I managed to get out on the lake Sunday.  It was windy and tough to fish; however, I saw a few guys that did well on black bass casting shad raps.  I was looking for crappie and found them stacked up along the trees which line the river channel outside of Fishing Creek.  They are grouped up and in 18 to 22 feet of water.  I only caught a few, but I know there were many more there.  A lot of the crappie have begun to stage in the creeks in  15 to 20 feet of water.

If you can find a spot where the channel winds down and comes up quickly to 5 feet or so, you have a good stage area.  With the water low, the fish will stage in larger schools.  Find one of these areas and you can have a ball for the next few weeks. 

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Remember,  with 1200 miles of shoreline, catching fish is a lot like finding that perfect waterfront property to buy, you gotta know where to go....

You haven't heard from me the last couple of weeks because I took a much needed vacation.  I went to Costa Rica where I had to sample their fishing.  I enjoyed the fresh water fishing for gouloupe and rainbow bass in Lake Arenal.  You can actually fish and watch the active volcanos at the same time.  From there we went to the coast and caught waboo, dorado, and tuna.  We only  fished 5 to 10 miles offshore, what a break from running 50 miles off our shore.

Enought of that!  The fishing on Clark's HIll is ready to explode.  I went out on the lake Wednesday to do some scouting.  I saw two guys fishing from the bank with small minnows.  They had a cooler full of fish.  I was in the S.C. Little River.  I continued until the river bends sharply to the left and get real shallow just before Mill Creek.  There, I found my own group of crappies.  It was 15 feet deep against a shallow area.  They are stacked and ready for the water to warm a few more degrees.  When it does crappie as well as black bass, we'll go on a feeding frenzy.

Remember,  with 1200 miles of shoreline, catching fish is a lot like finding that perfect waterfront property to buy, you gotta know where to go....