South Carolina DNR Freshwater report 9-22

Mountains Place
Piedmont Location
Midlands Region
Santee Cooper Method
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Mountains Region

Lake Jocassee:

Largemouth bass: Enhancing. Comparable pattern to previous weeks, but the fish are moving shallow with very low drinking water ranges. Try out Spooks and Jitterbugs.
Trout: Honest. Captain Steve Pietrykowski reports the trout are deep and trolling in the huge drinking water 70-110 ft down has been most efficient. Are living shiners and spoons will each catch fish, but the live bait has been making greater than hardware.

Lake Keowee:

Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Fair, but bettering. Manual Brad Fowler reviews some schooling across the lake and fish are also following bait into the backs of creeks and normally are likely shallower. Dropshots appear to doing work greatest.

Lake Hartwell:

Largemouth Bass: Honest. Fish are spread out around the lake from deep to shallow. Verify buzzbaits shallow and topwater lures over deep water. Striper: Truthful. Best fishing coming in at 50 to 70 ft more than 90 ft in excess of water with lower and dwell herring and jigs.
Crappie: Truthful. Fish in 10 to twenty feet over brush piles using minnows.
Catfish: Good. Scaled-down fish can be located at twelve to twenty feet and even larger fish at fifty to sixty ft. The best bite coming off reduce herring. Flatheads performing well at night time on brush at twenty to 35 ft.

Piedmont Place

Lake Russell:

Striper: Fair. Fish below the dam with herring on freelines, but quickly the fish will be scattered close to mid-lake and creeks. There aren’t numerous striper in Russell so it can be hit or skip. Trolling is also creating.
Bass: Extremely very good. Fish from 20 to 25 ft in significant coves and the principal lake with dropshot rigs and jigging spoons. Locate the huge fish by heading up river and on the edge of channels. Appear for colleges of bait fish.
Crappie: Truthful. Greatest fishing in ten to 12 feet over bush with minnows in coves and in excess of murky creeks.
Catfish: Honest. Reduce herring off the bottom is generating.

Lake Thurmond:

Striper: Really excellent. Very best fishing in really some time. Schooling is strong for 2 to three pounders with greater fish combined in. Greatest fish are 70 feet down above ninety ft of drinking water. Bass: Enhancing. Buzzbaits and floating worms close to financial institutions are producing. Fish off details with jigs and Carolina rigs. The smaller bass are schooling.

Lake Wylie:

Largemouth Bass: Honest. Bait fish are reportedly flowing into the again of creeks. Spooks on the surface are producing and anything that imitates a shad.

Midlands Location

Lake Greenwood:

Largemouth bass: Improving. Topwater fishing is displaying some motion as the bite continues to boost with cooler h2o. There is nonetheless schooling motion all in excess of the lake with little striper mixed in. Also fish about brush in 10 to twelve feet with jigs and worms.
Crappie: Strengthening. Fishing with jigs about brush in ten to 12 feet of h2o is your best bet.

Lake Wateree:

Crappie: Truthful. Fish are heading shallower about twelve to 16 feet above brush and nearer to the banks. Jigs are nevertheless ideal, but minnows are enhancing as bait.
Catfish: Excellent. Captain Rodger Taylor reviews that in spite of the heat the catfish bite is awesome. Drifting the mid-lake flats in 4-10 feet of h2o is producing large numbers of channel and small blue catfish, and bigger blue cats in the 10-20 pound array are also combined in together with some much bigger fish.

Lake Murray:

Striper: Good. Lake World reviews excellent schooling all above the decrease fifty percent of the lake. Trolling with Stretch 25’s, bucktails and downline herring in about twenty five ft is generating.
Largemouth Bass: Very good. Fish are shifting shallower and you can get results on flukes and huge worms fishing about factors. Some topwater exercise is documented.

Santee Cooper Technique

Largemouth bass: Strengthening. Captain Jimmie Hair studies that bait has began to transfer into creeks and the bass are subsequent. Gentle plastics all around wood and grass are making. Lake levels are down so cautious operating. Topwater lures are slow. Use sinkos or fluke type plastics for best final results.
Crappie: Excellent. Greatest benefits at 10 to fifteen feet over brush at 17 to twenty five feet deep. More numbers can be had in the higher lake with bigger fish in the reduced lake. Jigs and minnows are operating.
Bream: Excellent. Brush piles at 18 to 25 ft and around the canal in the vicinity of grass are showing results.