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Lake Murray SC fishing Report June 11,2009

• Bream: Awesome. Very good.  The bluegill and shellcracker spawn is well underway.Look for fish in water as shallow as a few inches and down to about 3 feet, with most fish seeking out shallow water for the spawn. For bluegill use crickets and for shellcracker fish sections of nightcrawlers or troll slowly throwing jigs for a mixed bag.
• Striped Bass: Good. Striped bass are schooling around the dam, in the Ballentine area and around Beaver Creek. Free lines, down rods, and cut bait off points is also catching fish. Try drift fishing on the main river channels and off the main points. It is really getting good! Trolling is also offering some good catches. During the day cut bait fishing in 20 to 30 feet of water off main lake humps and points is working for numbers of fish.  Other anglers are turning to night fishing over suspended lights with live herring on down rods.
• Largemouth Bass:fair. Fish are moving into a summer pattern.  Some of the biggest fish may have returned to deeper water. Early in the morning there is good topwater action, particularly on buzzbaits. Later in the day Carolina rigs thrown up on points are a very good choice.
• Crappie: Good. Good numbers of crappie fishing over brushpiles 10-20 feet deep with jigs and minnows.  The fish are feeding best early in the morning or in the late evening.  . This has been a hard season on Crappie fisherman. Just strange is the only way to put it. You are either on them or your not with no middle ground. 
• Catfish: Excellent. The Lake Murray catfish bite is on fire and lots of 2 to 8 pound channel and blue catfish are being caught fishing with cut herring and nightcrawlers in the shallows all over the lake. 
• Saluda River Trout. Good. Catches have picked up and the stripers are now starting to get to the top of the river. Striped bass. Excellent. The big boys are up in the cooler tailrace.Use herring and drift fish. Keep in mind you cant keep any till September 30. Smallmouth Bass: Good and getting better try jigs and lures in the rocks around shoals. Water flow has been high at times so check SCEG flows before going.

Lake Murray is well above 358 and close to 359. 360 is full pool.

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