Lake Marion: Largemouth Bass: Fair, using live shiners, Carolina rigs and artificial worms, fishing along drops and creek banks, especially in morning. Striped Bass: Good. Fairly well with live bait, bucktail shiners at The Brickyard and past Red Bank. White Perch: Slow. Try jigging off bottom with Hopkins spoons and with smaller nightcrawlers on sand points. Use nightcrawlers at sunrise and sunset. Crappie: Good, using small and medium minnows over deep brush piles, bridge pilings and piers. Best fishing in the morning and evening. Catfish: Excellent, use live shiners, cut shad, and herring off bottom drifting in deep water and at night in shallow water. Bream and Shellcrackers: Good, using redworms, crickets and waxworms in 4 to 6 feet of water and fishing shallow.
Lake Moultrie: Largemouth Bass: Fair, cast spinnerbaits, plastic worms and lizards along docks and structure. Also cast Rattletraps and Rapala lures around Pinopolis Point and Old Hatchery. Striped Bass: Fair, casting and trolling. Crappie: Excellent, using crickets and small to medium minnows around fish attraction areas and brush piles. Some crappie being caught on the bed with minnows and jigs. Catfish: Excellent, 9 to 15 feet deep using cut herring, stink bait, chicken livers and shiners 9 to 20 feet deep near the bottom dike edges and around the dam. Bream: Excellent. Use crickets and redworms, nightcrawlers around fish attraction areas and banks. Shellcrackers: Good. Use crickets and redworms along the banks in river runs and along points, possibly in canals.
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