South Carolina Fishing Report
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| Date | 03-May-13 | |
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: Lake Moultrie: Shellcracker: Fair. Some results off brush piles, but the bite is expected to improve with the full moon. last week's report - Bream: Good. Captain Steve English reports that shellcracker are starting to turn on shallow in the canal where they can be caught on worms. Bream are still out on the brushpiles but they should come shallow when water temperatures warm a few more degrees. Catfish: Slow to fair. Captain Jim Glenn reports that there has been no particular pattern for catfish, with some caught shallow and some caught deep and little consistency from day to day. Fishing is a little better in Lake Marion than in Lake Moultrie, with Lake Marion deserving a fair rating and Lake Moultrie basically slow. Catching fish requires a great deal of prospecting right now. Reported by: SCDNR |
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Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie are part of the Santee Cooper lake system.
The two lake combine for over 170,000 surface arces and are joined by the 6.5 mile Diversion
Canal. At this time the lakes hold a world record Channel Catfish (58 Ibs) and a
Warmouth weighing 2.2 Ibs was caught in a creek a few miles from lake Marion.
These lakes held the record for striped bass until 1977, its weight was 55 Ibs.
State records held are: Largemouth Bass (16.2 Ibs), Black Crappie (5 Ibs), Chain
(Jack) (6.4 Ibs), Channel Catfish (58 Ib.), Arkansas Blue (109.4 Ibs)
The Santee Cooper Lakes vary from shallow swamps and blackwater ponds to vast open water with a multitude of underwater structures. Lake Marion was not completely cleared, as a result, fishermen will find there are thousands upon thousands of stumps, standing dead tree trunks and live cypress trees. Lake Moultrie is more open and is 14 miles across at its widest point. These lakes do not ice over during the winter and there is no closed season for fishing season. Weather permitting, fishermen can fish year round. |
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