South Carolina DNR freshwater fishing report 11-23

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Mountains Area

Lake Jocassee:

Black Bass: Reasonable to excellent. Fish are starting to transfer back into creeks and coves following the bait and some schooling exercise is commencing to be noticed. The baitfish need to carry on to bunch up tighter and tighter and the bass motion ought to keep on to boost for the subsequent thirty day period.
Trout: Slow. Try out trolling minnows and spoons about 80 ft deep.

Lake Keowee:

Largemouth Bass: Truthful. Deep drop shotting and fishing shakey head worms will also catch fish and in ten-thirty ft using a 3/16 ounce Falcon Lures shakey head jig with a watermelon seed worm.

Lake Hartwell:

Crappie: Sluggish. Try setting out lights at evening in the Martin’s Creek region and fishing 12-20 ft deep with minnows.
Striped and Hybrid Bass: Gradual. Fish are shifting into greater creeks. Go with freelining, planer boards and downlines in 20-35 feet of h2o.
Largemouth Bass: Truthful. Creek fishing need to be respectable until temperatures get extremely cold, but the styles are generally unchanged from current months.
Catfish: Excellent. Channel catfish can be identified 20 ft down with nightcrawlers even though the blues are moving into the creeks about 17-twenty five feet. Use gizzards and shad for blues.

Piedmont Area

Lake Russell:

Largemouth and Noticed Bass: Honest. Spotted bass can be had on main lake details in 12-eighteen feet of drinking water. Use a spot remover with a finesse worm in cotton candy or green pumpkin color. Schooling action continues to be documented on the main river channel in which bass are keying in on colleges of small shad. When these fish are on the prime forged for them with a Very small Torpedo, but fishing a spoon or drop shot rig vertically in 15-twenty five ft of water in the locations where they demonstrate themselves is also efficient.
Striper: Truthful. Fishing patterns are the fairly considerably the identical as modern weeks, but some birds are arriving, which will make it less complicated to track down fish.

Lake Thurmond:

Bream: Good. The Herring Hut reviews that shellcracker are staying caught in the lake off long sloping points with mussels. Fish with nightcrawlers on the bottom. Under the dam in the Savannah River the bream bite is beginning fish aside from ledges fifteen-17 ft deep.
Largemouth Bass: Excellent. Fish around grass for greatest benefits in 15 ft of h2o. Use spinner bait and jigs, but the crucial is grass.
Striper: Honest. Fish are midway to the again of creeks with some reviews of nine and eleven pound fish. Planer boards, downlines and freelines are making. Very best motion about Raysville and the South Carolina Tiny River. No reports of a lot schooling.
Crappie: Good. Fish all around Raysville and the South Carolina Little River. Check the creeks and fish with minnows in sixteen-20 ft of h2o alongside creek channels.

Lake Wylie:

White perch: Excellent. The finest wager stays fishing modest minnows on the bottom from 18-22 ft deep.
Largemouth Bass: Fair. Related pattern as in weeks earlier, but fish have move about halfway up the creeks subsequent shad. Jerk baits and grubs should commence catching on soon.

Midlands Place

Lake Greenwood:

Catfish: Very good. Drifting minimize bait and shrimp in eighteen-28 feet of water alongside the river channel and throughout details and humps will catch the two quantities of fish and very good sized channel cats. A massive flathead or two could be mixed in with the catch. Catfish can also be caught by lender fishermen utilizing minimize bait or worms consider suspending the bait somewhat off the bottom with a float to imitate a Santee drifting rig.
Largemouth Bass: Great. Some schooling documented with bass scattered all over the lake. Popping a bug powering a cork or jigging off details near universities are each making. Also try a berry spoon. Fish ought to be moving shallow shortly.
Crappie: Honest. Crappie looks to have moved from deep brush piles into channels in about the ten foot depth variety. Use jigs in 6 to sixteen ft and try out spider rigging.

Lake Monticello: (unchanged from Nov. 17)

Catfish: Great. Anchoring over ledges holding baitfish and catfish and fishing with minimize bait continues to be efficient. Depth is not really crucial proper now but be certain that there are baitfish before environment up. Remember, patience is important.

Lake Wateree:

Largemouth Bass: Gradual, but enhancing. Comply with the shad to find bass.
Crappie: Really very good. Fish close to Dutchman’s Creek to the higher dam for finest final results. The fish are all alongside the previous river channel with some days in the channel and some on the ledge. Minnows and jigs are doing work just off the bottom.

Lake Murray: (unchanged from Nov. 17)

Catfish: Slowing. The fishing has slowed down for catfish, but is nevertheless first rate. Drifting lower bait in 20-35 feet of h2o via huge feeder creeks is producing. Minimize herring is tough to conquer as a bait choice on Lake Murray.
Largemouth Bass: Truthful. The greatest bite is coming in clear water with poor benefits in stained water. Get on the points early and then to the docks when the solar rises. Fish are shallow, but deep. Rocky locations are the very best with shakey head worms and jigs.
Striper: Truthful. Lots of space to appear for fish from mid-lake up to Black’s Bridge (Hwy. 391). Some schooling noted so search for the birds. Use planer boards, drifting with stay herring and downlines in 20-thirty feet of drinking water.
Shellcracker: Truthful. Finest final results in four-ten feet of water. Crickets and nightcrawlers usually make very good bait selections.
Crappie: Truthful. Fish in four-10 ft around brush in a creek mouth. Minnows and jigs are the bait of selection.

Santee Cooper Method

Bream: Very good. Fish above deep brushpiles in the 22-24 foot range. Nightcrawlers are a great bait. Striped Bass: Very good . In the morning great schooling activity is becoming reported and the relaxation of the day totally free-lining live bait seems to be the important.
Catfish: Good. Very good catches are becoming reported each deep and shallow. Proper now deep drinking water indicates thirty-forty feet and shallow drinking water is 4-10 ft deep. Shallow drinking water is greater at night, even with chilly winds, since the drinking water is typically as well apparent for very good day time fishing nevertheless, the shallows will also make for the duration of the day when there is some wind to break up the surface. On nights when there is latest in the diversion canal that region can be sizzling. The best baits consist of lower herring, shad and mullet and the two drifting and anchoring will work.