Lake Hartwell is up to 657.99 with water temperatures in the mid-50s some days, and as the lake begins to thaw out the fishing is picking up, too. Feeding activity is still not great but it is headed that way. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair.  Captain Bill Plumley reports that as water temperatures are rising striper fishing […]

Lake Jocassee water levels remain high at 97.1% of full pool; surface temperatures are around 50 degrees but are starting to rise fast. Trout: Good to very good. Jocassee Outdoor Center (864-944-9016) reports that Jocassee trout fishing is about as good as it gets right now, and anglers who know what they are doing are […]

Lake Keowee is at 97.5% of full pool. Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Fair.  Guide Brad Fowler (864-934-5813) reports that with warmer air and water temperatures fish are starting to slide up into a pre-spawn pattern. They are staging around main lake and secondary points, and any time now Brad expects the bass to make a […]

The South Carolina Bass Federation had its second tournament of the season today on the Cooper River, and it appears quite likely that a new state record for a 5-fish tournament limit was set – it certainly represents a new SC Bass Federation tournament record.  Brian Tyler of Johnsonville caught a massive 42.3 pound bag, […]

The Fish the Fall Elite Team Trail had its two-day Lake Murray event on Friday and Saturday (March 6 and 7), and it was a good one.  The father/ son team of Mike and Brian Tidwell won the tournament with a two-day total of 48.33 pounds, including a whopping Day 2 bag weighing 30.79 pounds! […]

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 […]

Catfish: Fair to good.  Captain Chris Simpson (864-992-2352) reports that the big fish bite remains very up and down, with slow to fair fishing one day and then the next day can be very good. The most consistent pattern seems to be anchoring on the deep side of points and humps and fan casting baits […]

Clarks Hill is at 328.94 and water temperatures are around 50 degrees. Black bass: Fair to good. Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that fishing remains pretty strong on Clarks Hill, although the pattern is changing. Fish are starting to move a bit shallower in the morning when they are feeding on bait, and early in the […]

The second Carolinas Bass Challenge – South Carolina Division event of the season is coming up this Saturday on Lake Wateree out of Clearwater Cove. The first event of the year on Lake Murray had 173 boats and 374 anglers competing, with Chris Marshall and Josh Gardner of Rutherford, North Carolina walking home the big winners […]

Week 9 saw six open/ tournament trail events previewed/ reported on SCFishingReport.com, as well as the first week of the “Pick ‘Em” contest on this site.  Results and winning patterns follow: ABA Weekend Series Lake Murray Congratulation to Brock Taylor of Pendleton, winner of the first ABA Weekend Series SC Division event of 2015 on Lake Murray. […]

Congratulation to Brock Taylor of Pendleton, winner of the first ABA Weekend Series SC Division event of 2015 on Lake Murray.  Brock had 19.12 pounds (5 fish). Second place went to Sean Anderson of Leesville with 18.78 pounds (5). Third place went to Todd Pearson of Anderson with 16.28 pounds (5). Fourth place went to Randy C. Huffman […]

Congratulations to Gary Michaud and Doc McDaniel, winner of the second CATT Lake Wateree Spring Qualifier today on Lake Wateree.  They caught 21.92 pounds of bass, including a 5.20 pound big fish, to take first place. Finishing in second place were Mike King and Mike Traynum with a 20.70 pound bag, including a 5.94 pound big fish. […]

Congratulations to Brian and Mike Tidwell, winners of the second South Carolina Upstate Team Division Bass Tournament on Lake Greenwood yesterday.  The winners had an enormous 29.87 pound sack composed of clone 6-pounders! 2nd place went to Paul Gettys and Russell Clark with 22.54 pounds. 3rd place went to Michael Holland and Mike Cox with 20.47 […]

Congratulations to Clay Williams and David Redmon, winners of the second CATT Lake Wylie Spring Tournament yesterday.  They caught a huge Lake Wylie bag of 23.78 pounds, including a 5.75 pound big fish. 2nd place went to Mark Leach with 17.80 pounds. 3rd place went to Todd Garner and Shane Hartman with 14.80 pounds. Because […]

Congratulations to Ronnie Mueller and Wayne Frierson, winners of the first Fishers of Men SC Lowcountry Team Tournament of 2015 on Lake Murray yesterday.  They caught a monster 5-fish bag weighing 27.05 pounds, including a 6.49 pound big fish. 2nd place went to Ross Burns and Josh Rennebaum with 5 fish weighing 18.77 pounds. 3rd place […]

Week 9 has six open/ tournament trail events calendared on SCFishingReport.com, and with crazy weather and tough fishing around the state it should be interesting to see what anglers are able to bring to the scales. For the first time this week we are offering a $20.00 gift certificate for SCFishingTackle.com to the reader who […]

Each week our sister site SCFishingTackle.com will be offering a “Deal of the Week” to allow people to try out a bait they may not be fishing yet, and this week the special is is a sampler 5-pack of Buckeye Lures Football Mop Jigs – including one bait in each color (brown, contusion, fall craw, green […]

On the Wednesday before the Bassmaster Classic, this site interviewed 2014 FLW Forrest Wood Cup Champion Anthony Gagliardi about baits he would be throwing if were fishing the Classic.  Anthony told us his first choice would be the Buckeye Lures Su-Spin Blade, and told us that in the late winter when bass are around bait – either suspended […]

When the FLW Championship came to Lake Murray in the summer of 2014 bass fishing experts from around the country (if not the world) offered their perspective on the Midlands fishery. A lot of it was very good information, and from the tournament we learned some things we didn’t know about Lake Murray – such […]

FLW Tour Professional Anthony Gagliardi, winner of the 2014 Forrest Wood Cup on Lake Murray, doesn’t have to contend with the arctic blast that is greeting anglers this week in the 2015 Bassmaster Classic on Lake Hartwell. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t thinking about how he would fish if he were in the competition. […]

Following the third weekend in January, when several days of air temperatures in the 60s and even 70s had pushed surface temperatures in lakes statewide well above the 50 degree mark, it looked like it might be a short winter and spring might arrive early. At that point it appeared to be too late for […]

Week 7 saw two open/ tournament trail events reported on SCFishingReport.com, a BFL event on Lake Murray and a South Carolina Bass Federation tournament on Lake Hartwell. BFL Lake Murray 90 boats (each with a boater and co-angler) fished the first BFL Savannah River Division event of the 2015 season, and there were more big bags […]

On Saturday, February 14 the first event of the 2015 BFL South Carolina Division season took place on Lake Murray out of Dreher Island State Park. 90 boaters and co-anglers braved freezing conditions early, and fierce winds throughout the day, in search of unpredictable late winter bass. Most anglers described the conditions and the fishing […]