Broadway Lake - Anderson County - 300 acre lake.  Fish include bass, crappie, and catfish.

Devils Fork State Park - Salem, SC - this 622 acre park provides the only public access to Lake Jocassee.  Full campground amenities and modern villas highlight the park.  The park is popular with families, fishermen, scuba divers, and boaters.  (864) 944-2639

Firelake - 1897 Cheddar Rd. Belton, SC - Paintball, skateboarding, and catfishing on 42 acre facility.  (864) 847-4200

J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Lake - one of the southeast's largest and most popular recreation lakes.  Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bordering Georgia and South Carolina on the Savannah, Broad, and Little Rivers.  Thurmond Lake is nearly 71,100 acres of water and a shoreline of 1200 miles.  Fish include crappie, bream, largemouth-hybrid-striped bass.

Lake Hartwell State Recreation Area - Fair Play, SC - a 680 acre park on Lake Hartwell.  With lake access, park store, hiking, camping, and unique one-room camper cabins with bunk beds, porch, and electricity.  Facilities are nearby.  Fish include crappie, catfish, largemouth-striped-hybrid bass, and bream.  The Corps of Engineers and South Carolina DNR maintain 23 fish attractors on Lake Hartwell.  The artificial reefs made of Christmas trees and other artificial habitat structures attract large schools of fish, especially crappie.(864) 972-3352

Lake Keowee - is located mostly in Oconee County but it extends into Pickens with 18,500 acres of water and a 300 mile shoreline from the Keowee and Little Rivers.   Fish include white-smallmouth-largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie, and threadfin shad.

Lake Jocassee - Salem, SC - is a 7,565 acre man-made lake in the SC mountains.  Waterfalls cascade directly into the lake and is surrounded by mountains.  A variety of fish are found in these waters, including rainbow brown trout, white and smallmouth bass, bluegill, threadfin shad, and sunfish.  Public access is through Devils Fork State Park.  (704) 382-8356

Lake Marion - Eutawville, SC - is the largest lake in SC, covering 110,000 acres.  It is known for its big fish and abundant willdlife.  (843) 761-4068  Fish include catfish, crappie, striped and largemouth bass, and bream.

Oconee State Park - Mountain Rest, SC - this 1165 acre historic park rests deep in the Blue Ridge foothills, with picturesque hiking trails, cabins, and campgrounds.  The park's fishing lakes offer bass and bream, and the woods are full of wildlife.  (864) 638-5353

FISHING LICENSES

South Carolina and Georgia have a reciprocal license agreement; residents of both states may fish anywhere on Lake Hartwell, Lake Russell, and Thurmond Lake (from boat or shoreline) or its tailwaters with a license from either state.  Residents of other states must purchase a nonresident license from either South Carolina or Georgia.  Fishermen with resident or nonresident Georgia licenses do need a Georgia Trout Stamp if they fish for or have trout in their possession.  Creel limits for Thurmond Lake may vary from those elsewhere within the states.  For more information on fishing licenses, click here.