If youre visiting McCormick there's several creeks to fish....Soap, English, Little River, SC and it's tributaries to name a few. Best thing I'd recommend is pick you up a good lake map and plan areas to "scout". I never venture farther than Little River on SC and Ga side. There's a lot of creeks on both sides of the lake back towards the beginning of the lake to fish too if you wanna travel. I'd say anywhere you can find stained water is where you'll catch 'em, but since I don't fish brush maybe that isn't all that necessary. That's a start. Good luck to ya.