair in the lake using live bait. Try fishing small spinners and jigging Berry Spoons in 12 to 15 feet of water. |
| White Bass and White Perch: Good, fish are schooling in the upper part of the lake. Try using small spinners and jigging spoons. |
| 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: Good, using cut bait and blood bait off points in 8 to 15 feet of water on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow, 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: Fair, 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. Stripers are schooling at the mouth of Beaver Creek. Good catches reported with top water plugs. Stripers also suspended in 15 to 22 feet of water all over the lake. |
| White Bass: Good: Try shad-like baits off points. School activity has been reported at the mouth of beaver creek late in the afternoon. |
| Crappie: Good, try minnows 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. Fish are being caught in Wateree, Singleton and Beaver creek areas. |
| 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: Fair. Try worms and crickets fished around piers with brush. |
Lake Murray:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using topwater lures early in the morning. Also try floating worms, and spinner bait along the banks. Try fishing Texas rigged and Carolina rigged worms midday around stumps and rocky points. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, try live herring on down-rods in 30 to 60 feet of water. Schooling activity has been reported from Shull Island to the Gap. |
| Crappie: Fair, using jigs and small tuffy minnows trolling in creek runs and fishing brush piles in 10 to 15 feet of water. |
| White Perch: Good, try jigging spoons and tuffies or worms. |
| Catfish: Good, using cut herring and nightcrawlers on the bottom. |
| Bream: Slow. Try fishing redworms and crickets around grass wall and docks with brush. Try Beetlespins, white with red dot, when live bait does not produce. |
| Shellcrackers: Fair, using redworms and baby nightcrawlers in 6 to 20 feet of water off points. |
Santee Cooper System
Lake Marion:
| Largemouth Bass: Good, using artificial worms, topwater rebel lures, fishing along the banks and point. |
| Striped Bass: Fair, using shad and live herring with down rod in about 20 feet of water. Trolling shad and herring has been productive. |
| White Perch: Slow, Try jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. |
| Crappie: Good, Crappie are starting to bite in 16 to 18 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: Slow. Try using redworms and crickets in 4 to 8 feet of water. |
Lake Moultrie:
| Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting spinnerbaits, plastic worms and lizards along docks and structure around Hog Swamp in shallow water. |
| Striped Bass: Good, casting topwater lures like Devil's Horse to fish schooling, noted in past week. |
| Crappie: Good, caught over the deep water brush piles and using minnows and jigs. |
| Catfish: Good, biting well during the day in deep water drop off's using cut bait, especially mullet. Menhaden are schooling and reports of 35 and 50 lb fish are being caught in the Bonneau area of the lake. |
| Bream: Fair. Caught in the Diversion Canal and in deep water brush piles using crickets and worms. |
| Shellcrackers: Slow, 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 - Mr. David
Sweat
South Carolina
freshwater fish regulations
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