AHQ Report - Edisto Island
Clark's Hill Fishing Reports
Lake Greenwood is located near the towns of Greenwood and Ninety Six, about an hour to the northwest of Columbia and around forty-five minutes to the southeast of Greenville. The waters of the Saluda and Reedy Rivers come from the northwest and feed into Lake Greenwood, which was created between 1935 and 1940 with the construction of Buzzard’s Roost Dam.
Lake Greenwood has 212 miles of shoreline and 11,400 surface acres of water, and today it is owned by Greenwood County. A relatively shallow lake, Lake Greenwood averages 18 feet deep and is 60 feet deep at its deepest point. The Greenwood County Lake Management Department controls permitting, camping, upkeep and maintenance on the lake, and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources helps to manage the fishery resource.
Fishermen target Lake Greenwood’s healthy populations of largemouth and now spotted bass, black and white crappie, bream and catfish, and channel and flathead catfish. DNR also stocks striped bass in the lake, although not in the quantities which they put into Lake Murray, Clarks Hill and other major striper fisheries. White bass are also present in Greenwood, although they are increasingly being displaced by the white perch population. The most significant forage fish on Lake Greenwood are threadfin and gizzard shad. Read More
The best inshore fishing of the year often takes place in the fall, and so far this October has lived up to expectations. Captain Ron Davis, Jr. (803-513-0143) reports that fishing around Edisto Island has been wide open over the last week, and even though huge tides and weather may slow things down a bit […]
While the numbers of redfish out on the flats around Edisto Island still aren’t what they have been in past years, Captain Ron Davis, Jr. (803-513-0143) reports that overall fishing for spottails is pretty good – particularly in the creeks. Large numbers of 12-14 inch fish are being caught, pretty good numbers of slot-sized fish […]
Last month Captain Ron Davis, Jr. (803-513-0143) reported that inshore fishing for redfish and trout was off, but this month he is pleased to report that there has been improvement. He now rates the redfish bite as “good” and says that on the flats redfish can be caught fishing live shrimp about 18 inches under […]
While fish can still be caught inshore around Edisto Island, Captain Ron Davis, Jr. (803-513-0143) reports that right now the trout and spottail bass (redfish) fishery just isn’t where it was a few years ago. It’s unclear why but the redfish numbers aren’t as good as they used to be, particularly out on the flats. […]
Thanks to Ron Davis, inventor of The Chatterbait, for this inshore report. Sheepshead: Very good. The sheepshead bite is very good around docks at low tide in 5-15 feet of water. Bits of clams, oysters, and mussels are the top baits. Spottail Bass: Good. The redfish bite has picked up on the flats. Mud minnows […]
Thanks to Ron Davis, inventor of The Chatterbait, for this inshore report. Ron reports that for now the bite remains unchanged from a week ago, but if warm temperatures stay then things will surely pick up soon. Spottail Bass: Fair. Redfish remain in winter mode, and with cold water temperatures they are in even tighter […]
Ron Davis has been fishing around the Edisto Island area for 18 years, but he only considers the last 3 to have been productive. The first time that Ron ever fished Edisto he was visiting his wife’s parents who had a second home on the island, and he headed up a creek and had a […]