Fishing Lake Wateree

Water level 6-feet above normal. Water temperature averaging 82 to 83 degrees.

Largemouth Bass: Good, casting to deep banks with deep-running crankbaits and plastic worms.

Striped Bass: Fair, using cut bait in the lower end of the lake, 40 - 50 feet of water, near the dam. Stripers schooling in the lower half of the lake early and late, mostly smaller fish. Some fish being caught below Wateree Dam with topwater lures.

White Bass: Slow. Some being caught in striper schools.

White Perch: Excellent using various baits including Sassy Shad, jigs, grubs and live
minnows.

Crappie: Fair, try trolling with Wow grubs or Slider grubs. Fish are at the mouths of major feeder creeks suspended in the water column 12
feet deep.

Catfish: Good, live redworms, nightcrawlers, using live shad, small pieces of shrimp and cut bait close to bottom in major feeder creeks.

Bream: Excellent, try worms and crickets fished around bedding bream and around mayfly hatches.  
 

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