Fishing Report For Lake Greenwood, SC

By Rick Seaman

April 24, 2025

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Fishing Report Lake Greenwood, SC

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Popular Fish Species Lake Greenwood, SC

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

With the water temperature in the mid-60's, bass are active in shallow water - feeding and spawning. In addition to worms and jigs, anglers are now catching nice bass on buzzbaits, crankbaits, vibrating jigs and jerkbaits. Virtually all the pockets on the lake have bass, with slightly higher concentrations on the northern banks. Finicky bass are being caught on stick worms, rigged wacky style, which often fools the bigger bass..

Black Crappie

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good

Crappie fishing has been quit good at Lake Greenwood throughout the colder months, and is getting even better now that Spring is here. This is the prime time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow coves to spawn. Docks, bridge pilings, brush piles, wood and vegetation are all good places to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. Black crappie tend to dominate here, and crappie between 1 and 2 pounds are plentiful. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Anglers are reporting good success using fish finders and forward facing sonar to locate schools of crappie, which often stack vertically around cover.

Striped Bass

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Reported by many to be among the top striped bass fishing lakes in South Carolina, Lake Greenwood continues to deliver the goods. Stripers are being caught on live blueback herring and gizzard shad. Swimbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits and spoons are also catching these big fish. Being successful at fishing for stripers begins with locating schools of bait and stripers. Fish finders are a big help in locating these roaming schools. Live bait and cut bait are both very effective here.

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Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, redbreast sunfish, redear sunfish, warmouth, white perch, yellow perch, striped bass and chain pickerel at Lake Greenwood in South Carolina.

Lake Greenwood is an 11,000-acre reservoir with 212 miles of shoreline to explore in search of the many fish species in Greenwood Lake. Quality bass and crappie, plus monster catfish, striped bass, perch, pickerel and several species of sunfish all thrive here in good numbers.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".