Fish biting at S.C. lakes
Catfish, crappie, hybrids and stripers at some South Carolina lakes appear to be providing the best angling action.The catfish and crappie are hitting best at Lake Wateree and the Santee-Cooper impoundments, Lakes Marion and Moultrie.
Hybrids and striped bass are most active at Lakes Hartwell and Thurmond.
In North Carolina, the upper end of Fontana Lake is yielding some sizable largemouth and smallmouth bass.
Coastal saltwater activity generally is the slowest it has been this winter, in part because of rough sea conditions. Fishing Forecast | Tom Higgins
The Report
1. LAKE NORMAN:
Stripers on live baits worked 40 feet deep in the major creek arms. Scattered catfish, crappie, white perch.
2. LAKE WYLIE: Largemouth bass on jerkbaits worked along the shoreline. Some limits of crappie around cover 15-20 feet deep on jigs, minnows. Catfish in the river channel on cut bait.
3. LAKES BADIN, TILLERY, BLEWETT FALLS: Crappie on minnows and Kalin jigs in the yellow/white Acid Rain pattern. Good for catfish, especially in the Pee Dee River below Blewett Falls Dam.
4. HIGH ROCK LAKE: Scattered crappie, but otherwise little activity reported.
5. LAKES HICKORY, RHODHISS: Good to excellent for crappie on minnows at Rhodhiss, improving for crappie at Hickory.
6. LAKE JAMES: Scattered crappie, smallmouth bass on live baits.
7. FONTANA LAKE: Largemouth, smallmouth in the Tsali area uplake on quarter-ounce artificial crawfish jigged 50 feet deep.
8. LAKE WATEREE: Stripers in the lower part of the reservoir on goldfish, shiners when wind/water conditions are favorable. Plentiful crappie, especially in the Beaver Creek and Fishing Creek arms on minnows. Catfish in deep holes on cut bait.
9. LAKE HARTWELL: Quite a few limits of stripers, hybrids on jigging spoons and umbrella rigs fished 20-35 feet down. Scattered largemouth 25-40 feet deep on jigging spoons. Crappie around brush on jigs, minnows.
10. LAKE JOCASSEE: Lots of trout on shiners and trolled Bad Creek spoons from the surface down to 40 feet. Largemouth, redeye on spoons jigged 60-80 feet deep.
11. LAKE KEOWEE: Largemouth, spotted bass 30-70 feet down on drop-shot rigs.
12. LAKE MURRAY: Big numbers of striped bass being boated, but few of keeper size. They're hitting live herring, shiners and lures trolled 35 feet deep. Some limit catches of crappie around cover 8-15 feet deep on jigs, minnows. Scattered largemouth on skirted spinnerbaits worked around points.
13. LAKE THURMOND: Stripers up to 37 pounds, hybrids on herring, shiners drift-fished in main lake areas. Large spoons and bucktails in a yellow/white pattern also are producing strikes. Crappie around shoreline cover on minnows.
14. SANTEE-COOPER RESERVOIR: At Lake Marion: Because of drought-created low water conditions, finding a usable boat ramp is tough. Those who do are catching plenty of catfish 15-30 feet deep on threadfin shad. Crappie around logs and other cover 15-25 feet down on jigs, minnows. At Lake Moultrie: Largemouth on crankbaits, pig-and-jig combinations and spinnerbaits. Catfish on cut herring, other oily baits on bottom 30-40 feet deep. Crappie around man-made fish attractors on jigs, minnows.
15. OUTER BANKS: Reds, trout in the backwaters near Morehead City and around the rock jetty at Cape Lookout. King mackerel, wahoo offshore around Big Rock rock when sea conditions are favorable. Puppy drum in the surf at Ocracoke Island on gold-colored spoons when the water warms into the low to mid-50s.
16. SOUTHEASTERN N.C. COAST: Little activity reported.
17. S.C. COAST: Sheepshead, reds, trout in Calibogue Sound near Hilton Head. Scattered reds, trout in other backwaters, including the Intracoastal Waterway.
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