Fishing Report For Lake Moultrie, SC
By Rick Seaman
April 3, 2025
Fishing Reports
Popular Fish Species Lake Moultrie, SC
Blue Catfish
Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good
There is a good reason to fish for big blue catfish here. They are plentiful and grow to monster size. The state record, over 113 pounds, was caught here. Catfish around 20 lbs to 50 lbs are pretty common. Fishing for blue catfish here is productive drifting bait in 25 to 40 feet deep water, especially along the river channels, in slow-flowing current. Road beds, creek channels and rocky points are all good places to begin. Use live bait, cut bait or chicken pieces with a slip sinker, or Carolina rig setup. Planer boards can help maintain good depth.
Striped Bass
Current Report: Very Good
Outlook: Very Good To Excellent
Early this winter has been an awesome season for catching big stripers. Now that Spring is arriving, fishing is picking up again. The lake has an abundance of threadfin shad and gizzard shad. This forage, plus slot limits, has allowed the striper population to grow significantly. In Summer, locals report stripers chasing bait to the surface, providing some exciting topwater action. Being successful at fishing for stripers is a matter of locating schools of bait, and wolf packs of stripers are likely to be nearby. Fish finders are a big help in locating roaming schools of both bait and predators. Swimbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, spoons, live bait and cut bait are all effective here.
Largemouth Bass
Current Report: Poor To Fair To Good To Very Good To Excellent
Outlook: Poor To Fair To Good To Very Good To Excellent
In March, a national bass tournament on Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion was won with 20 fish weighing an average of over 4 pounds each. A spinnerbait was the primary lure. So the lake has plenty of quality bass, and locals are catching both quantity and quality as well. Other popular lures catching bass here include worms, jerkbaits, jigs and crankbaits .Whenever the bass are finicky, many locals report a stick worm, rigged wacky style, has been triggering bites.
Fishing Video
Fish species to fish for...
Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, redbreast sunfish, redear sunfish, warmouth, white bass, white perch, yellow perch, striped bass and chain pickerel at Lake Moultrie in South Carolina.
Lake Moultrie is a 60,000-acre lake with 210 miles of shoreline. It is one of two lakes that make up the Santee Cooper Reservoir. It offers fishing for bass, stripers, perch, crappie, pickerel, catfish, white bass and numerous species of sunfish. A fishing pier is open to the public, for fishing from shore.
Primary fish species to catch
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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".
Contact Information
Lake Moultrie
Angel's Landing & Marina
1556 Viper Rd
Pineville, SC 29468
800 315-3087
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Lake Moultrie, South Carolina Report
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Go fishing at Lake Moultrie to catch largemouth bass, stripers, perch, crappie, pickerel, catfish, sunfish and white bass in southeast South Carolina.
