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 fromthe 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
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Lake Keowee is at 98.8% of full pool.The difference in water temperatures on the lake is at the biggest margin of the year. On the south end, water temperatures are still in the low to mid 50s while mid-lake temperatures are now in the low 60s. The north end of the lake is in between these two ranges.
Santee Cooper water levels are at 76.36 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.01 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5).The whole system is muddy, and water temperatures have dropped into the low 50s.
When bass are able to move away from extremely dirty water that is often what they will do, but when there is no clean water to be found they have no choice but to get used to it.And figuring out how to adapt to the mud is exactly what Captain Brett Mitchell (803-379-7029) reports
Lake Wateree is all the way down to 97.3% of full pool, but the water is still orange muddy even though you can now put a boat in.Water temperatures are in the low 50s.
The last couple of CATT tournaments have had to be canceled due to water conditions, but tournament bass angler Dearal Rodgers of Camden reports
Lake Wylie is down to 98.5% of full pool, and water temperatures range from about 51-54 degrees. Although the lake is still muddy the northern end is just starting to settle out.
Water conditions are beginning to improve on Lake Wylie, but tournament bass angler Reid McGinn of Fort Mill reports
Inshore surface water temperatures around Hilton Head range from about 56-59, and on days when there has been no recent wind or rain clarity is very good.
Water temperatures are up to about 55 degrees in Murrells Inlet, and clarity depends on weather conditions.Rain yesterday made for dirty water, but after a day of dry, calm weather it gets very clear again.
Baisch Boys Bait and Tackle (843-651-1915) has regular and jumbo mud minnows, live finger mullet, live fiddler crabs, fresh shrimp, salt clam, and a full range of frozen baits.
It is still that time of year when inshore species do not have to eat every single day on the Grand Strand, and Captain J Baisch (843-902-0356) reports
Lake Greenwood water levels are at 438.61 (full pool is 440.0) and surface water temperatures are in the lower 50s. The lake is still muddy from one end to the other, and even the water coming out of the dam is red muddy.
Lake Greenwood is still as muddy as veteran tournament bass angler Stan Gunter of Saluda has ever seen it,
Clarks Hill water levels are well about full pool at 332.63 (full pool is 330.00), which is actually down almost a foot and a half in the last week.There is no clear water anywhere on the lake – it is just a matter of how stained it is.The middle of the channel is muddy and full of debris, logs, broken away docks, staircases, and even lawn chairs.In many cases the backs of creeks are actually cleaner.Water temperatures range from the low to mid-50s.
Even though water conditions are – to put it mildly – unusual, tournament angler Tyler Matthews of Evans, GA reports
Lake Hartwell water levels are still a couple of feet above full pool at 662.21 (full pool is 660.00), and water temperatures are around 52-54 degrees. All of the major creeks are muddy with trash and logs floating, but the main lake towards the dam is not as dirty.Some boat landings are closed and you still need rubber boats to walk on many stationary docks.
Lake Murray water levels are at 357.64 (full pool is 360.00), and surface water temperatures range are around 52 degrees at the dam. From the rivers down to Dreher Island there is red mud with trash and logs floating, and visibility is only about 6 inches at the mouth of Bear Creek. There is some clearer water closer to the dam as well as back in some creeks.
There is really no consistent pattern for Lake Murray bass right now, and veteran angler Captain Doug Lown reports
Inshore surface water temperatures in Charleston are around 55 degrees, and even though the water is generally fairly clear with all the freshwater inflow salinity is very low in the rivers.
If anything the redfish bite has gotten even tougher, and the guides at Redfin Charters (843-277-5255) report
Lake Russell water levels are even further above full pool at 479.33 (full pool is 475.00).Except for the inflow from Lake Hartwell, the whole lake is stained as far down as the dam, and the backs are muddy.Water temperatures are around 53 degrees.
Lake Keowee is at 98.8% of full pool.Water temperatures have fallen in the past few days with cold rain and temperatures in the area. On the south end of the lake, temperatures are around 55. Mid-lake the temperature is around 60-61, and the northern end is around 57.
Lake Murray water levels have stabilized at about 357.12 (full pool is 360.00), and surface water temperatures range from about 53 on the lower lake to the upper-40s up the lake.The lake ranges from muddy to stained.
Despite the muddy conditions this weekend a good number of striped bass were caught up the river on Lake Murray, and Captain Brad Taylor (803-331-1354)
Santee Cooper water levels are at 76.39 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.73 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5).Surface temperatures in the lower lake are around 55 degrees, but with so much inflow the upper lake is running closer to 50.The whole system is muddy, and even though some areas are slightly cleaner it is generally not much.
To say that the Santee Cooper lakes are muddy is really an understatement, and Captain Brett Mitchell (803-379-7029) reports
Lake Russell water levels are way above full pool at 478.33 (full pool is 475.00) and docks and walkways are under water.Even though the main channel is clearing up with so much water pulled through, Guide Wendell Wilson (706-283-3336) reports
Inshore surface water temperatures are around 57 degrees, and while clarity is high overall in the Harbor River and Broad River, north of the Broad River Bridge it gets fairly tannic (due to recent rainfall).
Fishing conditions have been a little tricky for redfish, and Bay Street Outfitters (843-524-5250) reports
Clarks Hill water levels have shot way up to 333.10 (full pool is 330.00), and even though there are reports that the Corps will soon open the floodgates for now people’s docks and walkways are under water.There just haven’t been a lot of places to send the water without flooding the downstream areas.The backs of all the creeks are extremely muddy, and while the lower end is clearing a bit it looks like more freshwater and therefore mud is coming. There is a ton of debris floating and surface temperatures range from about 52-53 degrees.
Unusual water conditions are forcing anglers away from traditional winter patterns, but tournament angler Tyler Matthews of Evans, GA reports
