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Lake Seminole

Lake Seminole is a 37,500-acre reservoir located in the southwest corner of Georgia along the Florida and Alabama borders. Seminole is known for its great bass fishing and bream fishing. The often shallow waters of Seminole contains lots of hydrilla. The grasssbeds make navigation difficult in many areas, but fish and ducks love the hydrilla. Seminole is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impoundment. The Chattahoochee and Flint rivers feed the lake. Below the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, which impounds the lake, the Apalachicola River forms. Fish in Lake Seminole also include crappie, catfish, striped bass and other species. Alligators and snakes are very common in the lake, which is also known for its good duck hunting for divers including canvasbacks and ringnecks.

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Lake Seminole Fishing Report: April 7, 2025

By Craig James | April 7, 2025

Seminole: Level: Full at 77.5. Temp: 69-74 degrees. Clarity: Spring Creek is clear and the rivers are lightly stained. After a nice warming trend the last several days, Lake Seminole is primed and ready for a red-hot bite this week. With the full moon coming Saturday night, each day we edge closer to the weekend, the action should get better and better. Here’s a breakdown of what you can expect on the lake this week from local guide Ryan Higgins. Bass: “Bass all over Seminole are in all three stages of the spawn right now, but with the full moon a few days away, that’s going to send a huge wave of spawners up shallow this weekend,” said Ryan. Expect spawning fish to congregate heavily in areas like the Sealy Flats, Grassy Flats and the ponds around Fish Pond Drain. Ryan says a wacky-rigged Senko or a 6th Sense Congo…

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Lake Seminole Articles

Lake Seminole Catfishing With A U.S. Marine

I’ve always been proud of my nephew, Kennon. Being the son of my twin brother, Corey, he was right between us on many of our outdoor excursions. He has shown to be very active and fearless, hunting everything from ducks to alligators. I remember on one occasion, while I was wading through a chilly swamp…

Lake Seminole Bass Early To Bed

The typical Georgia bass angler isn’t thinking about prespawn patterns for January fishing. But Lake Seminole bass are well ahead of other Georgia lakes, and as the New Year begins, they are already in a hungry, prespawn mood. You can take advantage of this early prespawn mode to catch numbers and quality bass on Georgia’s…

Seminole Gator Hunt Yields 20 Feet Worth Of Lizards

Ashley Bowlden first started putting in for her Georgia alligator tags back in 2018, when she got to attend her first gator hunt. She loved it so much that she immediately started putting in for herself and her children every year, as well. Six years later, on the opening weekend of Georgia’s 2024 alligator season,…

Lake Seminole Springtime Shellscackers

Lake Seminole has miles of shallow sandy grass flats and sandbars that are ideal shellcracker bedding areas. Head south to Seminole in April and May with an eye toward panfish, and you are in for some fantastic fishing. Seminole is formed where the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers join to form the Apalachicola River just inside…

Seminole Shines In February As Bass Move Up

Normally when I get assigned a GON story on Lake Seminole I’m pretty darn fired up about it. I don’t know if there’s anything quite like a warm, summer day on the lake with the sun on your back and just enough breeze blowing to keep the gnats away. Fields of grass mats and lily…

Seminole Lake Records

Largemouth Bass16-lbs., 4-ozs.Charles Tyson05/23/1961
Hybrid Bass16-lbs., 5-ozs.Thomas Elder05/09/1985
Striped Bass38-lbs., 9-ozs.Justin McAlpin11/15/79
Black Crappie3-lbs., 8-ozs.Emmett Thomas12/13/1970
Shellcracker2-lbs., 9.5-ozs.John Weaver07/31/2007
Bluegill1-lb., 7.68-ozs.Wendell Mathis08/24/2021
Flathead Catfish53-lbs., 11.2-ozs.Tim Trone04/08/2023
Blue Catfish35-lbs., 8.4-ozs.John Donalson03/16/25