South Carolina DNR freshwater fishing report 2-9

Mountains Place
Piedmont Place
Midlands Location
Santee Cooper System
SC Freshwater Fishing Rules (Adobe PDF)
Purchase a fishing license
Boat Ramp Places
State Fish Intake Advisories

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Mountains Area

Lake Jocassee: (unchanged from Feb. two)

Trout: Good. Captain Steve Pietrykowski reviews the trout are eating a tiny of every thing. Reside Shiners always appears to perform, but modest spoons and rapalas are functioning effectively. Fishing the surface area down to fifty feet looks to be the greatest. There has been a very good focus of bait up the rivers, but fish have been caught spread out by means of the lake.

Lake Keowee:

Largemouth Bass: Very good, doodling plastic worms, jigging spoons and drop-shotting lures on the bottom thirty to 50 feet down.
Crappie: Fair. Try little minnows and jigs in ten to fifteen ft of h2o around brush piles and bridge pilings.
Catfish: Very good, using nightcrawlers and minimize bait. Bream: Slow. Try red-worms about brush piles and all around stumps.

Lake Hartwell:

Largemouth Bass: Good, utilizing buzzbaits and planer boards to get bait shut to shore. Also consider deep-jogging crankbaits.
Crappie: Fair, utilizing medium minnows in about 10 feet of h2o.
Catfish: Very good, making use of shrimp and chicken livers, lower herring, big shiners, and nightcrawlers on the bottom. Bream: Very good, employing red worms around brush piles.

Piedmont Location

Lake Russell:

Largemouth Bass: Slow. Try out casting deepwater crankbaits. Yellow Perch: Slow. Try out fishing minnows deep.
Striped and Hybrid Bass: Honest. Try early morning with bucktails, lower, are living herring and jigs specifically when drinking water is jogging underneath dam.
White Bass: Inadequate. Try bucktails, spinners and reside bait underneath dam. Crappie: Reasonable. Try employing minnows and jigs around brush piles and bridges.
Catfish: Honest, employing cut bait on the bottom.
Bream: Slow. Try out fishing deep with crickets or live worms.

Lake Thurmond:

Largemouth Bass: Reasonable. Try casting plastic worms and Cleos.
Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, using Roadrunners, Mr. Champ spoons or deep-jogging Rebels. Crappie: Sluggish. Try out close to docks employing jigs and minnows.
Catfish: Honest, employing reduce bait, nightcrawlers and livers on the bottom.
Bream: Reasonable, using earthworms close to the banking institutions.

Lake Wylie: (unchanged from Feb. 2)

White perch: Quite very good. Seem for big educational institutions in eighteen to 24 ft, and fish dwell minnows vertically or small spoons.
Crappie: Reasonable. Look in eighteen to 20 ft more than brush. Fish with tiny minnows or jigs.
Largemouth Bass: Good. Fishing with reaction kind baits like crankbaits and jerkbaits is sluggish, but shaky head worms or other soft plastics fished little by little versus boat docks are creating. Catfish: Good, Greatest fishing is coming work deep h2o along river channels and ledges. Use cut bait, like shad, perch, and herring.

Midlands Place

Lake Greenwood:

Largemouth Bass: Fair. Try making use of crankbaits off primary points or jigging all around brush piles and deep holes.
Stripers: Honest, utilizing live bait, herring or shad twenty to 25 feet deep. White Perch: Honest, jigging bucktails and berry spoons 15-20 feet deep.
Crappie: Fair, using minnows and mini jigs in black and chartreuse more than brush in 10 to twenty feet of water.
Catfish: Reasonable, utilizing cut bait and worms on the bottom.
Bream: Poor. Try out employing crickets and red worms.

Lake Monticello: (unchanged from Feb. 2)

Catfish: Reasonable. Anchoring on main lake humps and details with steep ledges is most productive for putting big blue catfish in the boat staying individual and remaining in 1 spot for a whilst can genuinely pay off. Cut gizzard shad, large threadfin shad, and white perch look to be the greatest baits.

Lake Wateree: (unchanged from Feb. 2)

Catfish: Very good. Look for educational institutions of bait just before anchoring or starting a drift.
Crappie: Honest. Very best fishing is coming drifting or trolling in 14 to fifteen feet. The most popular shades have been John Deere (yellow and green), black and blue, and huge minnows fished on gold, but not red, hooks.
Striped Bass: Honest. Striped bass fishing has slowed significantly in the last couple of weeks even though dwell shiners or herring in the reduced element of the lake will nonetheless generate. Seem for universities of bait in the Colonel’s Creek place.
Largemouth Bass: Slow. Try finesse fishing very little by little with gentle plastics, or sluggish roll spinnerbaits along the bottom.

Lake Murray:

Largemouth Bass: Good. Try out 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 twelve feet.
Crappie: Good, making use of jigs and modest tuffies trolling the creek runs, at 4 to fifteen ft, and in the higher part of the lake all around the confluence of the minor and big Saluda rivers and Camp Barstow. Consider medium minnows about brush piles, docks and all around bridge pilings, at six to twenty five ft.
Catfish: Honest, utilizing cut herring and nightcrawlers on bottom.
Bream: Honest. Fish with redworms, baby nightcrawlers and crickets in 3 to twelve feet of drinking water.
Shellcrackers: Excellent, employing redworms and infant nightcrawlers in four to 15 feet all around a flooded grass edge, rocks, stumps and other composition.

Santee Cooper Method (unchanged from Feb. two)

Blue catfish: Bettering. Captain Jim Glenn reports the catches in conditions of figures have been bettering not too long ago. Blue cats have been caught in different depths rather continually. Depths from a number of feet to 55 feet have created fish. Focusing on blue cats in and all around massive colleges of bait fish in deep drinking water remains a rather steady technique for winter. Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie are very similar appropriate now with ways to fishing for blue cats.
Striped Bass: Honest. Captain Jim Glenn studies that both lakes carry on to generate a lot of sub authorized stripers. Stripers can nevertheless be noticed schooling in equally lakes, but not as typically as in earlier weeks. Shad could not be as likely to arrive to the surface as often as they would in warmer water when becoming chased by stripers. Fishing in and about dense universities of bait with are living bait or spoons and jigs and trolling are all effective appropriate now. Some individuals will use huge shiners drifted possibly underneath a float or just suspended under the boat with a sinker and swiveled leader. Stripers will be scattered in numerous depths based on where they can uncover bait. Some striper fishermen have caught amounts of stripers in a couple of feet of h2o if bait is current in the region.