While spotted bass can certainly be caught in the rivers, Rob is having the best success pursuing them around rock points or rock bluffs in the main, lower lake. If you target points first thing you can find areas where spotted bass pull up overnight to feed on herring. Right now aggressive largemouth will chase big moving baits. The sweet spot is often in 30-40 feet. Football jigs, blade baits and bulkier 5/16 ounce Ned rigs will all work. Water temperature is a funny thing on Lake Jocassee, and out on the main lake by the dam water temperatures are around 79 or 80 degrees. Sam’s boat has caught trout (and bass) trolling spoons 30-50 feet deep in the Whitewater River channel, and for the foreseeable future spoons, minnow lures like Rapalas, and live bait should all be very effective. Dropping water levels seem to have changed the bite, and as a lot of the fish have left the banks they seem to be eating more crawfish and less bream. The best pattern has been following the 30-45 feet contour line where they are marking small groups of 2 or 3 fish. Fish are starting to move into the front section of creeks, and as temperatures really drop the next step will be to look from the mouths to halfway back in the rivers and creeks. The trout bite has gotten a lot tougher on Lake Jocassee, and Guide Sam Jones (864-280-9056) reports that the last few days the trout have not been cooperative for almost anyone. For right now fish are closer to the big water, but when temperatures finally cool he will look for them to move into the mouths and then about halfway back in the rivers and creeks. January is supposed to be float-n-fly month for bass on Lake Jocassee, but Guide Rob McComas (828-674-5041) reports that with water temperatures unusually warm that bite has not turned on yet – if it ever will this year. Water clarity is very high. Lake Jocassee is at 98.2% of full pool, and water temperatures range from the mid-70s to mid-80s. Read now. The water remains very clear. Surface temperatures are running about 57-58 degrees. Morning surface temperatures have cooled to about 72 or 73, and with little rainfall the lake is as clear as it gets. The trout fishing has truthfully been a little slow, and many days the bass and small catfish have been what kept things interesting. Sometimes they will be on the bottom at that depth and sometimes they will be suspended over 120 or more feet. Join AHQ Premier for unlimited Free Shipping & access to the AHQ Report. With water temperatures fairly cold it is that time of year where the fish can be pretty much anywhere, and they are scattered from the backs of creeks out to the big water. Morning surface temperatures have cooled to about 76 or 77 in the big water, and clarity is normal (very clear). Lake Jocassee is at 98.4% of full pool, and water temperatures had hit 80 but are now in the high-70s around the dam. Surface temperatures are down to about 54 degrees. Learn more. This pattern fades out after 9 or 10 when the bait goes back to deep water, but in “limit holes” in 20 feet of water or less you can catch a bunch of spots on spinnerbaits, swimbaits and flukes. Generally the bass are coming in the same general depth range but a little shallower at 60-80 feet. Click here for 30 day free trial! Jocassee Reports is where you can post your fishing reports, photos and ask for tips on fishing Lake Jocassee. While they did have some hits at the edge of the Whitewater River they have almost exclusively been fishing at the dam. The spotted bass have often been in 50 plus feet. While 65 feet has been as deep as most bass fisherman are going to look, Guide Sam Jones (864-280-9056) reports that he recently caught a smallmouth in 104 feet and they have caught lots of 1-3 pound spots in 70 feet! Spoons seem to be working the best and while they are picking up a few spotted bass and catfish the carp aren’t bothering them anymore. Sometimes they will be on the bottom at that depth and sometimes they will be suspended over 120 or more feet. The bass fishing on Lake Jocassee is starting to pick up again, and Joe Anders of Easley reports that they won a tournament last week wi However, some fish are also starting to transition into more of a September pattern where they will set up on deeper points and ledges in 25-65 feet of water. In the evening fish will come shallow and hit Spooks and buzz frogs fished around the banks, and the clear water means that they are willing to move a long way up the water column to take a topwater. Trout fishing has been pretty good on Lake Jocassee, and in the Jocassee Outdoors Center tournament about a week ago (in the snow!) They also seem to have pushed to the mouth of rivers. Lake Jocassee is at 99.0 of full pool and the lake is very clear. The bass fishing remains strong on Lake Jocassee, but Guide Rob McComas (828-674-5041) reports that fish aren’t doing exactly what he would expect at this time of year. Morning surface temperatures are in the lower 60s and clarity is normal. The basic pattern is to run as many laydowns as possible, eliminating any cover where the end of the tree is not in at least 15 feet of water. There are still a lot of spotted bassmixed in with the trout, also in the 70-90 foot range, running up to some nice 3+ pound fish. Still there are some occasional big fish being caught like the 24-inch, 6-pound brown shown below, and most all of the trout seem to be in the 100-120 foot range.
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