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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
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— In the most recent CATT tournament Saturday on Lake Murray veteran tournament angler Captain Doug Lown reports that bass could be found spawning, which is to be expected considering that water temperatures are in the low to mid-60s. However, Doug believes that the bulk of the fish are still pre-spawn, because even though water […]
— Fresh off a day on the water on Lake Wateree, Captain Rodger Taylor (803-517-7828) rates the bite for catfish as somewhere between very good and excellent. As has been the trend recently, his party today caught a significant number of strong 15-19 pound catfish to go with a “kicker” 33-pound fish (pictured). Rodger says that […]
— Even before the second FLW Tour event of the season got underway Thursday on Lake Hartwell, Guide Brad Fowler predicated that sight-fishing would play a very significant role in the tournament. Brad estimated that by Thursday about 50% of the fish were actively bedding, while another 50% were still pre-spawn. With the weather Lake […]
In his last fishing report Guide Rob McComas (828-674-5041) discussed how the contours of Lake Jocassee (a deep, somewhat-bowl shaped lake) and the laws of physics mean that it is slow to cool in the winter – and slow to warm in the spring. Compared to the amount of water the lake holds, there is […]
— For anglers who define spring not based on a calendar but as the time when crappie spawn, there can be doubt that spring has arrived on Clarks Hill! Captain William Sasser (864-333-2000) reports that almost all of the fish have moved up shallow, and in the backs of coves crappie are spawning and eating […]
— In the last couple of weeks Clarks Hill water temperatures have skyrocketed, and as a result Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that significant numbers of male fish have started moving up onto points and getting ready for the spawn. The next stage for these fish will be moving into pockets, and if the water temperatures […]
Tournament crappie angler Will Hinson of Cassatt, SC and his tournament partner Tommy Slice of Chapin, SC are fresh off a victory in the 80-boat national Crappie USA Super Event on Clarks Hill, in which they weighed in a whopping 29.81 pounds (14 fish, 2+ pound average) over two days. They are also coming off […]
After spending a week on Santee Cooper practicing for and then fishing in the Costa FLW Series event, it was understandable that tournament angler Dearal Rodgers of Camden started out fishing the CATT event on Lake Wateree Saturday by looking for fish that had moved up shallow. In the Costa tournament Dearal had spent his […]
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For a few weeks each year crappie guiding dominates business for Guide Wendell Wilson (706-283-3336) and Guide Jerry Kotal (706-988-0860), and that time is now! Wendell is fishing for crappie up shallow around the banks in 3-4 feet of water, and using a float with a minnow 18 inches below it his boat is catching […]
Typically the bass spawn on Lake Wylie is at its peak during April, but this is no ordinary year. Whereas it is normal to get several warm days in March, or even 4 or 5 warm days, it is highly unusual to get a couple of straight weeks where temperatures are in the 70s and […]
— Catastrophic rains and recurrent flooding often made for a rough fall and early winter for Lake Murray fishermen, but probably nobody had it worse than crappie anglers. The first round of flooding in October eventually caused SCE&G to open the floodgates, and this caused the current to suck away much of the brush they […]
— Lake Murray bass were late getting into a winter pattern this year, and according to veteran tournament angler Captain Doug Lown it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that fish started setting up the way they typically do in the winter. However, anglers would have been unwise to expect that to last very long […]
Note: Content on these pages, including tournament reports and fishing reports, is generally available only to customers of the Angler’s Headquarters online fishing tackle store. Any purchase (no minimum value) gives readers full access to all information on this site for 90 days. In the understatement of the year, Steve Harmon sums up his […]
— If anyone tells you that they predicted that the biggest bass caught last weekend in a South Carolina tournament would come off of Lake Keowee, they are probably lying! But that is apparently exactly what happened. In the ABA Ram Trucks Open Series tournament on Lake Keowee Saturday a 9.67 pound largemouth was caught […]
— As should be expected with seasonal changes underway, Santee Cooper catfish are starting to move into shallow water in greater numbers. Captain Jim Glenn (843-825-4239) points out that blue catfish will move shallow at times even in the dead of winter, and he has caught fish in 6 feet of water on 18 degree mornings. […]
— For the last week or two Captain Steve English (843-729-4044) reports that his boat has been catching some crappie in the shallows, and when this pattern first started that meant that there were a couple of shallow spots where they could find fish. Naturally these were some of the first places to warm, and […]
— The March 5 Carolinas Bass Challenge Santee Cooper tournament is in the books, and Santee Cooper bass fishing is living up to its reputation – in all respects. Plenty of big fish highlighted the tournament, with two fish over 9 pounds being caught (including a 9.53 pound beast), and a 32.55 pound sack at […]
— With the warm weather predicted for the next couple of weeks in South Carolina, bass around the state should be moving shallower and into the spawning period. But tournament bass fisherman Andy Wicker of Pomaria says that because of the warm water discharge on the lake, this period often comes earlier on Lake Monticello […]
— Last year at this time Lake Greenwood was giving up 27+ pound bags, but that feat was not to be repeated this past Saturday. Six months of rain and a cold late winter had Lake Greenwood cold and muddy for the tournament Saturday, but in some tough conditions Jerry Kotal (our customary Lake Russell […]
— Until recently there haven’t been a whole lot of pleasant weather days to target redfish in the Hilton Head area, but Captain Dan “Fishin’ Coach” Utley (843-368-2126) reports that when conditions have been good enough to get out the fishing has been strong. Redfish are grouped up in their big wintertime schools, and on higher […]
IMPORTANT site changes coming. Effective March 1 only customers of the Angler’s Headquarters online tackle store will have access to our fishing reports. Read more here. For a lot of anglers catching bass on Clarks Hill has been no problem, but getting big bites has been an issue. In the BFL Saturday a week ago […]