Best Fishing Spots in South Carolina

South Carolina fishes warm and fishes all year. The whole state sits in the warm-temperate band, nothing freezes, and the calendar turns on heat rather than cold: spring and autumn are the strong stretches while summer confines useful fishing to the hours around dawn. Almost all mapped water is impounded, much of it in the large Santee Cooper system and the Savannah River chain, so the fishing means flooded creek channels, standing timber and levels that move with rainfall and power generation. Elevation runs from 10 metres below sea level to 905 metres in the upstate, a modest range that nonetheless separates the cooler mountain corner from the coastal plain. The coast adds estuary and inshore fishing under separate licensing. Our South Carolina coverage runs to 1,027 waters in 45 counties. Reservoirs dominate the list, followed by natural lakes. The biggest entry is Lake Marion, covering some 125 sq miles. On long-run averages, the cold end sits near 43°F and the warm end near 80°F. The most frequently logged fish are bluegill, redbreast sunfish, largemouth bass and margined madtom....