Thicketty Mountain Lake Fishing near Mayo, South Carolina

• Overview

  This water sits in Cherokee County, South Carolina. It sits at 932 feet above sea level. At roughly 3 acres, the whole thing is within casting reach of a single walk. It is a small entry by Cherokee County standards. Some 4.8 miles away sits Mayo, the nearest settlement. Cowpens lies 6.7 miles off, Gaffney another 8 miles. You are close to a county edge here; who manages the access can change within a short drive.

• Where to Fish on Thicketty Mountain Lake

  Depth is not on record here, which means reading the ground instead. The arms fish better than the open middle whenever the water is up. A reservoir gives you a hard edge, a shelf, and not much else. Public occurrence data for Cherokee County names striped jumprock, flat bullhead, redbreast sunfish and seagreen darter. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Treat Thicketty Mountain Lake as a water to read rather than to cover.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Seasonal averages run from 40°F in January up to 78°F in July. It fishes twelve months of the year. The first and last hours carry the summer; the middle is slow. February into May fishes hardest as the water warms. Thicketty Mountain Lake runs to its own calendar within the local pattern.

• Tackle & Baits

  Whether the bank is open is not something our records settle. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. For the catfish, fish bottom baits into the deeper holes and let them sit. Where access is informal, keep it that way by behaving. Night access is frequently treated as a separate matter. Scruggs Lake sits 2.1 miles off and takes the overflow. None of that is settled for Thicketty Mountain Lake in what we hold.