AHQ Report - Lake Keowee
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
Lake Keowee is at 97.3% of full pool. Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Good. Guide Brad Fowler (864-934-5813) reports that first thing in the morning and lasting for about 30-45 minutes there is fairly reliably a good topwater bite on Lake Keowee right now. The fish are not really schooling but if anglers pull up on […]
Lake Keowee is at 97.5% of full pool. Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Fair. Guide Brad Fowler (864-934-5813) reports that with warmer air and water temperatures fish are starting to slide up into a pre-spawn pattern. They are staging around main lake and secondary points, and any time now Brad expects the bass to make a […]
The Fish the Fall Elite Team Trail had its two-day Lake Murray event on Friday and Saturday (March 6 and 7), and it was a good one. The father/ son team of Mike and Brian Tidwell won the tournament with a two-day total of 48.33 pounds, including a whopping Day 2 bag weighing 30.79 pounds! […]
Following the third weekend in January, when several days of air temperatures in the 60s and even 70s had pushed surface temperatures in lakes statewide well above the 50 degree mark, it looked like it might be a short winter and spring might arrive early. At that point it appeared to be too late for […]
Whether he is fishing at home on Lake Wateree or travelling on the road, tournament angler Dearal Rodgers of Camden spends a lot of time throwing a jig. His go-to jigs are made by Buckeye Lures of Augusta, Georgia, and depending on the situation he throws either the Football Mop Jig or the standard Mop Jig. […]
In Saturday’s BFL Savannah River Division tournament on Lake Keowee Dearal Rodgers of Camden finished in third place out of 160 boaters, landing a healthy Lake Keowee bag weighing 13 pounds 4 ounces worth $1,719.00. Dearal is always generous with information about how he catches fish, and so I caught up with him to hear […]
Week 6 saw four open/ tournament trail events reported on SCFishingReport.com, including a CBC event on Lake Murray, a BFL event on Lake Keowee, a Fish the Fall event on Lake Hartwell, and an ABA event on Clarks Hill. CBC Lake Murray 173 boats and 374 anglers fished the first Carolinas Bass Challenge SC Division event […]
The BFL Savannah River Division had its first tournament of the 2015 season today on Lake Keowee. Congratulations to first place boater Jayme Rampey of Liberty who landed 17 pounds even of bass and took home $8.154.00 (including the Ranger and Mercury money) for the win! Second place went to Matthew Justice of Fair Play […]
As we pulled up to our first spot and prepared to drop our lines in the water on a cool, early winter morning, Guide Brad Fowler asked me what was the deepest I had ever caught a bass. I thought for a few moments and then guessed that my deepest fish had come in about […]
Some impressive Lake Keowee weights from the tournament yesterday. FISH THE FALL ELITE TRAIL RESULTS – LAKE KEOWEE 9/15/12 PLACE TEAM WEIGHT POINTS 1 LINK, RANDY GARRETT, JOHN 17.94 150 2 KELLEY, TERRY DURHAM, HASKELL 15.31 149 3 KINARD, TONY HOOD, DARRELL 14.57 148 4 AIKEN, BARTON ROHALEY, JEFF 14.17 147 5 CHAMPION, DEREK WEICKER, […]
It’s a matter of opinion (although a widely held one) to say that Lake Jocassee is the most scenic lake in South Carolina. It is also stating a personal preference to say that cold water trout are among the most beautiful, best-tasting fish this state has to offer. It is a fact, though, that there […]
When I pulled up to Broyle’s Landing for a day of Lake Hartwell bass fishing with Captain Brad Fowler the June sun was already high in the sky, and it was starting to get hot. When we launched a little after 8:00 it had been light for more than two hours, and I was pretty […]
This spring I had one of the best bass fishing trips of my life on Lake Jocassee with Captain Pat Bennett. It seemed that every ledge and piece of wood in main lake coves held good largemouth, smallmouth, spots, redeye bass and crosses of these species, and we caught them all day. When I returned […]
Growing up in Anderson fishing on Lake Hartwell, Pendleton’s Brad Fowler developed a love of bass fishing on that lake. Now that he owns and operates an electrical contracting business he has the flexibility to guide on Lakes Hartwell and Keowee and to fish local and national tournaments. In 2008 he fished the FLW Series […]
With its crystal clear blue waters Lake Jocassee may be the easiest lake in South Carolina in which to see bass, but the catching is more difficult. The first time Captain Pat Bennett fished Lake Jocassee a ten pound bass stared back at him and he saw several more fish approaching the same size, but […]