-- October 20 Santee Cooper water levels are at 74.21 in Lake Marion (full pool is 76.8) and 74.18 in Lake Moultrie (full pool is 75.5).  In less than a week water temperatures have dropped almost 10 degrees from 79 to 70.  Clarity is better than normal. The catfish bite on the Santee Cooper lakes is still pretty good, and Captain Jim Glenn (843-825-4239) reports that the best bite is in the 20-30 foot rang ...

-- October 20 Lake Murray water levels are down to 354.41 and slowly dropping (full pool is 360.00), and water temperatures are in the mid- to lower-70s.  Clarity remains good. In the SC BASS Federation 6-man bass tournament on Lake Murray last weekend the Greenwood Bassmasters extended their domination over the event and the lake.  The Greenwood Bassmasters caught 155.39 pounds over the two-day event, whil ...

-- October 20 Lake Monticello water temperatures have dropped into the mid to lower-70s, while clarity is still very good.  Lake levels generally fluctuate daily. After a late-summer slowdown bass fishing on Lake Monticello is getting better, and tournament angler Andy Wicker of Pomaria reports that fish are starting to move shallower.  That’s Monticello-shallow, not Lake Wateree shallow, and so some good f ...

-- October 20 Lake Greenwood water temperatures have dropped to around 73 degrees, and water levels are at 438.08 (full pool is 440.0).  Clarity is pretty good. When he isn’t winning 278-man tournaments on Lake Murray, veteran tournament angler Stan Gunter is keeping up with the Lake Greenwood bass for us.   He reports that it’s still not taking a ton of weight to win on Greenwood – recently about 14 pounds ...

-- October 20 Lake Wateree is at 97.6% of full pool, and water temperatures are around 73-74 degrees.  The lake is pretty clear for Wateree. Bass fishing is still really tough on Lake Wateree, and CATT owner Brett Collins says that this is the latest in October that he has seen the fishing this difficult.  Usually by the first of October he sees fish moved up shallow in the pockets, but this year it just do ...