Water temp: 48-52.  After these last few days the surface water has made it up to the low 50's.  Fishing was great the last couple days for Crappie.  Crappie are biting very well.  I'm finding most of my crappie still in 15-25 ft of water 6-15 ft down.  Small crappie minnows are working well over brush piles. Now I caught my biggest crappie of the year yesterday.. I didn't weigh it, but It came in at 15 inches!  I put her back to swim another day!  As for the bass, I found a good school that was chasing shad up a major creek in 17 ft of water. We were able to catch a couple pulling umbrella rigs to start, but the best of the bass fishing was in 8-17 ft of water off a couple primary points.   Some of those bass boys would die to have those spots for a tournament! As for stripers, I'm catching but not filling coolers. Over all I have been after crappie most of all.  Most of my stripers have been caught on small bait while crappie fishing or by pulling umbrella rigs.  If I see a few birds working an area.

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Fish and Chips!  Boy is it hard to beat fried Crappie!  I spent the day yesterday insearch of new brush piles!  I'd have to say it was successfull!  Now
finding a new crappie hole is a lot of searching, finding and trying.  It takes
a lot of time.  With the water around 7ft from full pool, it is a great time to
ride around areas you like to crappie fish and mark brush piles that are in the
shallows.  Bass fisherman and Crappie fisherman, thanks for your hard work in
putting them in the lake.  Boy do some of them make good fishing spots.  I think
I marked at least 10-15 new Brush piles yesterday that were in 8-10 ft of water on the old Hummingbird.
  Now right now that is a little shallow in water depth to catch a big mess of
Crappie, but if the water goes up quick or closer to spawn those brush piles
will be worth there weight in Crappie. 

As for the water Temp I had 48 degrees in the morning and in places by mid
afternoon had 52 in some areas in the back of the creeks.  I had to look hard
for deeper brush, the best being Brush that I found in 15 ft of water.  I was
catching some crappie only 5 ft down.  Minnows and jigs worked good.  Seemed that
the jig actually caught a few of the bigger fish of the day. Matter of fact I
think it could have got ugly on at least one of the brush piles.  Over all, I
still think if you has a good brush pile in 15-25 ft it should have Crappie on
it this time of year and they should bite good all day for you. GOOD LUCK
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Capt. Steve Pie 

As a whole the water temp has been around 48.  Warmer in the backs of the creeks where there is muddier water and cooler in the main lake.  Both the Tugaloo and Seneca side has been producing a few Crappies.  Most crappie are coming in 15-25 foot of water over brush.  I've found that the fish are alittle spread out, but you can catch a handfull of fish off each brushpile in the right area.  Small crappie minnows seem to be working the best.  As for the Striper and Hybrids, Live bait has been a little slow.  Try Pulling Large Gizzard Shad for the Big fish!  Umbrella riggs are still working really well.  Im finding schools of fish under the birds!

Wow the weather has been great this year for us here in SC.  Fishing remains to be pretty good over all. Or Great for the month of Jan.  Some days are better then others, but over all for the middle of Jan, I have been impressed!  Water temp is still reading 48 degrees.  Now the live bait bite has been a little tough, the artificial bite has been good.  Just about every day I still see a little surface activity.  The fish are keyed in the the small threadfin shad, making it tough to get them to bite our usaual offering(bluebacks)  I have had to downsize my livebait and tackle making some exciting battles on light tackle.  Some days were lucky to get the fish over what I call clean bottom and our odds to land 6-10 lb striper on 8 lb line is very high.  The days that we find the fish over trees makes it tough to pull on the fish without them diving right to the trees.  U-riggs are still doing well and I would have to say if a man liked to flyfish for these fish, now can still be the time to try that.  Use small streamers for flies 1-2 inches long, no longer and hold on!

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We have been blessed with great weather for this time of year.  Water temps are up from last year this time.  Actually fishing has been pretty good.  It is still a mixed bag bite.  I'm still making my days by catching a little of everything.  For someone that just wants to make it on the water in the mid day and fish in the afternoon, this is the time of year to do it. Fish will bite all day long in the winter.  Fisherman are having sucess by just pulling freeline blue back and gizzard shad with a handfull of fish every day.  I mix it up between how I see the fish are reacting.

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This report is comming from before the Heavy rain we had yesterday.  We recorded 2.5 inches of rain.  Matter fact I have to say that the fish are keyed in to the small shad.  I have got smart and I'm starting to catch the Shad and have them while I'm fishing.  I'm picking up just about everything and making a great catch.  The weather has held off for us this year and I would have to say we should have good fishing through Christmas at least!  Blake caught an 8lber on 8 lb the other day.  It was quite exciting! 

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Water temp: 59 degrees
What a Pretty weekend on the water!  Over all I had pretty good fishing.  I called it a Shmorgishborg!  We caught a little of everything Thursday-Monday.  We caught a handful of Stripers, Hybrids, Largmouth, Spotted Bass, Flathead cats, Channels cats, and White Perch.  Actually it seemed the only fish that we didn't catch was a Crappie.  Sometimes you just have to catch what the fish gods offer and this week it was a little of everything!  Fun Part is that I have been able to incorperate a little ultra-light fishing with my regular Striper Tackle.  Makes things interesting when you hook that monster on 6 pound test! Nice Job Jacob on the big FlatHead Catfish!

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Water temp was 61 degrees.  The morning was calm and alittle misty which changed to party cloudy and windy in the afternoon.  I was able to locate some good striper action yesterday.  I did see about a half hour of top water action.   I caught a mixed bag of  Stripers, Hybrids, Largemouth, White Perch and Blue cats.  The wind picked up as the day moved to the afternoon and made fishing a little tough.  I found my fish up the rivers in the 30 foot range!  Tight lines.  I'm off to the lake this afternoon!

Well everyone.  I went off for a vacation.  Hunting and fishing expo!  I archery hunting Ohio all week taking a good 9 point.  For the fishing.  I went Winter Steehead fishing up in Michigan.  This fishing was kinda tough but I was still able to put a handfull on the beach.  I'll have some up to date fishing reports here this week.

Water temp: 67
Water: clear with brown tint
Air Temp:  40 in the am 70 
High Pressure system is over us now:

Well I think it is safe  to  say that last weeks cold snap has made a big change in the fishing. Striper/Hybrids were tricky for me over the weekend.  I look for the fish
to start to move to shallower water and move up in the water column. It is
completely different in the main lake right now than the past 3 weeks. 
Believe it or not the upper parts of the rivers and shallows have already
started to stabilize, from what we consider the ( Fall Turn Over )  There
has been a lot of Dark Brown Bubbles,  that looks like foam in the water
and the water just has a darker tint to in in areas.  Now I have had some
good Crappie reports from friends continued from my day last Sunday and I did do
well on Spotted bass and stumbled on a good Blue Catfish bite over the
weekend.  Matter of fact I was happy to see the Blue cats... Again I don't
focus on Blues that often, in the fall can be a great time to Catch Cats.. 
It was nice to see the rod bend with a big Catfish when the Stripers are being
tricky. The Catfish and Crappie should continue to bite good for the next couple
weeks while the rest of the lake complete its "turn over"