While filming his regional television show, The Carolina Outdoorsman, over the past week, Monty McGuffin has had some great outing fishing for bass on Lake Jocassee, and he expects the good fishing to last through most of the summer. […]
Trout fishemen at Lake Jocassee who have been waiting on the spring trout bite to turn on need to wait no longer. […]
Trout on Lake Jocassee seem to be in a holding pattern, waiting for the water to turn colder. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can’t catch them.
According to Capt. Steve Pietrykowski of Fishki Business, the trout fishing is a little slow, but it’s definitely going to pick up sometime soo.
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There’s no arguing that trout prefer cold water, and August is the time of year that typically means few trout on the stringer.
That’s not the case, however, on Lake Jocassee right now.
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Sam Jones doesn’t know why trout relate to structural features that are 100 feet beneath them. More important than “why” they do, though, is knowing “that” they do so and learning which structures attract the most fish any given month.
Jones, who operates Jocassee Charters, has learned those lessons through longevity. He grew up fishing Upstate waters with his dad, has fished Lake Jocassee for 30 years and has guided for the past 10 years. Jones specialized in controlled-depth trolling for trout, and he often targets fish that suspend well above structural features. […]
Hundreds of volunteers will gather at Lake Jocassee on July 30 to remove trash and debris in a collaborative effort that’s quickly showing how much local residents and recreation enthusiasts value the lake.
This clean-up event is the largest of its kind for Lake Jocassee.
Volunteers will disperse at 9 a.m. in teams to 11 land locations and nine scuba-dive locations to remove debris and beautify the lake. […]
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