South Carolina DNR Freshwater report 8-5

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Mountains Region

Lake Jocassee:

Largemouth Bass: Fair. Patterns are fairly a lot the exact same with the heat. H2o ranges have dropped so fish are shifting deeper and the dimensions of the fish is smaller sized. Finest and late evening casting Carolina-rigged worms, purple watermelon plastic worms and jerk baits with gradual retrieve.
Trout (unchanged from July 28): Honest. Captain Steve Pietrykowski advises that the fishing has slowed. Bites are spread out and you have to perform to catch fish. Trolling in the sixty-70 foot range has been most productive and live shiners are outfishing spoons appropriate now. A couple of fish are nevertheless getting caught on hardware. The very best action is in the primary lake and fishing at the intakes has been hit or skip. Evening fishing has only been fair, but suspending nightcrawlers and shiners twenty five to forty ft down near the intakes should catch some fish.

Lake Keowee: (no change from July 28)

Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Gradual to honest. Guide Brad Fowler reports that early in the day there is occasional topwater exercise, but overall fishing has slowed in the puppy days of summertime. After the sun will get up anglers require to drop back again and fish drop shot rigs, Carolina rigs and shakey head worms more than deep framework such as points and humps. Several anglers are heading up the lake to the cooler, running h2o under the Lake Jocassee dam. At night time some fish shift shallower where they can be caught on worms all around brush and lighted docks.

Lake Hartwell:

Striper: Fair. The fish are even now somewhat deep at 35-fifty feet off the primary details and edges more than trees. Troll umbrella rigs, no cost-lining live herring and big minnows and jigging. Catfish: Gradual. Scaled-down fish appears to be biting effectively. Zip baits are outperforming anything at all else appropriate now. Blues are gradual, but some fishing can be had at night. Large flatheads can occasional be caught with big shiners, nightcrawlers or shrimp. Crappie: Sluggish. The fish have moved marginally deeper at 20-thirty feet more than trees in the principal lake or over brush. A few are currently being caught all around deeper bridges with minnows.

Piedmont Place

Lake Russell:

Largemouth Bass: Honest, casting shallow-working crankbaits, plastic worms all around flats and details. Greater late in the night.
Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair, employing bucktails, reduce and reside herring and jigs under the dam if the drinking water is running.
Catfish: Excellent, utilizing lower bait and nightcrawlers on the bottom and all around the riprap at bridges.

Lake Thurmond:

Striper: Really very good. Fish at 35-40 ft on the bottom with reside herring, especially in entrance of the dam. Some trolling in the afternoon is generating about 25 feet down largely with bucktails. Some motion noted at the top of the lake in the tailrace.
Crappie: Gradual. The summer time lull is on and there are not good figures, but the fish they do catch are fair dimensions. Examine close to 25 ft deep for finest final results with medium and big minnows.
Largemouth: Bettering. Some schooling activity noted on the surface area since the shad and tiny herring are in the top rated of the drinking water column, but it is all about the lake and can be challenging to uncover. Forged plastic worms for best outcomes.
Shellcracker: Good. The fish are bedding all more than the lake even though it really is a bit late in the time. A worm on a split shot will produce.

Lake Wylie:

Largemouth: Very poor. Not well worth the hard work. Bass are not generating.
Bream: Fair. The bedding has slowed down and most of the fish are offshore. There is some schooling activity, but it is challenging to get them at the correct time or discover them. A traditional needle in the haystack, but find ’em and the outcomes are excellent employing earthworms.
Catfish: Quite great. Even with the warmth there have been some reviews of massive blues on the bottom with a assortment of baits.

Midlands Region

Lake Greenwood:

Bass fishing: Gradual. Sportsman’s Buddy reports your very best bet is likely early and late. Some schooling exercise described close to the lake, but there is no set pattern. Cloudy days are reportedly greater. Topwater lures and floating worms are a good bet.
Crappie (unchanged from July 28): Sluggish to fair. Sportsman’s Pal reviews that the greatest fishing is at night all around bridge pilings, brush and other manmade structure and cover in 20-thirty ft of drinking water. Cover and construction in creek channels may possibly be very best, and the two minnows and jigs will catch fish.
Bream: Fair. Good around docks and coves.

Lake Wateree:

Catfish: Very great. Many anglers are coming back again with crammed coolers with some big fish scattered in smaller ones. Consider nightcrawlers, shrimp, small items of lower bait and live shad.
White perch: Very very good casting and jigging grubs and minnows.
Largemouth: Poor. Little jigs, modest worms on Carolina rigs and other finesse-style baits, but practically nothing significantly is genuinely creating.
Crappie: Fair. The fish have moved deeper to 15-21 ft over brush piles. Early in morning about brush later on in the day in the brush have made final results with jigging.

Lake Murray:

Striper: Lake World reports that some fish are nevertheless on the surface from time to time, but mainly have a wide assortment of 30-80 ft. Open up h2o humps are also generating. Trolling is beginning to enhance with Roadrunners. Any rain moves the fish up the h2o column.
Shellcracker: Fair. Check all around 12-fifteen feet. The fish are more difficult to locate, but very good when you do. Use redworms, infant nightcrawlers and crickets.
Crappie: Honest. No actual change besides the fish are virtually in a spring-like pattern only a handful of ft deep in rivers and creeks. Still stay above the brush and drop minnows down twelve-20 feet.

Santee Cooper System (unchanged from July 28)

Crappie: Very good. Captain Steve English reviews that the crappie bite continues to be sturdy close to offshore brushpiles in seven-18 ft of water in the two the upper and reduce lake. Some really nice fish more than 2 kilos have been caught in ten-twelve ft of water. The greatest brush is proximate to depth changes, and fish will just take equally minnows and jigs. Use your trolling motor to maintain over the brush. Summer time warmth does not always drive the fish deep, and so fish may remain all around brush at this depth for some time.
Bream: Great. Captain Steve English studies that bream are scattered out in 3-five ft of drinking water all around grass, lily pads and shallow brush. Crickets are the best bait. They will spawn all through the summer season on the complete moons, and at these instances they will be located about shallow beds.
Largemouth bass: Gradual to honest. Captain Jimmie Hair (843-553-1139) reports that fishing remains more tough with the intensive heat, and he is even now focusing on significantly of his work in the swamp previously mentioned the I-95 Bridge. Fish in the shade of cypress trees in five-10 ft of h2o. Captain Hair is creating his best catches on a creature bait referred to as an Hideous Otter. In the primary lakes the shallow bite has turned off, but a handful of fish can be caught off drops on Carolina rigs. In the Cooper River fishing stays robust since of the existing and cooler h2o temperatures. one-two pound fish can nevertheless be caught at the decrease levels of the tide on Senkos, with the finest tide being the outgoing about the ditches and rice fields. The finest river bite for larger fish is in the late night and after dark. Huge worms and buzzbaits will catch quality fish, but the very best evening-time lure is a black jitterbug.