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April 10
Clarks Hill water levels are very high at 330.86 (full pool is 330.00) and water clarity is dropping from Monday’s rain. Morning surface water temperatures are around 67 degrees.
April 3
Clarks Hill water levels are at 329.78 (full pool is 330.00) and water clarity varies over the lake. Morning surface water temperatures are around 65 degrees.
March 26
Clarks Hill water levels are at 329.71 (full pool is 330.00) and water clarity varies from dingy to clear. Morning surface water temperatures range from about 58 to 60 degrees.
March 20
Clarks Hill water levels are at 329.76 (full pool is 330.00) and the clarity varies from dingy to clear. Morning surface water temperatures range from about 57 to 59 degrees.
March 12
Clarks Hill water levels are up to 330.25 (full pool is 330.00) and the lower lake is clear but as you go up the lake it gets progressively dirtier and there is debris including logs, branches, and dock parts floating. Morning surface water temperatures are about 52 in the clearer lower lake but 56 degrees further up in the creeks and rivers.
March 5
Clarks Hill water levels are slightly down to 329.76 (full pool is 330.00) and the main lake is clear while there is dirty water up the creeks and rivers. Morning surface water temperatures are about 51 degrees on the main channel and 55 in the creeks and rivers.
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Located on the Georgia/ South Carolina border approximately 22 miles upstream of the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia, the originally named Clarks Hill Dam and Lake were built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1946 and 1954. The last lake of the “Savannah River chain”, the dam near the South Carolina town of Clarks Hill is located near the confluence of the Georgia Little River and the Savannah River which form its two main arms. One of the largest man-made lakes in the Southeast, the lake covers approximately 71,000 acres at full pool, has around 1200 miles of shoreline, and extends over 39 miles up the Savannah River in its longest run. The lake was federally renamed J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir in 1987, but residents of Georgia and South Carolina often still refer to this body of water as Clarks Hill – still its official name per the state of Georgia.
A fishermen’s paradise with abundant underwater timber, Clarks Hill is known for its largemouth bass fishery, a large population of stocked striped and hybrid bass, big flathead and blue catfish, prolific crappie, bream, and more. The most significant forage species are a very large population of blueback herring, abundant gizzard shad and a dwindling population of threadfin shad.
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