AHQ Report - Santee Cooper
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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 newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-fall-2019-fishing-report/ August 21 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.92 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.83 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Morning surface temperatures are in the mid- to upper 80s and without much rain clarity is good. There continue […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-summer-2019-fishing-report/ June 21 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.74 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.22 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are in the low to mid-80s, and the upper end of the system is fairly muddy because […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-summer-2019-fishing-report/ June 6 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.48 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.34 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are in the low to mid-80s, and the lake remains relatively clear. There’s not a lot of […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-summer-2019-fishing-report/ May 21 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.70 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.40 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are in the mid to lower 80s, and could hit 90 by this weekend. The lake is […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-2019-fishing-report/ January 17 Santee Cooper water levels are at 76.41 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.04 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are about 52 degrees. There is a ton of water running through the lakes, with the upper […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-2019-fishing-report/ January 10 Santee Cooper water levels are at 76.41 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.16 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are in the mid-50s. The lakes are still muddy and it is unlikely that they will clear […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-2019-fishing-report/ January 2 Santee Cooper water levels are at 76.40 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.10 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures have risen to about 55 degrees. With a tremendous amount of inflow the lakes range from dingy […]
— If you know of a fishing tournament taking place in South Carolina that has not been included here, please email jay@usfishingreport.com and we will add it. Thank you! — January 2019 January 5 Cody Ambrose Benefit Tournament on Lake Murray from Koons Landing CATT Lake Hartwell Qualifier #4 from Broyles CATT Lake Robinson Qualifier […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-fall-2018-fishing-report/ October 19 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.98 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.09 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures have dropped into the mid to upper-70s and they are pulling a lot of water through the […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-summer-2018-fishing-report/ June 20 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.74 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.52 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures are around 84 degrees and the water is clear green. The catfish bite in the diversion canal […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-2018-fishing-report/ March 15 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.17 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.07 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures have dropped all the way back into the mid-50s. The upper lake and even part of the […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-2018-fishing-report/ March 1 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.96 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.77 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). After some cooler weather surface temperatures have dropped back down into the low 60s. The lower lake is fairly […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-2018-fishing-report/ February 16 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.24 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.14 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures are as warm as 56 degrees; the lower lake is clear, the upper lake is dingy, and […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-winter-2017-18-fishing-report/ January 18 Santee Cooper water levels are at 73.23 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 73.29 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures range from the low-40s to 44 or 45 degrees. The upper lake is a bit dingy with […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-winter-2017-18-fishing-report/ December 15 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.29 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.36 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures have dropped to about 50 degrees. It’s gotten cold on the Santee Cooper lakes, and accordingly Captain […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report, updated September 15, is available at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-fall-2017-fishing-report/ September 1 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.20 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.10 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are in the lower 80s. After a really slow late summer, Captain Steve English (843-729-4044) […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report, updated July 2, can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-summer-2017-fishing-report/ June 9 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.68 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.46 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures are around 78 degrees and the water is high and dingy. As anticipated Captain […]
— May 19 Santee Cooper water levels are at 75.41 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 75.35 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water temperatures are in the upper 70s, and particularly Lake Marion is muddy – while the lower lake is a little better. While there haven’t been a ton of […]
— The newest Santee Cooper fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-spring-fishing-report/ March 31 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.71 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.48 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Water conditions are extremely clear for Santee and temperatures range from the mid-60s all the way up to the […]
— February 20 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.9 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.9 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures range from the mid-50s on the main lake to the upper 50s in the shallows. Warm water temperatures have crappie moving shallow already on the Santee Cooper […]
— Note that the most recent Santee Cooper fishing report is available at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-santee-cooper-sc-winter-fishing-report/ January 13 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.31 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.25 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Surface temperatures are currently about 51 degrees but will rise today. Tournament angler Steve Harmon reports […]
— December 4 Santee Cooper water levels are down to 73.7 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 73.5 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5). Main lake surface temperatures range from about 60-61 degrees. The bite for numbers of catfish continues to be good, but Captain Jim Glenn (843-825-4239) suspects that the big fish […]
— Catfish: Fair to good. Captain Jim Glenn (843-825-4239) reports that good numbers of small to medium-sized catfish have been caught drifting cut baits. Crappie: Fair to good. Captain Steve English (843-729-4044) reports that crappie have moved shallower and they can be caught on minnows fished over brush. Bream: Fair to good. Captain Steve English reports […]
— Bass: Slow to fair. Steve Harmon reports that fishing has slowed down but the pattern remains basically the same – although a surprising number of fish seem to have moved shallow in the last week or so. Early in the morning fish can be caught in shallow water where they will take topwater lures, […]