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.
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Fisherman Paul Turman lives in Hoschton. He is a transplant to Georgia from Ohio, where he grew up catching walleye and yellow perch from Lake Erie. When he moved to Georgia, he went to school on the perch (and walleye) in Georgia’s mountain lakes, and he has been catching them for 30 years. You may…
The clear, cool water of Lake Seed is growing some Alaska-sized brown trout. For the second time in just over a year, the lake record for brown trout has been broken. The latest record-holder is Ricky Vickery of Commerce. On Sunday, June 5, Ricky was on the lake fishing for trout with Cliff Murphy of…
On June 22, 2004 at approximately 11:30 a.m., DNR Ranger First Class Craig Fulghum received a call from a Georgia Power Co. employee who monitors security cameras installed at Yonah Dam. Yonah Dam is located at the upper end of the Tugaloo River above Lake Hartwell in Stephens County. The employee said he was watching…
The heaviest spotted bass ever caught, weighed on certified scales and verified by state biologists is a Lake Burton fatty that pulled the scales to 8-lbs., 2-ozs. Wayne Holland, of Blairsville, caught the Burton spot on Feb. 23, 2005. The official Georgia state record, and Lake Burton record, measured 21 1/2 inches long, but it’s…
A 2.70-lb. black crappie set a new lake record for Lake Burton, but it only placed third in Week 1 of the 1994 GON Fishing Contest with a score of 83.1 percent. Tom Cook caught the slab on March 7. The GON Fishing Contest had weekly winners, with each species of fish having a benchmark…
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 |