Thread: Newbie help

I have never fished Hartwell, but here's a link to a thread that helps you determine where to start looking for crappie at certain water surface temperatures. And what methods to try that may work best.

https://www.crappie.com/crappie/arch...appie-degrees/

Good luck.

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The Seneca arm of the lake has many places that hold crappie this time of the year. With last weeks rains I don't know what conduction the lake is in especially up the tributaries that feed the main river. Martin, Coneross, 18 Mile and 12 mile. I fish all of these and I don't mind fishing in hard stained waters but muddy waters is a different beast. Look for standing timber in the main river and some of these tributaries have standing timber but not much so look for brush piles and check around the bridges.
The best thing you can do as a new crappie fisherman is to build your own brush piles. Set them in 25' depths to less in the 5' depths. Crappie will use them, some right away and some may take awhile for the crappie to use. This will give you places to fish all the time. After Christmas the Army Corps of Engineers and NDR will drop Christmas trees at many of the ramps to be used for building brush piles. Do some studying on building piles and spend some time reading some of the old reports here on the SC page. You will gain a ton of knowledge from some of the best fisherman here in the upstate and also about others lakes in the state, NC and Ga lakes.

Good luck and let me welcome you to Crappie.com
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