Lakes Hartwell and Greenwood are about an hour drive for me. Going to Lake Russell, my favorite is about 1 and 1/2 hours. Driving to Clarks Hill is going to take close to 2 hours. The Santee Cooper lakes are about 3 hours away and with the price of gas these days I don't get there too ofton.
I recently got hooked on a water shed lake about 15 minutes from the house. It is open sunup to sundown and is restricted to 16 foot or less boats with 10 HP or less motors. I just bought a 14 ft flat bottom with a 9.9 Honda 4 stroke so I can fish this lake. It is 546 acres and the lake record crappie is 4 Lb. 2 Oz. May have to get over there about Friday.
Good question.
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