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 Monticello surface water temperatures are around 80 degrees and the lake is clear. Water levels fluctuate daily.
Every now and then it’s good to have confirmation you are talking to the right people, and just this weekend tournament angler Andy Wicker of Pomaria gave that confirmation when he and his brother won the CATT event on Lake Monticello with a 20-pound sack of bass.
Inshore surface water temperatures around Little River have risen fast to 75 degrees and above.While there is debris in the rivers the water coming from the ocean is starting to return to a clear, bright blue.They are finally starting to get small shrimp big enough to use for bait in cast nets.
Lake Wateree is pretty low at 96.8% of full pool and clarity is high for Wateree.Morning surface water temperatures have just hit 80 degrees.
Anyone expecting to find an easy bass fishing bite on Lake Wateree this Memorial Day weekend is likely to be disappointed, and tournament angler Dearal Rodgers of Camden reports
Lake Keowee is at 98.4% of full pool and clarity is normal.Water temperatures have risen rapidly over the past week with mid to upper 70s present in most areas and low 70s near the Jocassee dam.
Lake Wylie is at 96.4% of full pool and the lake is fairly clear.Morning surface water temperatures are in the low to mid-70s.
It took all spring, but in this post-spawn period the bass fishing on Lake Wylie seems to be improving.In recent tournaments plenty of bags in the teens have been weighed in, and tournament angler Reid McGinn of Fort Mill reports
Lake Russell water levels are down to 474.67 (full pool is 475.00) but the lake remains very clear.Morning surface water temperatures are around 72-73 degrees.
It is still a very good time for bass fishing on Lake Russell, and Guide Jerry Kotal (706-988-0860) reports
Inshore surface water temperatures around Edisto Island are still about 72-74 degrees and water clarity is very good – far above normal for this season – in both rivers.
Things remain really positive for the trout fishing around Edisto, and Captain Ron Davis, Jr. (843-513-0143) reports
Lake Hartwell water levels are very high at 661.52 (full pool is 660.00) but the lake remains clear.Morning surface water temperatures are in the low 70s.
There’s no way around the fact that the bass fishing is still very tough on Lake Hartwell, and Guide Brad Fowler still
Morning surface water temperatures remain in the low to mid-70s inshore around Hilton Head.
A cold front and then strong winds from the East bringing cooler offshore water have kept temperatures down around Hilton Head, and Captain Kai Williams (843-816-7475) reports
Morning surface water temperatures are in the low to mid-70s around Murrells Inlet.
Baisch Boys Bait and Tackle (843-651-1915) has regular and jumbo mud minnows, fiddler crabs, live sand fleas, blood worms, fresh shrimp, and a full range of frozen baits.Very soon they will have live shrimp.
There’s been some dramatic improvement in the fishing around Murrells Inlet over the last two weeks, and Captain Jay Baisch reports
Lake Jocassee is at 95.8% of full pool and the lake is clear.Morning surface water temperatures are still only in the mid-60s but that should change soon.
It’s a really good trout bite on Lake Jocassee, and Guide Sam Jones (864-280-9056) reports
Lake Murray water levels are at 358.06 (full pool is 360.00) and the water is clearing again after last week’s rains.Surface water temperatures in the morning are around 72-73 degrees.
There are already some early signs of striped bass moving deeper on Lake Murray, and this week Captain Brad Taylor (803-331-1354) has
Clarks Hill water levels are still very high at 331.24 (full pool is 330.00) and the lake is pretty clear for the most part.Morning surface water temperatures are up to 73-74 degrees.
Almost overnight the water temperatures shot up several degrees, and literally overnight William Sasser Guide Service (706-589-5468) reports that the pattern for catching hybrid and striped bass changed
