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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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By Jeana Quirk I patiently waited seven years to draw a gator tag in Georgia. After a year-long debate on which zone to apply for, we decided to proceed with Zone 2 (Lake Seminole). We currently live in Harris County on Lake Harding (Zone 1), which is where “Big Al,” a 12-6 gator, was taken…
A 13-foot, 3-inch gator has been reported from Lake Seminole, the largest so far this season. Georgia’s gator season will officially end on Oct. 2, but this one will be hard to top in the remaining days. The hunter? Well, it’s a girl… and one who’s no stranger to taking big alligators. “I went on…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is conducting aerial aquatic plant management on Lake Seminole throughout the week of Sept. 5, weather permitting. The management areas were chosen in coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, balancing the project’s fish and wildlife habitat benefit, density and location of the vegetation management areas,…
A new lake record flathead catfish was caught during a tournament at Lake Seminole last weekend. Tim Trone was fishing with his son Chase when he hooked up with a big flathead that ended up taking big-fish honors weighing 53.70 pounds (53-lbs., 11.2-ozs.). Tim is no stranger to massive, record-breaking catfish. He is the Georgia…
Lake Seminole is far enough south that the fall feeding spree you enjoyed up north in October and early November is still in full swing this month. You can catch shallow Seminole bass feeding up during December in a variety of ways, but rather than getting ready for winter, they are already getting ready for…
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 |