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LAKE JOCASSEE: Largemouth Bass: Fair, slow retrieves with plastic worms, casting Carolina-rigged worms, and topwater plugs Good catches in the early morning. Trout: Very Good, trolling with Apex lures, Sutton spoons and Yozuri baits from surface to 30 feet deep. Also try free-lining large minnows for trout. These fish are averaging 3 to 5 pounds. Recent catches of 3.5 to 4.8 pound trout are reported. Also good catches reported with crippled herring jigs in shallow water and with live minnows. Smallmouth Bass: Slow, drifting large minnows and brown hair jigs around rocky points and rocky banks. Crappie: Slow, Try small minnows and jigs around brush piles. Catfish: Fair, using nightcrawlers or cut bait on bottom. Bream: Fair, using popping bugs and red worms around banks and brush. Water temperature is 50 and water is clear.
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LAKE KEOWEE: Largemouth Bass: Excellent, Try doodling and drop shotting Carolina-rigged worms in green or red colors and jigging spoons in 30 to 50 feet of water in the mouths of creeks and off rocky points after mid-morning. Fish in the 1 to 3.5-pound range reported Crappie: Very Good, 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. Recent catches of 5 to 8-pound fish reported. Bream: Fair, using redworms around brush piles and around stumps. Also, try fishing around bridge pilings. Water temperature is 46 degrees and clear.
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LAKE HARTWELL: Largemouth Bass: Excellent, using 5 to 6-inch lizards, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, topwater lures, and Trick worms fishing off points. Best catches reported at dawn and dusk Also try fishing in coves. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Excellent, using jigging spoons, and live herring with down-rods in deep water around river channels 15 to 20 feet deep. Schooling activity on the lake has also increased. Crappie: Good, using medium minnows, grubs and small jigs. Fish are moving into deeper water around brush piles. Catfish: Very Good, using cut herring, large shiners nightcrawlers, shrimp and chicken livers on the bottom. Bream: Fair, using redworms and crickets around brush piles and cover. Water temperature is 50 to 52 degrees and clear.
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LAKE RUSSELL: Largemouth Bass: Fair, try deep humps with deep running crankbaits and jigging spoons. Yellow Perch: Very Good, fishing medium minnows deep and jigging spoons. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Excellent, early morning with bucktails, cut and live herring and jigs especially when water is running below dam. Reports of 9 to 10-pound fish being caught. White Bass: Poor, using bucktails, spinners and live bait below dam. Crappie: Very Good, using minnows around brush piles and bridge pilings. 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. Water temperature is 48 degrees and clear.
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LAKE THURMOND: Largemouth Bass: Good, casting plastic worms. Also try Little Cleos and spinnerbaits. Good catches with deep running rebels and shad raps. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Excellent, using Cleos, Berry Spoons 1/4 ounce yellow and white Road Runners and KastMasters. Also try large minnows and live herring. Fish are being caught in the 12 to 15-pound range. Crappie: Good, using small minnows and jigs around deep brush tops. Some limits being caught. Catfish: Fair, using cut bait and nightcrawlers fishing on the bottom. Bream: Fair, using Louisiana pink worms and jumbo redworms around the banks.
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LAKE WYLIE: Largemouth Bass: Good, casting bass jigs and medium running crank baits. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Spoons and Bucktails. White Bass: Good, fish are schooling in the afternoon. Crappie: Excellent, using small minnows and chartreuse jigs around rip-rap, docks and brush tops. Recent 3.6- pound crappie has been reported caught. Limits are also being report caught. 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.
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LAKE GREENWOOD: Largemouth Bass: Good, jigging slow in 25 to 30 feet of water with pig and jig and crank bait. Stripers: Good, behind the dam using flukes and bombers and Good in the lake using berry spoons and live bait. Try jigging Berry Spoons in 25 to 30 feet of water. White Bass and White Perch: Good, fish are deep in 20 to 30 feet of water. Try using jigging spoons. Crappie: Good, using small to medium minnows and mini jigs over brush in 20 to 25 feet of water. Catfish: Good, using cut bait and blood bait off points in 12 to 20 feet of water on the bottom. Bream: Slow, using redworms along shore and docks.
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LAKE WATEREE: Largemouth Bass: Fair, try using, pig and jig. Fish off deeper piers Striped Bass: Fair, using live shad with down-rods in 20 to 25 feet of water. White Bass: Slow: Try shad-like baits off points. Crappie: Good, try minnows Wow grubs and slider worms tight lining in 12 to 15 feet of water mostly on the ledges. Smaller crappie have moved into shallow water, 3-5 feet around piers and docks. 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. Bream: Slow, try using worms.
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LAKE MURRAY: Largemouth Bass: Good, in 1 to 8 foot of water and on the inside of the grass line on small shad rap and spinnerbaits. Also Carolina rigged and Texas rigged worms are being used. Recent Bass Tournament held on the lake with a 5 fish limit; 1st place weighed in at 20-pounds, 2nd place 15-pound and 3rd place 12-pounds with large fishing weighing in at 8-pounds. Striped Bass: Good, try live herring on free line or with a cork. Schooling activity has been reported in all hours of the day from Shull Island to the Little and Big Saluda Rivers. Try a double rigged set-up with buck tail, trailing it with an ice fly. Cast this set of lures to schooling fish. Also try a striper delight. Crappie: Fair, using jigs and small tuffy minnows trolling in creek runs and fishing brush piles in 15 to 20 feet of water. White Perch: Good, try jigging spoons and tuffies or worms. Catfish: Fair, using cut herring and nightcrawlers on the bottom. Bream: Good, try fishing redworms and crickets in 10 to 20 feet of water along the grass wall. Limits are being caught. Shellcrackers: Fair, using redworms and baby night crawlers in 10 feet of water to the bottom. Water is clear and 57 degrees.
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LAKE MARION: Largemouth Bass: Good, using artificial worms, topwater rebel lures, fishing along the banks and point early in the morning. Striped Bass: Fair, using shad and live herring with down rod in about 24 to 30 feet of water. Trolling shad and herring has been productive. Some fish weighing 15-pounds are being reported caught. White Perch: Slow, Try jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. Crappie: Fair, Crappie are starting to bite in 20 feet of water, using small and medium minnows around deep brush piles, bridge pilings and piers. Catfish: Excellent, fishing with live herring and cut shad off the bottom in deep water. Recent catch of a 45-pound catfish has been reported. Bream and Shellcrackers: Good, using redworms, in 8 to 10 feet of water and limits are report.
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LAKE MOULTRIE: Largemouth Bass: Good, casting, spinnerbaits, plastic worms and lizards along docks and structure. Striped Bass: Good, fishing live herring in 30 feet of water with down-rods. Fish are schooling try Flex-it spoons jigging and casting Striper Swipers in schooling fish. Trolling through schooling fish has also been productive. Striped bass in the 8 to 18-pound range are being caught. Limits of these fish are being reported daily. Crappie: Fair, Try small to medium sized minnows around fish attraction areas and brush piles. Catfish: Excellent, using cut shad, herring, menhaden, live large shiners and nightcrawlers 40 to 50 feet deep. Bream: Good, using crickets, public fish attractors. Fish are in 8 to 25 feet of water on beds. Shellcrackers: Fair, try redworms and green worms along the banks along river runs and points. Catches reported t in the canal area in the 2 to 4 pound range.
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