Earls Lake Fishing Guide, Greenville County, South Carolina

• Overview

  Earls Lake is one of the Greenville County waters in South Carolina. The water sits 899 feet up. At 3 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. On size it sits at the modest end of our Greenville County list. Nearest town is Mauldin, 1.6 miles off. Further out sit Five Forks (3.9 miles) and Simpsonville (5 miles). The boundary is close enough to be worth checking before you fish.

• Where to Fish on Earls Lake

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Rip-rap along the wall holds fish that the open bank never does. Look for where the old bank line still shows under the surface. Public occurrence data for Greenville County names bluegill, redbreast sunfish and seagreen darter. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Fish Earls Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  On the long-term average, July reads 79°F and January reads 41°F. Temperatures stay workable through the cold season. Late winter and spring fish steadiest here. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to fish here. That shapes the year on Earls Lake. Long dry spells drop the level and concentrate them.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing in our records says who may fish here. There is somewhere to leave the car, half a mile off. Picnic facilities are recorded some 0.9 miles out. A small crankbait along the drop and a worm in the thick stuff cover the bass. Rules differ from one water to the next round here. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. The nearest alternative is Huntington Lake, 2.7 miles out. Treat Earls Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.