AHQ Report - Clarks Hill
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
— May 10 Lake Hartwell water levels are up to 652.80 (full pool is 660.00), and water temperatures range from the upper-60s to low-70s. They dropped significantly over the weekend but are now rebounding towards the mid-70s again. On windy days the water is a little dingy but overall clarity is good without significant rain […]
— The most recent Clarks Hill fishing report, updated May 19, can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-clarks-hill-gasc-spring-fishing-report/ April 26 Clarks Hill water levels are at 322.02 (full pool is 330.00). It really is the best time of the year to fish for bass on Clarks Hill, and Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that the bite is […]
— The newest Clarks Hill fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-clarks-hill-gasc-spring-fishing-report/ March 13 Clarks Hill water levels are at 319.81 (full pool is 330.00), and water temperatures are in the high 50s but dropping. Clarity is good for Clarks Hill. As recently as this Saturday bass were up shallow spawning on Clarks Hill, although Buckeye […]
— March 8 Lake Hartwell water levels are at 650.23 (full pool is 660.00), and water temperatures range from the mid to upper-50s. Clarity is good. After the winter doldrums Lake Hartwell striped bass are starting to “move around” again, and Captain Bill Plumley (864-287-2120) reports that fish are starting to scatter out and move up […]
— February 20 Clarks Hill water levels are at 319.96 (full pool is 330.00), and water temperatures are in the high-50s to low-60s. Water temperatures are so warm that the bass aren’t doing what they are usually doing at this time of year on Clarks Hill, but they are definitely biting. Buckeye Lures in Augusta […]
— Please note that the newest Clarks Hill fishing report can be found at: http://www.anglersheadquarters.com/ahq-insider-clarks-hill-gasc-winter-fishing-report/ January 20 Clarks Hill water levels are at 320.00 (full pool is 330.00), and water temperatures are in the high 50s. Water temperatures remain unseasonably warm, and perhaps as a result of this Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that bass […]
— December 2 Clarks Hill water levels are down to 319.55 (full pool is 330.00) and water temperatures are in the mid-60s. Bass fishing on Clarks Hill hasn’t changed a whole lot in the last few weeks, chiefly because water temperatures haven’t really dropped much. Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that the buzzbait bite is […]
— Nov. 30 Lake Russell water levels are at 474.89 (full pool is 475.00) and surface temperatures are in the lower 60s. Clarity is good. Bass fishing on Lake Russell is hot, and Guide Jerry Kotal (706-988-0860) reports that on recent trips they have been catching 50-60 spotted bass each time. And believe it or […]
— Bass: Fair to good. Buckeye Lures reports that fish are moving into a pretty strong fall pattern. A variety of surface-oriented lures including Spooks, floating worms and buzzbaits have all been catching fish. Striper and Hybrids: Fair to good. Captain William Sasser (864-333-2000) reports that striper are in a transition period, and even though numbers […]
— Striper and Hybrids: Very good. Captain William Sasser (864-333-2000) reports that each day his boat is catching very nice limits of both species, mostly fishing about 50 feet deep with down-lined live herring in the lower part of the lake. Some early schooling activity is just getting started in the same areas where he […]
— August 4 Clarks Hill water levels are at 325.51 (full pool is 330.00), and water temperatures are in the upper 80s. Clarity is better than normal, except on the weekends when a flotilla of boats and jet skis are stirring everything up. Bass fishing in a lot of area lakes has slowed down with […]
— August 4 Lake Russell water levels are at 474.45, inches below full pool of 475.0. Water temperatures are as high as 91 degrees in some places and clarity is normal. Guide Jerry Kotal (706-988-0860) jokes that in the heat of the summer it seems that there may not be any largemouth bass alive in […]
— Clarks Hill water levels are at 328.29 and water temperatures are 74 or 75 degrees. Bass fishing on Clarks Hill is known for having the potential to get a little tough once the herring spawn is completed, and unfortunately this year is no exception. In a 130-boat tournament last weekend it only took about […]
— Overall, Lake Hartwell is at 660.14 and water clarity is normal. Water temperatures are in the mid-70s. It’s a transition period for bass on Lake Hartwell according to Guide Brad Fowler, and even though fish can be caught there is no “red hot” bite right now. Fish can still be found bedding, and there […]
— Clarks Hill water levels are at 329.61 and water temperatures have risen into the mid-70s. It’s finally gotten to be “that time” of year for bass fishing on Clarks Hill – the period when everyone wants to be on the water and national tournament series want to come to the lake. Buckeye Lures in Augusta […]
— Clarks Hill water levels are at 330.03 and water temperatures average in the low 60s. In the last few years it has not been uncommon for the best fishing of the year on Clarks Hill to be almost starting to wind down by mid-April, but that isn’t a concern this year! Buckeye Lures in Augusta […]
— Even before the second FLW Tour event of the season got underway Thursday on Lake Hartwell, Guide Brad Fowler predicated that sight-fishing would play a very significant role in the tournament. Brad estimated that by Thursday about 50% of the fish were actively bedding, while another 50% were still pre-spawn. With the weather Lake […]
— For anglers who define spring not based on a calendar but as the time when crappie spawn, there can be doubt that spring has arrived on Clarks Hill! Captain William Sasser (864-333-2000) reports that almost all of the fish have moved up shallow, and in the backs of coves crappie are spawning and eating […]
— In the last couple of weeks Clarks Hill water temperatures have skyrocketed, and as a result Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that significant numbers of male fish have started moving up onto points and getting ready for the spawn. The next stage for these fish will be moving into pockets, and if the water temperatures […]
Tournament crappie angler Will Hinson of Cassatt, SC and his tournament partner Tommy Slice of Chapin, SC are fresh off a victory in the 80-boat national Crappie USA Super Event on Clarks Hill, in which they weighed in a whopping 29.81 pounds (14 fish, 2+ pound average) over two days. They are also coming off […]
— Last year at this time Lake Greenwood was giving up 27+ pound bags, but that feat was not to be repeated this past Saturday. Six months of rain and a cold late winter had Lake Greenwood cold and muddy for the tournament Saturday, but in some tough conditions Jerry Kotal (our customary Lake Russell […]
IMPORTANT site changes coming. Effective March 1 only customers of the Angler’s Headquarters online tackle store will have access to our fishing reports. Read more here. For a lot of anglers catching bass on Clarks Hill has been no problem, but getting big bites has been an issue. In the BFL Saturday a week ago […]
Even though Clarks Hill water levels have pretty much returned to normal now, very recently they were 7(!) feet above full pool and the Corps had all of the gates running wide open. But while fish on some other lakes in South Carolina seem to have been disoriented and thrown out of their natural winter-time […]
If you guessed that near-80 degree days in the latter part of December would have the Clarks Hill bass wondering which way is up, you would be right! Buckeye Lures in Augusta reports that the fish don’t know what to make of this weather, and the bass are “so daggone confused” that they are hunkered down […]