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Where to go, what to see, where to park and what happens to all the fish at the major four-day fishing tournament on Lake Murray.
Lake Murray touches Lexington, Newberry, Richland and Saluda counties, as it covers 48,579 acres and has 620 miles of shoreline, DNR said. The Dreher Shoals Dam from the air on Wednesday, June 26 ...
The 2025 Bass Pro Tour, the seventh season of professional bass fishing’s most competitive circuit, will host a four-day competition at Lake Murray — The Jewel of South Carolina — from March ...
The All-Tackle world record Black Bass was a largemouth that was caught at Montgomery Lake, GA by George Perry, weighing in at 22 lbs. 4 oz. Perry's record fish, which some consider the "Holy Grail" of all freshwater sport fishing records, was finally challenged by Japanese angler Manabu Kurita on July 22, 2009.
The first ever B.A.S.S. Federation tournament was held in June 1967 on Beaver Lake, Arkansas. A total of 106 anglers from thirteen different states competed. In that All-American Bass Tournament, Scott charged a $100 entry fee with a chance to win $2,000 and a trip to Acapulco, Mexico. The winner of this first tournament was Stan Sloan.
Lake Murray itself is named after the project's chief engineer, William S. Murray. The Saluda Dam is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 220 feet (67 m) high. Lake Murray is 41 miles (66 km) long, and 14 miles (23 km) wide at its widest point. At the time when the lake was finished, it was the world's largest man-made reservoir. [2]
The Bassmaster Elite Series, the Super Bowl of bass fishing, has launched on Lake Murray. But you don’t have to care about fish for that to be a big deal for the Midlands.
Micropterus is a genus of North American freshwater fish collectively known as the black bass, which belong to the sunfish family Centrarchidae of order Centrarchiformes.They are sometimes erroneously called "black trout", but the name trout more correctly refers to certain potamodromous members of the family Salmonidae (order Salmoniformes).