Lake Murray Archives - Page 8 of 11

Guide Brad Taylor said Lake Murray has been giving up a lot of summer shellcrackers weighing better than a pound.

Lake Murray shellcracker bite has been excellent

Shellcracker fishing success isn’t simply reserved for springtime bed-fishing. There’s some outstanding fishing right now for huge shellcrackers at Lake Murray. […]

Cooler water temperatures have made for a great July bass bite on Lake Murray.

Lake Murray bass have the feed bag on

Terry Madewell

Because of the wet weather and cooler water temperatures, fishing for largemouth bass on Lake Murray is on fire, according to guide Chris Heinning. […]

Guide Brad Taylor is catching regular limits of crappie around deep brushpiles on Lake Murray and said the productive pattern should last several more weeks.

Deep brushpiles producing limits of Lake Murray crappie

Terry Madewell

Limits of slab crappie are being snatched from Lake Murray, and the good news is this productive pattern should last for the next several weeks. […]

Guide Chris Heinning caught this nice Lake Murray striper on a topwater plug -- a bite that's been great over the past few days.

Early morning Lake Murray monsters mauling topwater baits

Terry Madewell

Topwater striper action has kicked into high gear on the lower end of Lake Murray, and it’s prime time for anglers to take advantage of action very early and late in the day. […]

Casey Logan and Jim Sims won the CATT Trail's Spring Final on Lake Murray with a 19-pound limit.

Hopkins anglers win CATT on Lake Murray

Brian Cope

Casey Logan and Jim Sims of Hopkins won the CATT Trail’s May 11 Lake Murray Spring Final with a sack of five largemouth bass that weighed an even 21 pounds. […]

Guide Brad Taylor is catching big limits of crappie in the mouths of Lake Murray's creeks by tight-lining live minnows.

Crappie fishing at Lake Murray has blasted off in mouth of creeks

Terry Madewell

A full stringer-limit of slab crappie will make a “crappies are biting” believer out of anyone, and guide Brad Taylor of Batesburg is making that crappie-catching connection at Lake Murray. […]

Prespawn Explosion — March is a great month for a Lake Murray bass-fishing trip

South Carolina Sportsman

As far as Ben Lee of Columbia is concerned, there is no better month to fish on Lake Murray than March. […]

Jason Selfridge of Saluda shows off a nice Lake Murray bass — the kind the lake is still producing, despite no longer being considered a trophy lake.

The changing nature of Lake Murray

South Carolina Sportsman

Tales of honey holes that produce all the time on Lake Murray are hard to come by these days because, according to Hal Beard, a fisheries biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, who said the nature of the lake has changed. […]

Slow-trolling in the upper reaches of this big reservoir is the ticket to a plate full of great-tasting fish.

Push-pull slabs: Slow-trolling live and artificial baits is killer technique for Lake Murray winter crappie

Phillip Gentry

One of the more desirable features about crappie, other than their table qualities, is that these scrappy panfish have a higher metabolism than most freshwater species. […]

Bass fishing in the upper end of Lake Murray has been great over the past week.

Upper end of Lake Murray features a good bass bite

Terry Madewell

Largemouth bass fishing typically slows this time of year on many lakes, but the upper end of Lake Murray is producing good action. […]