Seed Lake Records
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Lake Seed
Seed Lake is a small 240-acre mountain reservoir with 13 miles of shoreline located in Rabun County in the northeast corner of Georgia. It is the second lake in a series of six lakes on the Tallulah River. The series begins with Lake Burton as the northernmost lake, followed by lakes Seed, Rabun, Tallulah Falls, Tugalo and Yonah. These are Georgia Power Co. lakes, built to generate hydroelectric energy. Seed and these other northeast Georgia mountain lakes offers some fishing opportunities unique to Georgia, where anglers can catch trophy walleye and yellow perch along with traditional species such as bass, crappie and bream.
Lake Seed Resources
Northeast Georgia Mountain Lake Articles
Darryl Stephens was fishing at Lake Burton with his wife on July 12 when he reeled in a 5-lb., 8-oz. rainbow trout, which creates a first-place tie for biggest rainbow ever recorded from this north Georgia reservoir. The other record trout from Burton was caught on July 24, 2016. The husband-and-wife fishing duo got on…
Trent Thomason, of Toccoa, has been going back to Lake Yonah for the past three years trying to catch the record largemouth for the lake. On June 23, he finally accomplished the feat when he landed a 6-lb., 11-oz. bass. Trent said he goes to Yonah every Father’s Day weekend with his dad to fish,…
Not many people can say they have caught a lake record fish as an experienced angler, but 7-year-old Camden Rinckey can go ahead and check that off his bucket list. His 11-lb., 14-oz. brown trout is now the largest brown ever recorded from Lake Burton. Camden was up before the crack of dawn with his…
Wildcat Creek has always been a popular destination for trout anglers. This small stream that runs through a portion of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Rabun County is stocked seasonally with trout and has offered two primitive campgrounds for a fee of only $10 a night. However, a short while back, GON received a phone call from…
Rocky points and brushpiles full of quality spots and largemouth feeding on shad and blueback herring. No, not Lake Lanier, but a little farther northeast at Lake Burton. Located near the mountain community of Clayton, Lake Burton produced the state-record spotted bass, an 8-lb., 2-oz. monster, in February of 2005. Winter is a great time…
Lake Seed Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 14-lbs., 4-ozs. | Johnny Appling | 03/13/2009 |
| Brown Trout | 13-lbs., 8.32-ozs. | Ricky Vickery | 06/05/2005 |
| Rainbow Trout | 6-lbs., 3-ozs. | Larry Brooks | 08/28/2005 |
| Brook Trout | 3-lbs., 9-ozs. | Charlton Trippe | 04/23/2006 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 14-ozs. | Carol Farmer | 07/09/2000 |
| Yellow Perch | 2-lbs., 4-ozs. | Cliff Saville | 03/04/2013 |
| Walleye | 9-lbs., 7-ozs. | Larry Brewer | 12/15/2006 |
| Channel Catfish | 21-lbs. | Ernest Cruine | 05/17/2010 |
| Chain Pickerel | 3-lbs., 5-ozs. | Zach Chadwick | 5/29/2023 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 8.7-ozs. | Jeff Smith | 11/05/24 |