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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: 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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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…
Lake Seminole has long been known as one of the best bass fishing lakes in the country, not just for quantities of fish, but also huge tournament bags. During the postspawn feed-up on Lake Seminole, you can bet you’re going to need an average of more than 6 pounds per fish just to be in…
William Hornsby caught a 1-lb., 2.4-oz. bluegill to set a benchmark for establishing a verified lake record for bluegill on Lake Seminole on Feb. 27, 2011.
Randy Hand, of Decatur, now holds the Georgia state record for the longest hunter-taken alligator after killing this 13-foot, 9-inch monster at Lake Seminole on Sept. 19. The gator weighed 692 pounds. Randy’s gator is just 2 inches longer than the old record, a 13-foot, 7-inch Blackshear gator taken in 2008.
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 | 11/15/79 |
| 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 |
| Blue Catfish | 35-lbs., 8.4-ozs. | John Donalson | 03/16/25 |