Lake Greenwood is a great bream lake with an incredible amount of shallow-water cover for bream. The bedding action in May is sensational, but you can catch limits of bream from this lake whether bream are bedding or not.

The bedding fish certainly average very good size, but sometimes a bit of culling is required to get a limit of quality fish. But when bream fishing, catching lots of fish is one of the major attractions for most of us anyway.

As with Wateree, Greenwood is the type of lake that can really get a kid hooked on fishing. Fishing the numerous shallow coves, most of which have lots of shallow-water cover in the form of brush, stumps, logs and other debris, you can find plenty of places where bream will congregate.

Lake Greenwood is also ideal fly rod and popping bug water. Some locals prefer using a green sponge spider imitation that slowly sinks as it loads up with water. This lure is lethal on the bigger bream.

All of the Savannah River lakes are productive for bream fishing, but Lake Richard B. Russell does seem to have an affinity for producing plenty of bream. The abundance of woody cover is certainly one factor.

During May, look for most of the bream on Lake Russell to be up the creeks or in coves and pockets. Later on, the prime places will migrate toward the larger creeks and the main river channel.

There's an abundance of good-looking bream water, with lots of wood cover in the shallows. One key to success is to keep moving until you hit a bed of bream. You can anchor and catch some fish, but moving and searching will be your best bet here.

Often overlooked because of the clear water, Lake Jocassee is also a prime bream lake. This clearwater lake doesn't produce the numbers of bream that some lakes boast, but the size of the fish is great. The fish are usually found somewhat deeper than on most lakes, but they'll be spawning in May and in reasonably shallow water. If you use light tackle, make long casts and stay quiet, you can enjoy sensational bream bed fishing on Lake Jocassee.

There are some excellent bream fisheries in some smaller, but still substantial, lakes as well.

Lake Warren is a 300-acre SCDNR-managed lake in Hampton County. While there is good crappie and bass fishing in this lake, it is an excellent bream lake, and May is a prime time to work the bream beds here. Lake Warren does have a boat ramp, fishing pier and is handicap accessible. Outboard motors up to 10 horsepower are allowed. The lake is located on County Road 41, between S.C. Highway 363 and U.S. Highway 601, southeast of Hampton.