Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information. Another good turnout last night for the Thursday night trail. We had 54 boats show up to do battle for the top five places. Congratulations to the father/son team of Mark and Zack Leech. What a bag of bass they brought to the scales. 22.82 […]

Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information. Congratulations to the team of Stephen Sparrow and Phillip Carson . They brought five bass to the scale that weighted in at 18.03 pounds. Second place went to the team of Matt Garver and Campbell Whisenant with 17.88 pounds and had the big fish of […]

Lake Russell is at 473.92. Crappie: Good.  Guide Wendell Wilson (706-283-3336) reports that his boat is catching a lot of crappie right now, but they have generally been running a bit on the smaller side. Perhaps the bigger fish are recovering from the spawn. The best pattern for catching numbers of fish has been fishing around shallow […]

Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information: Perfect night for fishing. The air temperature was nice, no rain and a light breeze to keep the bugs away. The fish was not so cooperative. The weights were down on this Thursday night but Steve Addington was able to find five bass that topped […]

Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information. Another good turnout for the Thursday Night Tournament Trail with 44 boats. We had a few passing showers and a lot of pollen blowing around. Congratulations to the team of Chris Marshall and Scott Willis who managed to put together a 5 bass stringer weighing […]

Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information… After the rains cleared, then came Thursday Night. Lake Wylie is like the lake of old, a lot of color and the fishing is awesome. If you like fishing shallow then now is the time to tie on a spinnerbait and start casting. Don’t be […]

A casual observer could make the mistake of thinking that today was an ordinary day of college for University of South Carolina junior Gettys Brannon, an advertising major at USC and one-half of the bass fishing team that also includes Patrick Walters. Gettys had to go to classes, and when he wasn’t in class he […]

Thanks to tournament director Gaston Erwin for results and information: Another Thursday Night in the books and wow at the fish that was brought to the scales. The weather had a big effect on our crowd but the crowd that we had caught the fish. Hopefully this is a sign that Lake Wylie has cycled […]

Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information. __________ The TNTT had another good turnout for the tournament and the fish are biting really good right now. We had more than half the field weighing in fish. The sign up period was interrupted with a brief shower which helped wash away some of […]

Thanks to tournament director Dennis Landrum for results and information. Congratulations to winners Bradley Rhodes and Chris Dorlan with 19.93 pounds.  They also had the big fish at 6.44 pounds. FISH THE FALL ELITE TEAM TRAIL LAKE JOCASSEE 4/4/15 PG 1 PLACE TEAM WEIGHT POINTS 1 ROY STUART JERRY HART 13.74 1161 2 BRADLEY RHODES […]

The first time I went fishing with crappie tournament specialist Will Hinson of Cassatt was a warm-weather trip where we targeted crappie around brush and bridges. There were multiple other boats as well as bank fishermen in the same general areas we fished, and I noticed that we out-caught the other fishermen 10 to 1 […]

Thanks to tournament director Erwin Gaston for results and information… The 2015 season has begun. The TNTT kicked off last night with 41 boats all ready to get started. It has been a long cold winter and it was good to have a pleasant night to get the season started. Congratulations to David Winters and […]

Week 13 saw four open/ tournament trail events reported on SCFishingReport.com; an ABA Weekend Series event on Lake Hartwell, two CATT tournaments (Santee and Wateree), and a BFL NC Division tournament on Lake Wylie. ABA Weekend Series Lake Hartwell The American Bass Anglers Weekend Bass Series had its second event of the season on Hartwell out […]

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 […]

Lake Wateree is at 97.4% of full pool and water temperatures are rising. Catfish: Good. Captain Rodger Taylor (803-517-7828) reports that overall the bite is pretty good on Lake Wateree. While large schools of threadfin and small gizzard shad can be found about halfway back in the major creek arms, the bigger gizzard shad are still […]

Spottail Bass: Fair. Bay Street Outfitters (843-524-5250) in Beaufort reports that weather continues to be a major issue, but that looks to be improving. When they can get out they are mostly sight-casting for fish on lower stages of the tide, and although fish are selective they will generally eat. On fly tackle smaller patterns are […]

Inshore/ Nearshore: Perry’s Bait and Tackle (843-651-2895) in Murrell’s Inlet reports that weather has continued to limit fishing activity, but that looks to be changing this week. The biggest change in the past week has been that bigger weakfish have been caught out at the 3-Mile Reef, mostly on jigs or mullet/ menhaden strip baits. […]

Cherry Grove Pier (843-249-1625) reports that water temperatures remain around 48 degrees, and only a few dogfish, whiting, croaker and sand perch have been caught off the pier.

Lake Marion is at 75.2, about a foot and a half below full pool, and Lake Moultrie is at 75.0, about six inches below full pool. Water temperatures are climbing fast. Crappie: Good. Captain Steve English (843-729-4044) reports that crappie have moved up shallow into the backs of creeks, and they can be caught around […]

Inshore: Haddrell’s Point (843-881-3644) reports that warmer water temperatures have the redfish schools feeding more actively again. Along the shallow mud flats cast a live mud minnow or a Savage Crab to schooling redfish. Sheepshead continue to feed on live fiddler crabs, clams, and oysters fished around bridge pilings and rock piles in 10-20 feet of water, […]

Lake Russell is at 474.15 and surface water temperatures have shot from the low 40s to the mid- to upper-50s in just over a week. Lake Russell is now 60 degrees in the warmest places and about 55 on the main channel. Crappie: Excellent.  Guide Wendell Wilson (706-283-3336) reports that crappie fishing is on fire and fish […]

Lake Murray is at 358.08, and surface water temperatures at the dam are in the low to mid-50s. Further up temperatures as high as the upper 50s have been seen, with temperatures significantly warmer on the north side of the lake than the south side (because of the sun’s angle). White Perch: Excellent. Lake World […]

Lake Greenwood is at 436.36 and water temperatures are climbing. Crappie: Good to very good.  Captain Chris Simpson (864-992-2352) reports that the crappie bite has been strong over the last week and a half. Long-line trolling with jigs seems to be the most consistent fish producer, and most fish are suspending 3-8 feet deep in 10-20 feet […]