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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.
Lake Seminole Resources
Seminole: Level: 0.3 feet below 77.5. Temp: 73-78 degrees. Clarity: Spring Clear has a slight stain, and the Chattahoochee arm has a heavy stain. Capt. Paul Tyre, with Lake Seminole Fishing Adventures, reports, “The bass fishing on Lake Seminole has been excellent this fall with the arrival of cooler weather and falling water temperatures. The bass, stripers and hybrids are feeding up for the winter. “The big largemouth have been feeding heavily on bream, while the schooling bass are feeding on shad. We have been catching bass on a variety of lures from topwater to moving baits. A buzzbait has been generating some explosive strikes! The Strike King Thunder Cricket swim jig has been very productive this fall, and I expect it to continue to produce through the winter. It has incredible action to it and a built-in trailer keeper that works great. “The crappie have been schooling up in 15 to…
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As an outdoor writer, I’ve spent a lot of time on the water with some really good tournament anglers. The guys I’ve fished with are usually at the top of their field in regional or state levels, but none of them fish for a living. When I saw that the B.A.S.S. Elite Series was coming…
A profound sorrow hangs heavy across a series of tight-knit communities in southwest Georgia after the tragic loss of a popular high-school junior who drowned while duck hunting on Lake Seminole. Southwest Georgia Academy multi-sport athlete Matthew Jernigan, 17, drowned on the morning of Jan. 7 after the boat carrying him and classmates Payson Trawick…
Four Decatur County residents made Georgia history on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Dr. Daniel White, Alex “Bud” Harrell, Gary Braswell and tag-holder Jim Overman bagged a new state-record alligator from Lake Seminole. The 13-foot, 10-3/4-inch monster broke the previous record from 2010 by 1 3/4 inches. What started out as a teal scouting trip for…
I have been blessed to fish all over the country, and I’ll be totally honest with you—Lake Seminole is one of the best lakes you will ever have the opportunity to fish. With abundant vegetation such as hydrilla and eel grass, miles of sandbars and hundreds of acres of standing timber, Seminole bass grow throughout…
Down in the southwest corner of the state is a lake revered by locals and worth the drive for bass anglers statewide. Aptly named after the original inhabitants of the area, Lake Seminole is a three-fingered maze of standing timber and aquatic vegetation made at the joining of the Flint River, the Chattahoochee River and…
Seminole Lake Records
| Largemouth Bass | 16-lbs., 4-ozs. | Charles Tyson | 05/23/1961 |
| Hybrid Bass | 16-lbs., 5-ozs. | Thomas Elder | 05/09/1985 |
| Striped Bass | 38-lbs., 9-ozs. | Justin McAlpin | 11/15/1979 |
| Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 8-ozs. | Emmett Thomas | 12/13/1970 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 9.5-ozs. | John Weaver | 07/31/2007 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 7.68-ozs. | Wendell Mathis | 08/24/2021 |
| Flathead Catfish | 53-lbs., 11.2-ozs. | Tim Trone | 04/08/2023 |