Freshwater Fishing Trends

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Mountains Area
Lake Jocassee:

[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Fair, casting Carolina-rigged worms and jigging spoons. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Trout: Fair, fishing early morning using minnows and herring 30 feet and up. Also trolling early morning and during the day with Sutton spoons in water 40 feet and up. Report of some night fishing activity producing catches on cut bait. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Smallmouth Bass: Fair, casting brown hair jigs or drifting live bait on rocky points and rocky banks. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Slow. Try small minnows and jigs around brush piles. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Fair, using night crawlers or cut bait on bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Fair, using redworms around banks and brush. [/font]
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Lake Keowee:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Good, Try drop-shot Carolina-rigged worms and doodling in green or red colors and jigging spoons in 30 to 50 feet of water off rocky points after mid-morning and in the mouths of creeks. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Fair. Try small minnows and jigs in 10 to 15 feet of water around brush piles and bridge pilings. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Good, using nightcrawlers and cut bait on the bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Slow. Try red-worms around brush piles and around stumps. [/font]
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Lake Hartwell:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Good, using buzzbaits and planer boards to get bait close to shore. Also try casting plastic purple worms. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, up the creeks with live herring and large minnows also with down-rods in deep water around river channels 15 to 30 feet deep and using umbrella rigs. Trolling activity has increased, try depths of 15 to 25 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Good. Try using small and medium minnows along with small crappie jigs in 15 to 20 of water over brush and structure. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Good, using shrimp and chicken livers, cut herring, large shiners, nightcrawlers on the bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Slow. Try using redworms and crickets under boat docks and bridges. [/font]
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Piedmont Area

Lake Russell:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Fair. Try jigging in 40 feet of water. Also try channels and deep creeks using jigging spoons and deep-running crank baits. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Yellow Perch: Fair. Try fishing deep with medium minnows and jigging spoons. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair. Try early morning with bucktails, cut, live herring and jigs especially when water is running below dam. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]White Bass: Poor. Try bucktails, spinners and live bait below dam. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Fair. Try using minnows and jigs around brush piles and bridges. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Fair, using cut bait on the bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Fair. Try using red wigglers and nightcrawlers. [/font]
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Lake Thurmond:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Slow, using Cleos.[/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good, using Roadrunners, spoons or Mr. Champ spoons. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Good, around docks using jigs and minnows. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Fair, using cut bait, nightcrawlers and livers on the bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Fair, using crickets, worms and popping bugs. [/font]
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Lake Wylie:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Good, casting Carolina-rigged worms and plastic crawfish jigs. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]White Bass: Good, below the dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Excellent, using small minnows and jigs around brush tops in a variety of depths.[/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Good, fishing on the bottom with a variety of baits. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Shellcrackers: Try using redworms and crickets on the bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Slow. Try redworms and nightcrawlers from the bank. [/font]
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Midlands Area

Lake Greenwood:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Fair. Try crankbaits, jigs, plastic worms and lizards around points and brush piles in 12 to 15 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Stripers: Fair, using live bait, herring or shad 20 to 25 feet deep. Also casting spoons and bucktails to schools. Some stripers being caught behind the dam. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]White Perch: Good, casting jigs and bucktails to schools. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Fair, using minnows and mini jigs in black and chartreuse over brush in 10 to 20 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Slow. Try red worms along shore and docks. [/font]
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Lake Wateree:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Slow. Try fishing deep with Hopkins spoons or pig and jigs on structure such as humps and rises. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped bass: Good. Try fishing with down-rods 14 feet deep with small shiners in 25-35 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]White Bass: Slow. Try trolling shad-like baits or same as striper fishing. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Good, trolling jigs, grubs and minnows 10 to 15 deep in creeks.[/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Slow. Try red worms along the bank. [/font]
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Lake Murray:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Try using Texas and Carolina rig finesse baits with a shaky jig head on the edge of flooded grass and broom straw. Use spinner baits in the shallows, pig and jig around brush at 8 to 12 feet and flukes on points and spoons in 45 to 60 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped Bass: Good catches in backs of creeks, free lining herring and using plainer boards. Some schooling activity throughout the day from Shull Island to Rocky Creek. Good catches in schools casting double rigged buck tails, Ice Flies. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Good, using jigs and small tuffies trolling the creek runs, at 4 to 15 feet, and in the upper part of the lake around the confluence of the little and big Saluda rivers and Camp Barstow. Try medium minnows around brush piles, docks and around bridge pilings, at 6 to 18 feet. Some crappie caught as deep as 45 feet in the creeks. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]White Perch: Good, jigging Flex-it spoons down 30 to 60 feet and using small tuffies and red worms. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Good, using cut herring and nightcrawlers on bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Fair. Fish with redworms, baby nightcrawlers and crickets in 3 to 12 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Shellcrackers: Good, using redworms and baby nightcrawlers in 4 to 15 feet around a flooded grass edge, rocks, stumps and other structure. [/font]
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Santee Cooper System

Lake Marion:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Good, using and bucktails and artificial worms fishing along the banks and point early in the morning. Also try artificial worms deep. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped Bass: Good, using live shiner with down rods in 25 feet of water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]White Perch: Slow, Try jigging off the bottom with Hopkins spoons. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Fair, Try using small and medium minnows over deep brush piles, bridge pilings and piers. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Excellent, using cut shad off the bottom in deep water. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream and Shellcrackers: Slow. Try using redworms and crickets in 4 to 8 feet of water.[/font]
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Lake Moultrie:
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Largemouth Bass: Fair, Use spinnerbaits and Sammie lures. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Striped Bass: Fair, casting and trolling. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Crappie: Fair, using small to medium minnows and Beetlespins around fish attraction areas and brush piles. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Catfish: Good, using cut shad, herring, menhaden, mullet, live large shiners and nightcrawlers 25 to 40 feet deep on bottom. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Bream: Fair. Try using crickets, redworms, and small minnows, around manmade fish attractors, crappie beds and around the dam around grates at powerhouse. [/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS, Arial, Helvetica"]Shellcrackers: Slow, try redworms and green worms along the banks along river runs and points. [/font]
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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: [url "http://www.dnr.state.sc.us/regs/pdf/freshfishing.pdf"]http://www.dnr.state.sc.us/regs/pdf/freshfishing.pdf[/url] [/font]
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