Thread: Newbie from SC/NC

Welcome to the forum. I looked up Boyd's Mill Pond. Looks like a nice place. Congrats on retirement home.

Thanks...we like it because it's quiet, not crowded, and pretty much no restrictions. The lake has boating limits (15hp/no pontoons/no PWC) unless you own waterfront property, then you can pretty much have anything.

have not fished Boyd's Mill Pond in years !!! but I will tell you this it has some GOOD BASS in it for sure !!!
and some nice crappie fishing too !!! I have caught some nice fish out of there !!!! Congrats on the house building and Welcome to Laurens County !!! and most of all Welcome to Crappie>com !!!!

Originally Posted by forever young

Greetings all! I currently live in NC but in the process of building our retirement home in SC. Haven't had much time to fish while building the house but we're waterfront on Boyd's Mill Pond in Laurens county.
Anybody else fish the mill pond?

Haven’t been on Boyd’s Mill in a long time. You’ve got a lot of good water around you. I live a couple of miles up the road from Boyd’s. Welcome to SC.


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Originally Posted by Adair

Haven’t been on Boyd’s Mill in a long time. You’ve got a lot of good water around you. I live a couple of miles up the road from Boyd’s. Welcome to SC.


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I'm an Asheville native, and although Asheville is "interesting" now, the folks in SC are like they used to be up here. Everyone that we've met treat us like we're a relative!
We're on deeper water on the mill pond, 2 lots so we have 2 docks, one floater and one rigid. Rigid is the only one on the lake that has a flag pole, if old glory is flying then we're there, feel free to stop by
and say howdy!

Welcome to CDC, its good to have you join us here. Boyds Mill is a fun place to fish from my kayak and have fished it within the last year mainly using a fly rod fishing for gills. I have fished that lake for many years and you have to watch out for moving sand banks in the back waters and water depth while fishing the back water as it is a working dam and when they are pulling water you will see sand banks above the water line. The lake has cats, bass, few crappie on the smaller size the last time I fished for them there and has a good bream population. You have Lake Rabon up the road from you toward Laurens that is a good lake for smaller crafts with small motors. It is a permit lake through LCWSC and their office is in Laurens where you can buy the permit (at time you will catch someone at the lake office) The lake has a better crappie population and is a bigger lake. It also has all the normal species of fish.

Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

Welcome to CDC, its good to have you join us here. Boyds Mill is a fun place to fish from my kayak and have fished it within the last year mainly using a fly rod fishing for gills. I have fished that lake for many years and you have to watch out for moving sand banks in the back waters and water depth while fishing the back water as it is a working dam and when they are pulling water you will see sand banks above the water line. The lake has cats, bass, few crappie on the smaller size the last time I fished for them there and has a good bream population. You have Lake Rabon up the road from you toward Laurens that is a good lake for smaller crafts with small motors. It is a permit lake through LCWSC and their office is in Laurens where you can buy the permit (at time you will catch someone at the lake office) The lake has a better crappie population and is a bigger lake. It also has all the normal species of fish.

I've caught a few flatheads and channel cat, biggest crappie I caught from our dock was 15.5"...pretty good...but most were small. I enjoy catching the bream on popping bugs.
We have several kayaks down there. They put in a new kayak/canoe access point about 6 miles up river on highway 76 in 2017 I believe. We've done that trip several times.
Got our pontoon stuck in the sand on the upper end of the lake, and that was at full pool! I only go up there in my little Gheenoe and the kayaks now LOL!
Haven't done any bass fishing, but I hear that they are hard to catch due to the large population of shad in the lake, we've seen schools of shad.

I hear it's full of crappie. You'll be in crappie heaven between your new home, Rabin, and Greenwood. Welcome to SC!!

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