Yes to all.
Run a search on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie, SC. You'll get the picture. If I left right now I"d be in the water in less than an hour.
As to the WD...one of those things a guy told me one day when I was fishing in the reservoir. It works. I don't know why, or how. He said, "chunks of the 'meat' out of Alpo and spray it."