-- June 22 Lake Keowee is at 95.6% of full pool, and water temperatures range from 82 to 87 on the lake right now.  The lake level has been fluctuating quite a bit recently but clarity remains good except in the very back of a few creeks. Bass remain are in a summer pattern on Lake Keowee, but veteran Lake Keowee fisherman Charles Townson of the Keowee Anglers reports that the early bite is not as strong as ...

-- June 9 Lake Wylie remains at 98.5% of full pool, and Guide and FLW fisherman Bryan New (704-421-5868) says that he has never seen the lake stay this high for this long.  Water temperatures have cooled off a bit to about 78 degrees, and below Buster Boyd Bridge the lake is pretty clear.  Above that it’s more stained, and above South Point Landing on the South Fork it’s dirty – with more mud on the way. Th ...

-- June 9 Lake Jocassee is up to 93.3% of full pool, and water temperatures range from 71-72 in the big water first thing to as high as about 75 up the rivers as the day progresses. The trout bite is following a typical summer path on Lake Jocassee, and Guide Sam Jones (864-280-9056) reports that fish are starting to get a little bit deeper.  Fish looking for cool water have to be lower in the water column ...

-- June 9 Clarks Hill water levels are at 323.61 (full pool is 330.00), and morning surface temperatures are around 83 degrees.  Water conditions are very clear. Unsurprisingly, Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that as the summer heat sets in on Clarks Hill the bass fishing is starting to get tough.  Further complicating things is that Clarks Hill water levels have come up several feet in the last month, wh ...

-- June 9 Lake Russell water levels are at 474.26 (full pool is 475.00) and water temperatures are 80 degrees and slightly above. As is expected once water temperatures reach the 80s, Guide Jerry Kotal (706-988-0860) reports that the Russell bass bite has gotten a little slow.  You can still catch fish but they are getting deeper, and unlike in the winter when there is some of the best fishing of the year t ...