First Jocassee Trip This Year and It Was Memorable

3.25.20

Nancy and I headed to Jo and fished from around 9 to 2.

The water temp was in the high 50's.

It was a beautiful day on the pond and we caught ten with a lot of quality.

I caught my third best LM ever with this beauty that ate a june bug TRD in about 3 feet of water up Whitewater.

We also scored on a very nice spot and Nancy caught a big largemouth on the TRD
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A I write this they have shut down all the public ramps in SC.  This could be the first and only trip to this marvelous fishery.

Nice Big Spot Out of a Loon Free For All!

3.19.2020

Fished from 8-12 this morn with my KA for the upcoming tourney. 
We fished from the Keowee Town Landing to the back of Crow Creek. 
The skies were foggy and the water temp in the mid sixties and flat calm. 
We worked the kinks out if our lines and practiced fishing the Ned rig near the ramp. We caught 2 there near the ramp. Both were around 14”. And the first one had “derp” lips again. 

We started fished up crow creek and landed a couple more on the Ned rig and a hulastick. They were on gently sloping bank near trees. 

As we were running up the creek a flotilla of loons were working bait. We eased in the middle of them and started casting a Ned rig and swimming it through the turmoil. 
We picked up one 19.5” spot and a 18” spot doing this. The 18” was my KA partner’s PB. 
We fished long points and cuts towards the back of Crow Creek and caught more in the 13-15” range. 
We hit a slightly sloping clay bank and my partner caught his first whopper plopper spotted bass. A solid 17” fish
All in all a good morning. We counted 15 fish landed and missed several more.  All on soft plastics except the WP fish. 
What didn’t work. JT 95 topwater.

Headed Up The River For The First Time Since Fall

3.15.2020

Solo trip today from noon til 5. 
Fished the river from Keowee town ramp to the Jocassee dam. 

It started raining when I splashed the boat so I hung around the ramp til the rain decided to leave. No bites near the ramp. 

Headed north and caught a mag spot that measured 19” at my first stop where crow creek enters the river. JT 95 was the ticket. 



Continued up the river to the island in front of High Falls ramp and caught 6 there. One on a shad rap in a tree top. All others on a hulastick in the deal color. All these fish were in the 13-15” range. They had shad pinned to a wind blown bank. 

Continued above rt 11 and caught my second biggest fish a plump 17” spot on the hulastick on a long tapered point near deep water. 

Went further up the river and caught a 15” spot on the hula stick off a shady dock near a rocky point. 

They were pulling the water hard up to Jocassee so I came back down and hit another dock near Keowee town and bagged another 15” spot on the hulastick. 

Water temp below 11 was 64 degrees. Above was 58 ish. 

Clear skies slight breeze. 

What didn’t work was jerkbait and lobbing big swimbaits over downed trees.

Little Slower. Patience Is Good.

3.4.20

Fished the first Keowee Angler tournament of the year.

Overcast day with temps around 60.  Water temp the same or a little higher.

We fished the back of Crow Creek and after chasing some schooling fish concentrated on throwing the Hulastikz on the bank and dragging it out.

I caught largemouth and spots doing that and my partner finally scored his two fish late and we ended up with 75.75 inches.  No whoppers but 12 came to the boat including 4 non keepers.

Coming back to Keowee Town ramp I saw some fish schooling.  Dropped my partner off and headed back out to see if I can get some topwater spots.

Scored on 2 and this big spot that really ate the JT95 way down in her gills.  Manage to get her off and she swam away but it was a bloody mess.



The fish are starting to school.  Should be fun for a few weeks now.