It's been a very long time since I did any fishing in Lake Waccama. I've got a cousin and Uncle who live at the lake, but they weren't much on inviting folks to go fishing with them. I don't think they fish much anymore. However, the few times I have fished the lake, we caught plenty of bream and even a few bass. We did prettly well once fishing for bream in waders on the edge of the lilly pads. I can't speak for the crappie. Also, I can't remember for sure but I think there's another boat ramp towards the other side of the lake from the state park

 

I heard that lake is packed full of gators. I also heard from one of the locals that they move the gators that get into Lake White, and place them in Lake Waccamaw. I am not sure if that is true, but I saw a gator floating on top of the lake when I was driving to the boat ramp. It is interesting that you were fishing in it with waders on. I was also suprised to see how shallow Lake White and Lake Waccamaw were for being decent size lakes. When I go out there again I will work on providing street names to the public boat ramp I found if no one post a reply with better directions to them on here. Thanks for the reply Muddy Water.

 

There have always been gators at the state park end/river mouth, but they rarely seem to venture to the rest of the lake. My Grandparents had a farm near Bolton and when I was young, we used to swim in the lake all the time and never worried about them. Of course that was years ago and the population may have grown considerably and spread since then.
Both White Lake and Lake Waccama are what is know as "Carolina Bays". There are hundreds of them scattered along the south-east U.S. coastal plane. They are quite noticable on aerial photos. Most are just swampy oval shaped depressions. Some, like White and Waccama, Singletary, etc are deep enough to hold water. Scientist still aren't sure how they were formed. One theory is meteor craters.

 

Google maps has good resolution there; you could find it that way if necessary. It would be interesting veiwing anyway. I know I have scoped out the whole shoreline on high resolution. I didn't count the docks though.

 

There is one at the intersection of Wooded Acres Rd. and Canal Cove Rd on the northeast side.

 

I'll reply to this older post just in case anyone needs to know.
The second boat ramp is near the State Park on Bella Coola road. To get there: Take Jefferson St just before Hwy 214 meets the Hwy 74 bypass. Jefferson will take you almost to the water. Just before the road turns sharply to the right and becomes Lakeshore Drive, Bella Coola is on the left and is marked with a sign to the state park. The boat ramp is about a mile or so just after you cross the bridge over big creek.
There are usually very few people there...usually four to six vehicles. Friday (May 2nd, '08) when I put in, there was only one vehicle. The ramp is concrete and pretty nice and goes into a small pond. You have to drive a short distance out to Big Creek and take a left to the lake. Warning! At the mouth of Big Creek is a sandbar that is very shallow. As soon as you exit the creek stay to the right and make a big counter clockwise loop out into the lake.
Lake Waccamaw is a shallow lake, usally 4ft around the perimeter and 7 to 8 ft out in the lake. There are a couple of deeper areas with submerged logs that are good to bottom fish bass. When the fish bite there, they bite and VICE VERSA!
I hope this helps.

 

thanks for bringing this back up omar, as I am planning on going to waccamaw pretty soon. I have caught lots of nice fish fishing the reed beds with a culprit tomato worm. As soon as the mayflies start laying their eggs on the reeds, you can start fishing there and normally have pretty good luck.

 

Omarmung - Thanks for the update and welcome to NC Angler!

 

where on the lake is the deeper water with the logs... ? also are there catfish in that lake right on?