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South Carolina
June

Hartwell
Posted by Nick Jackson on June 30, 2002
I fished Fri. night, started out at the mouth of 18 mile creek anchored in 55 ft. of water.
fished there till about 1 am, caught one striper about 1 pound and a gar. Had plenty of bait
up but no action with the fish. Decided to try the I-85 bridge over 23 mlie creek. I had never
fished there at night and heard it was a good place to catch crappie and hybrids.
We caught 2 small crappie and two pretty good channel cats, but no linesided fish. It may be
a little too late in the year to find any hybrids or stripers up that far, I don't know. I haven't really
been having much luck in the areas I have been trying, so I tried something a little
different. Anybody else do any good this weekend? Nick

Hartwell
Posted by Preston on June 30, 2002
fished 24 bridge on Seneca River saturday night plenty bait caught 6 small stripers
about 1 lb size only 1 keeper about 5 lb guess it is time to go to deeper water good fishing to all

Murray
Posted by Flat Out on June 30, 2002
Fished from 6pm Friday night to 3am, took a nap at the landing, then back on the lake from
5:30 - 12pm on Saturday..Caught a ton of fish Friday night from 10pm - 1am anchored on some
 humps outside Jakes cove..Best method proved to be suspended down lines below the drawn up bait.
.No fish on cut bait but I feel that was my inexperience.. Saturday, we caught 2 fish right away
on lead-core then nothing (floating grass was horrible in deeper water and water under
24ft was solid grass up to 5 ft)..Changed to down lines and freelines and got on them pretty
good around Putmans..Overall, we caught somwhere in the neighborhood of 50-60ft with most
being at or around 21 inches..Biggest fish was around 9lbs..Kept a few for dinner and released the rest..
We only had 2 floaters but they took off after a few minutes of swimming cirles on top (undersized or
we would have kep them also)..see you fellows down at the hill in 1 month..
Brent

Murray
Posted by Larry Thompson on June 30, 2002
I fish almost exclusivly at night on Lake Murray [Fri. most every weekend] in the spring and summer
and have found out that 4:00 AM is almost like setting a clock on Lake Murray, no matter what --> moon phase,
wind or rain. You want to be in position with baits out at 4:00 AM. From then till around 10:30 AM strap on
the roller skates because they will be biting from all directions and the drags sinning in harmony, numerious
2-3-4 at a time hook ups.
Larry Thompson

SUBJECT: Clarkshill
Submitted by Sam h. from NORTH CAROLINA on 6/24/02
Capt. Toby and I had a long day at the Hill. From 7:00am till 2:00pm not one bite!!!!!!!!!
Was heading to the landing and discussing stopping at Murray for the rest of the day when the
350A lit up. Caught 15-20 fish real quick with some real nice hybes in the mix!! Then they were gone!
No 30's but we'll get them next time. Capt. Toby's top on that beautiful LUND sure kept us dry
because the HILL got real wet and of course WINDY at times!! Later , "OLE 68"
 
 

June 24, 2002
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, casting to schools with Super Flukes over humps and points.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Slow. Try bucktails, cut bait and jigs below the dam.

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, fishing with large minnows and cut bait, and trolling with deep-running Rapalas and Rebels.

LAKE WYLIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, below Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running.

LAKE GREENWOOD:
Striped Bass:
Good, casting flukes and topwater plugs behind the dam.

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Excellent, casting shad-like topwater lures and chuggers. Schooling on lower end of lake early and lake.

LAKE MURRAY:
Striped Bass:
Good, using live herring on down-rods 30 -60 feet deep and some free-lining. Schooling early morning.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try casting bucktails to schooling fish or fishing cut bait or shiners off the bottom.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Fair, using live herring and trolling Stretch 20s between Navy Point and Bonneau.

Subject: marion, South Carolina
Submitted by freddie
Date Fished: 6/22/02
Water Clarity: 1 foot
fished out of alex harvin landing saturday with partner. we started fishing right from the launch
since i'm still shopping around for a good pre-owned outboard. mine is shot!!!! But the trolling
motor works like a champ. we trolled and fished from the landing all the way to the first cove on
the left after the power lines. we ended up with 6 fish, 3 keepers. all fish were caught on red-shad worms
u tail, and redbug trick worms 7". i hooked up with 2 nice stripers on a spinner bait in 2 feet of water.
my partner lost one trophy largemouth on redshad in about 5 feet. in all it was a good day, the trolling motor
 held up and the rain held off.

Subject: Wateree/Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Charlie P.
Date Fished: 6/15/02
Water Clarity: 0
Sorry this is a little late. Fished the BFL at Wateree and claimed my first ZERO in the tourney.
Caught 5 shorts and had a real nice fished hooked up but it came up and threw the spinner bait.
It was at least a 5 lbr. I wanted to puke! That might cost me the regional as I droped from 18th to
42nd in the points. Stayed the following week at Lake Murray and caught a FEW largemouth but
we did get on some good stripers.

Subject:     Hartwell Report
Date:         Wed, 19 Jun 2002
From:       JustAFishinFool@aol.com
Well guys, fished the area of the two rivers again. Saturday June 15th. Clarity around 4-5 ft. water temp about
76 degrees 20ft down. Fishing in 38 ft of water surrounded by deep except one side. Caught 1 small striper
during night, THEN, in the AM, caught 5 hybrids 4-5lb range and 1 10lb striper on Zebco 33. BUT! My 5500
and 6500 ambassadors and 7 ft rods could not manage 2 hogs that took me into trees and 1 about 20lbs that
I got up but he shook hook out of his mouth. Maybe next time huh?
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June 17, 2002
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, casting to schools with Super Flukes over humps and points.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Slow. Try bucktails, cut bait and jigs below the dam.

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, fishing with large minnows and cut bait, and trolling with deep-running Rapalas and Rebels.

LAKE WYLIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, below Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running.

LAKE GREENWOOD:
Striped Bass:
Good, casting flukes and topwater plugs behind the dam.

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Excellent, using live shad fishing just off bottom in the river channel 15 to 25 feet and at Cedar Creek dam. Limits being caught.
Schooling from dam to dam.

LAKE MURRAY:
Striped Bass:
Good, using live herring on down-rods 30 -60 feet deep and some free-lining.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try casting bucktails to schooling fish or fishing cut bait or shiners off the bottom.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Fair, using live herring and trolling Stretch 20s between Navy Point and Bonneau.

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June 10, 2002
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, casting to schools with Super Flukes over humps and points.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Slow. Try bucktails, cut bait and jigs below the dam.

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, fishing with large minnows and cut bait, and trolling with deep-running Rapalas and Rebels.

LAKE WYLIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, below Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running.

LAKE GREENWOOD:
Striped Bass:
Good, casting flukes and topwater plugs behind the dam.

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Excellent, using live shad fishing just off bottom in the river channel 15 to 25 feet and at Cedar Creek dam.
Limits being caught. Schooling from dam to dam.

LAKE MURRAY:
Striped Bass:
Good, using live herring on down-rods 30 -60 feet deep and some free-lining.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try casting bucktails to schooling fish or fishing cut bait or shiners off the bottom.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try live herring 25-30 feet deep near power plant. Some caught on
trolling deep running lures out in the lake.
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Subject: Wateree, South Carolina
   Date:  Sun, 9 Jun 2002
>From Burney
Fished on 6-8-02
Have you ever started a day when nothing goes right?, got up at 3:30am to go
to Murrey but the wind in Charlotte was already 15mph and gusting so I
decided to fish Wateree instead. I stoped in Rockhill to eat the grill was
down at Waffel house and Mickey Dees wasent surving till 5:00 so I waited,
went to charlies and got some real nice hearing and then decided to put in at
clearwater marina whitch I,ve never been there before needles to say I spent
an extra 45min trying to find and when I did get there they were having a
huge bass tourney and it was packed, but after all this I caught 16 stripers
from 18" to 24". The bait would die if you put it down so I free lined, the
stripers and baitfish were at 12 to 15' in 20 to 45' of water had alot of
short hits but the stinger hook put an end to that, I caught more fish on
Flukes and Bomber long A (clear flash) fished fast and irratic than live
bait. The stripers were near the dam and were caught from 10:00am to 3:00pm.
(Point) fish hard, stay focused, be open to options and remember someone on
the lake is catching fish.

Wateree
Date Fished: 6/6/02
Water Temperature: 83
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet
Took a friend up to Wateree for about 2 hours worth of fishing. We had limited success he
caught one that weighed 3.2 on a Pop-R. I lost one at the boat on a Jig that was about 2 lbs.
Not as much action as I would have thought but had a great visit with an old friend. We did see
lots of boats chasing striper schools on the lower lake.

Subject: Lake Hartwell Report
Date:  Tue, 4 Jun 2002
From:  JustAFishinFool@aol.com
Caught about 12 hybrid Saturday, June 1st. Most were small about 1 to 1 1/2 each on live 4" bait
downlined beside boat. 1 Striper was caught about 4lbs on live herring in the A.M. on bottom. 2
Largemouth,  5 to 6lbs, probally schooling, caught under a cork 3 ft deep with live herring in 30ft of water.
Water temp was around 70degrees about 20ft down and about 6 ft clarity. Steady breeze most of night.
Caught on a hump a little ways from the 2 rivers meeting and the dam. Plenty of good bait.
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June 3, 2002
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, casting to schools with Super Flukes over humps and points.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Slow. Try bucktails, cut bait and jigs below the dam.

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped and Hybrid Bass:
Good, casting jigs, Glass Shad and Cleos and still fishing with large minnows.

LAKE WYLIE
Striped Bass:
Good, below Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons when water is running.

LAKE GREENWOOD
Striped Bass:
Good, casting flukes and topwater plugs behind the dam.

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Excellent, using live shad fishing just off bottom in the river channel 15 to 25 feet and at
Cedar Creek dam. Limits being caught.

LAKE MURRAY
Striped Bass:
Good, Carolina rigging live bait 30-60 feet straight down and fishing schools topwater
with Pencil Poppers early.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try casting bucktails to schooling fish or fishing cut bait off the bottom.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Fair, using topwater lures in early morning along the east dike.

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Subject: Lake Wateree, South Carolina
Submitted by Stickem
Date Fished: 6/1/02
Water Temperature: 83
Water Clarity: 1 foot
Fished Wateree over the weekend and had a pretty good day. Ended up with 10 keepers,2 short ones
and one fiest little striper. All released to be caught another day. Biggest was around 4.0 lbs...best
5 would have went around 12lbs Most fish caught in one area on a variety of baits. Top water,
crankbaits, and c-rig.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Smoakin'
Date Fished: 6/30/01
Water Clarity: 0
Fished Saturday from 7am to noon for stripers around lower lake. Marked fish all morning and saw some
schooling--did not have a bite. Water looked green so I guess all the fresh water and the falling barometer
had affected the fish. Did talk with one person who fished all morning with 2 small fish caught in shallow water.

SUBJECT: Lake Murray
Submitted by Lizard from SOUTH CAROLINA
Fished Murray Sunday night to Monday morning. The wind was terrible all night long. Tied up
behind towers to get out of the wind. Had a big fish break off and drew up a lot of herring with the lights.
 Managed a small one later and then moved up to a creek above the sailing club and caught 1 more, about 3 lbs.
Was really tough with the white capping on the lake. Report from the bait guys was the fishing is very good all
over in 40 to 120 feet of water and fish free lines over the grass beds and some schooling activity in the mornings.
Hope to go try them again before too long. Screamin drag everyone!!!!

SUBJECT: hartwell
Submitted by skiffman1980
I took a couple of police officers on a trip today we did pretty well i guess ended up with 14 fish only 1 2000
model the rest were good solid fish 3-22lbs the fish were mostly caught on downlined herring within sight of the
dam did anchor and fish both live and cut-bait picked up 3 or 4 this way also several channel cats
tightlines, David

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June 25, 2001
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS
Written by Dawn Mills Campbell –

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try live lining blue-back herring.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped Bass:
Good, using cut bait and bucktails or trolling jigs in the lakes.

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped Bass:
Good, using Roadrunners, large jigs, trailing with silver spoons or trolling with Berry spoons.

LAKE WYLIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, below the Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons

LAKE GREENWOOD:
Striped Bass
 Good, using topwater plugs or small spinners in schools. Use live bait or jigs for the stripers.

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Good on the lower end of the lake trolling with shad-like plugs.

LAKE MURRAY:
Striped Bass:
Good, using live and cut herring from 40 to 100 feet of water. Deep trolling is also producing good catches.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Good, drifting with Rebels or using blue back herring.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Excellent, using topwater plugs in schools or spoons or live herring in deeper areas.

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SUBJECT: Hartwell
Submitted by skiffman1980 from GEORGIA on 6/19/01
Fished down below sadlers creek last night anchored in 47 feet and caught fish both under the lights and
throwing up in the shallower water water temp is up and the fish should start to bunch up over the real deep
water in the trees soon!! David www.hartwellstripers.com

SUBJECT: Hartwell
Submitted by skiffman1980 from GEORGIA on 6/19/01
I just got back from a stormy week at santee-cooper and headed back to the lake not to bad cuaght 22 fish
anywhere from1lb to 8lb fished in 35feet had alot of short strikes going back tonight good luck and please
practice catch and release when possible David Daves Guide Service

June 18, 2001
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS
Written by Dawn Mills Campbell

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try live lining blue-back herring.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped Bass:
Good, using bcut bait and bucktails or trolling jigs in the lakes..

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped Bass:
Good, using Roadrunners, large jigs, trailing with silver spoons or trolling with Berry spoons..

LAKE WYLIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, below the Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons.

LAKE GREENWOOD:
Striped Bass:
Good, using topwater plugs or small spinners in schools. Uselive bait or jigs for the stripers..

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Good on the lower end of the lake trolling with shad-like plugs.

LAKE MURRAY:
Striped Bass:
Good, using live and cut herring from 40 to
100 feet of water. Deep trolling is also producing good catches.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Good, drifting with Rebels or using blue back herring.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Good,schooling, using live herring, trolling with a Stretch 25 lure or casting a topwater lure like the Striper Delight.

SUBJECT: Wateree
Submitted by ROKFISHIN from NORTH CAROLINA on 6/17/01
Fished my usual spots near the dam today and marked plenty of fish, but couldn't get them to bite.
I heard of some fish being caught very early but didn't see any other boats with fish. Guess that's why they call
it fishing and not catching. We'll try again next Saturday.

Subject: Clarks Hill, South Carolina
Submitted by Strider
Date Fished: 6/16/01
Water Clarity: 0
I fished the northern point of the first SC cove up from the dam (baitcove)in 40ft. Set anchors at dusk and
fished until 2. Caught 5 stripers 2-4 lbs and lost as many on light strikes and slow reflexes. The stars were distracting.
Fish were between 25-35 ft. Bait was live bluebacks, 4-6". Submerged light attracted small threadfin shad
and a wolfpack of gar. Another fine baitcove night.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Glg
Date Fished: 6/16/01
Water Temperature: 81
Water Clarity: 0
Fished Sat. afternoon 2 Lm (big lm was 4.5 lbs. 20 inches) and 3 Stripes, chasing bait in a cove .
Big Stripe was 24 inches about 6 lbs. DNR has lifted the 21 inch limit on Stripes for June,July and August.
Still 5 fish per angler per day.  Fish hard, be safe

Subject: Hartwell, South Carolina
Submitted by Bassmare
Date Fished: 6/11/01
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet
Got out at 6 this morning and fished until around 12pm. Me, James, and Julian all hopped in to the
boat and went down to Andersonville Island where I had found some schooling largemouth and striper on a
previous trip. As I was letting down the trolling motor at 6:15 the lake turned over and yes I mean with fish.
Immediately Julian hooked up with a nice 4 pound striper on a Sammy, I then threw my deep little N out
behind the striper he was bringing in and that is when a 20" largemouth annihalated my
gellcoat. We caught several more schoolies with a striper and largemouth mixed bag but as soon as the sun
peaked good the fun was over.

At 8am we headed up to 6 and 20 creek to do a little spinnerbait and jig fishing around brushy docks.
I was flipping a Bass Stalker and Julian and James were using a M & N jig. Needless to say I caught 3 to
their 1 on the bass stalker. Fish were inactive and I could not get them to chase a bushwhacker or buzzbait much.

I had something strange happen to me today. I was in progress flippin a row of docks that had yielded nice
bass in the past and I flipped the dark pumpkin Bass Stalker in next to the back of the dock. When
I engaged the reel I couldn't feel my jig, much like I had cut my line on something. I cranked the handle hard a
few times in mast confusion only to find out that a bass had gotten my
jig and ran under my boat and out to deep water in that short of time.. go figure--$$Bassmare$$
 

FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS
Written by Dawn Mills Campbell
June 11, 2001

LAKE HARTWELL:
Striped Bass:
Slow. Try live lining blue-back herring.

LAKE RUSSELL:
Striped Bass:
Good, usingcut bait and bucktails or trolling jigs in the lakes.

LAKE THURMOND:
Striped Bass:
Good, using Roadrunners, large jigs, trailing with silver spoons or trolling with Berry spoons.

LAKE WYLIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, below the Wylie dam using bucktails, jigs and spoons.

LAKE GREENWOOD:
Striped Bass:
Good, using topwater plugs in schools.

LAKE WATEREE:
Striped bass:
Good on the lower end of the lake trolling with shad-like plugs.

LAKE MURRAY:
Striped Bass:
Good, using herring.

LAKE MARION:
Striped Bass:
Good, using herring.

LAKE MOULTRIE:
Striped Bass:
Good, schooling, using live herring, trolling with a Stretch 25 lure or
casting a topwater lure like the Striper Delight.
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Wateree
6/5/2001 Greg S from NORTH CAROLINA
I Fished Sunday. No stripes, one 10lb cat. Had a hard time getting bait, by the time we got down
the lake it was blowing 15 knts. I started in Dutchman's creek for bait with marginal success.
Then ran down the lake to between the dam and lakeside. I marked the fish in 40-50 ft suspended
around 24 ft as you mentioned.  GregS

Subject:    Lake Wateree, SC
Date:        Sun, 3 Jun 2001
Submitted by ROKFISHIN
Date fished:  Saturday, June 2
Got to the lake around 8am and had to hunt for bait. Finally got enough 8 to 12 inch gizzards and headed
out to fight the wind. The bite was very slow compared to last week but still managed 16 between me
and my son. The fish were more spread out, but still in the 38' to 50' water suspended around 24'.
Average fish was a good bit smaller than last week.  We were drifting a point and had 2 fish on when
I noticed a pontoon heading up the lake. He saw us and pulled up to see what was going on. After we
boated the fish and baited up, I turned around to make another pass and that :>@&%$# was
anchored on the point. On the way by I asked him if I was in his way and wanted to make sure that I wasn't
bothering him. He didn't get the hint. Some people's kids!  Am I the only one fishing Wateree??
Keith

SUBJECT: Hartwell
Submitted by skiffman1980
We tried some day fishing with cut-bait with some sucess although the pleasure boaters made it tough!!
Managed some nice fish which made it very worthwhile one hybrid wieghed in at 15lbs boy he was fat I think
I will try some more of this during the day this week as it seems you don't catch the numbers you do at night
but the Quality sure makes up for it!! these fish are hard fighters good fishing
Daves Guide Service www.hartwellstripers.com

6/28/2000  (Lake Murray)
If you put in at the dam, Just head straight up the lake. You will pass 2 islands on your left that are relatively
close together and the next island is "Bomb island". You should see plenty of boats in the area. The Stripers have
started to hit. Much success has been had fishing 60-70 ft. deep with live herring (60-140 feet of water). Some
success with cut bait on bottom. Most folks find the fish then anchor off. You will need plenty of rope. All the best
-- Tbob

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by bassman
Date Fished: 6/25/2000
Water Temperature: 80
Water Clarity: 4 feet or greater
Went out today with the wife and daughters striper fishing. Caught 3 nice fish drifting herring from 80 to
100 feet deep.If you want to try your luck just look for all the boats around the old bombing range.
Good luck to all and tight lines.

Subject: Clarks Hill (Strom Thurmond) Lake, South Carolina
Submitted by Strider
Date Fished: 6/11/2000
Water Temperature: 80s
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet
Sam and 8 y.o. son, CJ acompanied me to the "bait cove" near the #2 buoy. We set out 12am and fished till 4:30a.
Fish were just a crank or two off 45ft bottom. Lights attracted many herring so baits were lively and plentiful.
We caught 8 stripers and hybrids in the 2-5 lb range. We released many more...larger ones would make a late run
and hang in the anchor ropes and other downlines. It was nice to find some sizable fish in the area, even though we
lost the big ones. Circle hooks (2/0 - 4/0) did a good job of jaw-hooking the bad boys. Fellow campers enjoyed a
super fish fry Sunday evening.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by R. Tilson
Date Fished: 6/4/2000
Water Temperature: 77
Water Clarity: 4 feet or greater
Started fishing at 6:30am, by noon caught 8 all under 12". First 4 on a Buzz bait (missed first 4 strikes one
about a 3 lber), next 4 on Texas rigged lizards and finnesse worms. Around 1:00pm started seeing schooling fish.
Tied on a spook and caught 5 Stripers in about 45 min. biggest about 5lbs. Not a bad day on the lake,
still need to find quality size largemouth.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Samuel
Date Fished: 6/4/2000
Water Temperature: .
Water Clarity: 0
Went out yesterday evening to look for whatever might hit. Took a worm rod, spook rod, and two
beetle-spin rods in our small aluminum boat. The wife and kid caught bream and white bass as fast as they
could reel them in on the beetle-spin. The cat went too and enjoyed watching. I threw a floating worm
for several minutes without a hit. Fishing in the ramp #3 area saw fish breaking and thought they might be
bass. Caught two small stripers on the spook but sure there were bass in the group. Only fished for an hour
and the family wanted to get home.

Subject: Lake Greenwood, South Carolina
Submitted by Retiredguy
Date Fished: 6/1/2000
Water Temperature: 79
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet
Retiredguy and old Charlie launched at Irvine's at 0730 and motored down below the State Park to the
Greenwood Shores area. We fished the docks in this area using the Wacky Worm technique. After 3 piers
I caught Charlie throwing a Beetle Spin, Oh well! I continue throwing the Whacky for about a half hour and
then switched to a Yellow Floating worm (Zoom Trick). Charlie began catching Bream. I switched to a #5 Shadrap.
We fished the entire neck out and as we were coming to the end we saw some fish breaking on the main lake point.
With the boat sitting in 15 feet of water Charlie threw his 4" Dead Ringer Splitshot rig with 1/16 oz. sinker out
and let it sink. He then caught the only LM of the day. It was 14" and a nice fat fish. I did not get a fish all day.
Talked with a friend at the landing, he had found the fish schooling early in the morning in the same area we were
fishing. There were stripers and LM schooling together. He said you had to get there early, hopefully find the
schoolers. He caught some LM along with the stripers using a small Chug Bug.... Retiredguy feels for those
who have a scheduled tournament on Greenwood on Saturday. If the fishing wasn't bad enough, you still
have to contend with all the boat traffic...... tight lines.... Retiredguy

Subject: Wateree striper, South Carolina
Submitted by Gill on 6/28/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
Put in at wateree creek found bait in front of ramp in main channel went to dam
no water running water muddie went back down fished cleaner water 4 striper
largest 8 pounds 5 cat fish one soft shell turtle around 20 pounds thout i had a big
cat fish wrong. good fishing

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Tim on 6/24/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
Trolled for stripers last night for a few hours. Got 5, missed a few more. 2
looked like they could have been barely keepers. Others were about 18/19".
Didn't mark a whole lot of fish. Caught them all at about 35'. Nice 25lb'er from
the lake weighed in at Lake World yesterday caught on live bait, so there out
there somewhere.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Tim on 6/22/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
Put in around 7:00 PM yesterday. The stripers were schooling all over near the
dam. Mostly real small fish, but alot of fun on topwater plugs. Only one keeper on
top water. Got another right at dark on a freeline. After dark fished downrods at
35-45 feet. Action wasn't as fast, but better size fish with about half being keeper
size and the others were at least close. Still marking plenty of suspended fish when
I left at midnight, but they were more scattered. Looks like trolling should be
excellent.

Subject: Wateree, South Carolina
Submitted by Gill Bruton on 6/16/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
Fished Ceder creek area yesterday early for striper front had moved in day
before very slow one small striperone large mouth two catfish. A friend had
caught two striper 4 to 5 pounds. We fish live shad. Good fishing. Gill I guess i
am the only person fishing SC.

Subject: wateree, South Carolina
Submitted by Gill bruton on 6/14/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
fished Ceder creek early today caught 8 striper one around 12 pounds two 10
pounders the rest around 3 pounds 3 large mouth one around 4 pounds one cat
around 6 pounds bite was off at 930 am. good fishing GillS

Subject: Lake Hartwell, South Carolina
Submitted by Bill on 6/13/99
Water Temperature = 84
Water Clarity = 1 foot
Fished Coneross creek area....Found the Hybrids/striperstogather in 10/15 ft. of
water over 20/40 ft of water...Caught 11 on herring up to 8 lb. on free lines, and
limited results on a down line at 15 ft..Good Luck

Subject: Lake murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Martin on 6/11/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
Put in at putnam's at 6 pm and fished in the bear creek area 'til about 10. caught
and released 2 good quality largemouth-3 and 4 lb. got the 1st at dusk with a
fluke along a weedline and the other with a tube jig from under a dock in the
timerlake area. stripers were running baitfish into shallow water.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Rock on 6/7/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 4 feet or greater
Fished Sat. evening 5:00 to 8:30 and cought 7 stripers ; 3 keepers 23 to 25 in.
Fished Monday afternoon for 1.5 hrs and cought 5 fish only one keeper. But the
others didn't miss it buy much. All fish were 20 to 25 feet down over water that
was 45 to 60 foot deep. I used casting corks to keep bait at proper depth and
suspended others at propper depth at boat side. I anchored the boat and fish came
and went. No action then fish alarm would sound and then with in minutes the fish
would striking the baits. All fish cought in Bear creek area near Stinking creek.
Seeya on the water Rock.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Tim) on 6/6/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
Went night fishing and caught some stripers. Got about 12, with 7 small keepers.
Probably didn't have a keeper over 23", but it was alot of fun and great to be out on
the water without that daytime heat. Caught all the fish in the same spot, anchored
in 75'. Marked fish suspended anywhere from 36' to 55'. Stopped by the weigh in
for the tourn. Lake World had Sat. Was only there shortly and at the time, the
biggest fish weighed in so far was 14+ lbs. Biggest total weight (5 fish/boat) was
38+lbs. There was still a few boats to weigh in yet when I left. Most seemed to
have caught fish. Alot of small keepers. Gonna try the Saluda this evening.

Subject: Lake Murray, South Carolina
Submitted by Rock on 6/6/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 4 feet or greater
Fished in middle of Bear Creek close to Stinking Creek entrance with live bait and
cought 7 strippers. The largest was 8lbs two 5 pounders the rest were 18 to 20
inches. All fish were at 20 feet down in 40' to 60' of water. The fish were cought
between 10am and noon. Hardly the best time to fish for them or so I thought.
Also early and late saw surface activity of fish schooling; what ever the were they
wern't real big a pound or so.See ya on the lake. Rock.

Subject: wateree striper, South Carolina
Submitted by Gill on 6/1/99
Water Temperature = .
Water Clarity = 0
We fished the upper end at ceder creek the bite was strong until 8:00 am caught
around 10 or 12 most small with one good one around 10 pounds all caught on live
shad. please send us some rain! Gill