AHQ Report - Santee Cooper
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
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, […]
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 […]
Winter Catfishing on Lake Wateree with Captain Rodger Taylor In December of 2008 I went on my first “serious” catfishing trip – a guided trip with Captain Rodger Taylor on Lake Wateree. Since then I have fished Lake Wylie twice with Rodger, and he has given me periodic fishing reports on both major Catawba Chain […]
ABA D-96 Tournament Results Clarks Hill Lake – April 13, 2014 Division 96 2014 Season Group picture from left to right; 1st place Jay Treon of Greenwood, SC / 2nd place Steve Christie of Gray Court, SC / (3rd place – not pictured due to boat trouble is Phillip Anderson of Saluda, SC) / 4th place Jason Moyer […]
The Santee Cooper lakes have long been known as an exceptional catfish fishery, blessed with both large numbers of fish and very large fish. And while the world record channel catfish was caught from Lake Moultrie (58 pounds, caught in 1964), and the state record flathead catfish (79 pounds – 4 ounces, caught in 2001) […]
This summer I had a chance to make my second catfishing expedition on Lake Moultrie with Captain Jim Glenn, and for the second time I was blessed with unseasonably mild weather. In the winter of 2008 we went on an unusually warm day where air temperatures bumped the 70 degree mark, and this summer we […]
Thanks to tournament director Phil Morris for results and information… ABA D-96 Tournament Results Clarks Hill – June 2, 2013 Group picture is of the top 4 from left to right; 1st place Steve Christie of Gray Court, SC. 2nd place and big fish winner William Hooker of Appling, Ga. 3rd place Don Kneece of Saluda, SC 4th place Chris […]
Last year I was fortunate enough to go on a Lake Wateree crappie fishing trip with Southern Crappie Tournament Trail fishermen and Wateree master crappie angler Will Hinson. Our trip did not disappoint, and we caught several limits of crappie using his preferred warm-water techniques of fishing around brush piles and targeting bridges. Crappie are […]
Check out this nice bass caught by Captain Steve English on Christmas Day. It was taken on a crankbait in the upper lake fishing in a creek in about 8 feet of water.
When I call my contacts for fishing updates and reports, from time to time I will be told that they don’t have a new report for me. Occasionally a tackle store will tell me that it has received few reports on a particular species recently, a guide will tell me that he has not been […]
Lake Greenwood is on Fire: Catfishing on Lake Greenwood with Captain Chris Simpson When I went fishing with Captain Chris Simpson for trophy blue catfish on Lake Monticello, we anchored down and waited patiently for the big bite. It was an exciting waiting game, because nothing and nobody can tell a giant blue catfish what to […]
When Captain Doug Lown says that Lake Murray is like a pond out of balance it is worth listening. Captain Lown has fished Lake Murray for 35 years and has been a preeminent largemouth bass guide on the lake for more than 20. He has watched the crappie fishery decline over the last 20 or […]