Lake Murray Archives - Page 9 of 11

Fall crappie fishing can be tough this time of year, but covering water is the way to ensure you catch your limit.

Find the bait, find the crappie at Lake Murray

Matt Coffey

Catching crappie is no problem at Lake Murray these days – as long as you can find them. […]

Find the bait, find the crappie at Lake Murray

Matt Coffey

Catching crappie is no problem at Lake Murray these days – as long as you can find them. […]

Stripers on Lake Murray are in between summer and fall patterns, but that doesn’t mean you can’t catch a mess for dinner.

Lake Murray stripers in transition, but they’re still biting

Matt Coffey

There’s no doubt that fall presents some of the year’s best fishing on South Carolina lakes. As the water starts to cool, fish move into their cold-weather patterns and are a lot easier to catch. […]

Buddy Bouknight shows off a nice brace of Lake Murray stripers caught this past week.

Lake Murray fall striper bite turning on

Terry Madewell

If you ask Lake Murray striper guide Buddy Bouknight he caught stripers in September, and he says, “Just about every way possible” you can take that to the bank. […]

Catching a mess of crappie on Lake Murray right now is just about as easy as finding the fish and dropping a line.

Oodles of crappie biting at Lake Murray

Matt Coffey

Lake Murray seems to be a hot spot these days, with crappie so numerous that there’s no way to catch just one. In fact, the bite is so good it’s hard not to catch lots of them, according to guide Brad Taylor of Taylor Outdoors. […]

Live herring seem to be driving the stripers wild on Lake Murray wild these days. Once you find the fish, it’s just a matter of time before you catch a limit.

Lower end of Lake Murray producing lots of stripers

Matt Coffey

The striped bass on Lake Murray must have been watching “Shark Week” programming on the Discovery Channel, because they seem to have taken a hint from their saltwater brethren and have started a feeding frenzy of their own. […]

The author caught this nice channel actfish at Lake Murray.

Channel cats tearing it up at Lake Murray

Brian Cope

Lake Murray is well-known for stripers and largemouth, but it’s the channel catfish bite that has Capt. Chris Simpson of Fightin Da Blues Guide Service excited. […]

Pre-dawn bass action on Lake Murray has keyed on the presence of blueback herring and a good topwater bait, according to guide Chris Heinning.

Find the bait and find Lake Murray bass

Terry Madewell

Lake Murray’s big largemouth bass are busting topwater baits early and late, and they’re also being caught during the middle of the day by fishermen willing to work through the heat and humidity.

According to guide Chris Heinning, it’s all about the bait, specifically blueblack herring.
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Guide Brad Taylor has been catching a lot of Lake Murray crappie in 12 to 20 feet of water this month.

Go Live for Lake Murray’s best fishing

Matt Coffey

From crappie to stripers, live bait on Lake Murray seems to be the cat’s meow when it comes to catching fish lately. Just ask any fishing guide and they’ll tell you that from panfish to their larger cousins, if it’s live bait, it’s working. […]

May brings out the best that Lake Murray has to offer.

Lake of the Month: Lake Murray

Jeff Samsel

Folks who fully embrace a mindset of “You can’t have you cake and eat it, too” haven’t spent time fishing at Lake Murray. […]