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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
Level: 0.3 feet below 77.5. Temp: 78-85 degrees. Clarity: Clear to lightly stained. Brad Reynolds, owner of Westside Bait and Tackle, reports, “The bite has been really good this week. Folks are catching anything and everything up and down the lake. There’s a good mayfly hatch happening right now on Seminole, and that’s got bream, bass and even catfish feeding hard.” If you’re looking to target bluegill, finding them won’t be hard. Look for them to be shallow and holding tight under willow trees as they gorge themselves on the current mayfly hatch that’s been going on. “I’m getting reports from customers every day who are having success all over the lake and even up the Flint all the way to Big Slough, and folks are catching them all kinds of ways,” said Brad. “Beetlespins, topwater bugs and crickets are all producing, and folks are catching some big ones.” Brad…
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Lake Seminole in February can be heaven or it can be tough, but you can bet that at least a few times in February it will be bass fishing heaven. Like early-spring bass fishing everywhere, the weather dictates the activity and movements of the bass at Seminole, which in turn determines what patterns and techniques…
On September 1 of this year, 2006, Jack Wingate will be 76 years old. Sitting over breakfast in his lodge at Lake Seminole a couple of weeks back, I told him he looked 25. “I feel 25,” he instantly retorted. “Most of the time. But this morning, I’ve already done shows for seven radio stations…
“Some great fishing is about to happen here…” Allen Carter’s voice was full of excitement as he surveyed Big Sem’ s waist-high grass and the multitude of minnows, lake shiners, bream of several varieties and bass moving in and out of its root systems. He was continually pointing to some slight shudder of stem as…
January weather here in Georgia often makes bass fishermen dream of a trip to Florida. But you donat Lake Seminole. There the bass fishing is often way ahead of the rest of our state. Seminole is a shallow, flat lake with lots of grass and channels snaking through spawning flats. There are stumps and standing…
In south Georgia, the month of March can take on many different faces. One day shows signs of beautiful, spring-like weather. The next day, you will swear we are still in the firm grasp of “Old Man Winter.” All things considered, one thing is for sure: March is a month of change. The days are…
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 |