Crappie good this week
Crappie action has improved considerably the past few days on the large Piedmont reservoirs, with Lake Norman and Lake Wylie producing especially well.Limit catches of the popular panfish also are being made at Monroe's city lakes.
Generally, the crappie are hitting minnows worked around very shallow brush. Fishing Forecast | Tom Higgins
The Report
1. LAKE NORMAN: Striped bass, moving into the backs of creeks and hitting live baits. Anglers are finding the fish from the surface down to 20 feet. Improving for largemouth bass on lures cast to the shoreline.
2. LAKE WYLIE: Largemouth 8-10 feet deep around boathouses. The Catawba Creek area has been yielding good catches. They're hitting crankbaits, pig-and-jig combinations and soft plastics. White perch 20-24 feet down along the river channel on small jigs, spoons, minnows.
3. LAKES BADIN, TILLERY, BLEWETT FALLS: Limits of crappie, mostly on minnows fished near shallow brush. Improving for largemouth, with skirted spinnerbaits working well.
4. HIGH ROCK LAKE: Crappie on jigs, minnows near shallow brush and around docks. Improving for largemouth on crankbaits, spinnerbaits. Scattered stripers on live baits.
5. LAKES HICKORY, RHODHISS: Much improved at Hickory for crappie on minnows. Rhodhiss continues to yield limits of crappie.
6. LAKE JAMES: Smallmouth bass on shiners, small crankbaits, grubs worked around points. Crappie on minnows.
7. FONTANA LAKE: Smallmouth 20 feet deep off the points on shiners. Spawning walleye at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River on crawlers, dollflies, spoons.
8. LAKE WATEREE: Largemouth around boat docks and main channel points on crankbaits, spinnerbaits. Stripers at the lower end of the lake on live herring, shiners and, when feeding in surfacing schools, on topwater lures. Crappie in the Beaver Creek and Fishing Creek arms.
9. LAKE HARTWELL: Stripers, hybrids in the Martin Creek area and near the Friendship Access Area on gizzard shad, trout. Largemouth on crankbaits. Crappie in brush 10-15 feet deep on minnows.
10. LAKE JOCASSEE: Trout from the surface down to 40 feet on drift-fished herring, minnows and trolled Bad Creek spoons.
11. LAKE KEOWEE: Largemouth around boat docks and in the backs of coves on artificial worms, jerkbaits. Spotted bass near Mile Creek and Gap Hill Landing on reddish artificial worms and black/silver jerk baits.
12. LAKE MURRAY: Largemouth on free-lined liver herring with the best catches being made around secondary points. Pig-and-jig lure combinations are working well, too. Scattered catches of stripers because of windy, rough lake conditions. Crappie around the mouths of creeks on minnows. Plentiful shellcracker along the shoreline on crawlers, earthworms.
13. LAKE THURMOND: Limits of crappie, including some very large fish, from Snap and Pistol Creeks to Landrum. They're hitting jigs tipped with minnows. Largemouth in the backs of creeks and at secondary points on crankbaits, spinnerbaits. Stripers near the dam on live baits and lures trolled 40-50 feet deep.
14. SANTEE-COOPER RESERVOIR: Lake Marion: Lunker largemouth, moving to the shallows, on artificial worms and crankbaits. Catfish on cut bait in shallow water. Large crappie on minnows in the Stump Hole and State Park areas. Scattered stripers in the Wyboo Creek area; Lake Moultrie: Largemouth in 4-5 feet of water on crankbaits. Catfish on cut herring, other oily cut baits worked 8-10 feet deep. Crappie to 3 pounds around shallow brush.
15. OUTER BANKS: Blackfin tuna off Oregon Inlet, Hatteras Village and Morehead City. Parties trolling out of Morehead City also are boating wahoo. Puppy drum in the 25-inch range at Ocracoke Island, but little other surf activity reported.
16. SOUTHEASTERN N.C. COAST: Blackfin tuna, wahoo, grouper offshore. Flounder, reds around docks in the Intracoastal Waterway.
17. S.C. COAST: Little River area: Trout in the Intracoastal Waterway on artificial grubs, shrimp; black seabass and other bottom species offshore. Grand Strand area: Red drum to 30 pounds have been caught at Springmaid Pier; black drum, spottails in the creeks on mullet and mud minnows; good for bottom species offshore. Charleston area: Trout in the creeks north of Charleston on artificial shrimp, dollflies; flounder around the near-shore reefs on traditional baits. Hilton Head area: Lots of spottails, trout on artificials, mud minnows worked on the flats; sheepshead around the near-shore reefs on fiddler crabs; flounder, snapper, seabass around the Betsy Ross wreck offshore.
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