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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: 0.2 feet below 77.5. Temp: 61-64 degrees. Clarity: Spring Creek is clear and the Chattahoochee River has a slight stain. The Flint River is stained. Bass: Capt. Paul Tyre reports, “The bass fishing on Lake Seminole has been excellent. Senkos and lipless crankbaits have been very productive. If planning a trip to Lake Seminole in April, there are three baits you will need to have tied on. A hollow-belly frog is one of my favorites. I use a Spro popping frog fished around and over the top of vegetation. I like using a 7-3, heavy-action rod with a high-speed reel filled with at least 50-lb. Cortland Master Braid to get the big bass out of the heavy cover. A swim jig is a very productive lure in April on Seminole. My choice of a swim jig is the 6th Sense Braid swim jig. It is made with a…
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All Wendell Mathis wanted to do in his 45 years of fishing Lake Seminole was catch a bream that weighed at least a pound. Well, at almost 69 years of age, the angler from Colquitt sealed the deal on Aug. 24 with a bluegill bream that weighed 1-lb., 7.68-ozs. “I put in at Cummings Landing…
By Mike Harp Just wanted to sit down and tell my story of the last four years of gator hunting leading up to my 2020 13-3 beast. It all started with my first tag in 2013. I thought it was going to be easy to just go out and get one. Well one weekend later,…
Grass, grass and more grass—not only is that a good guide as to where to fish in June, it is a pretty good description of Lake Seminole from end to end. But there is so much grass cover in the lake, where do you start? Lake Seminole is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir…
On Jan. 23, history was made on Lake Seminole as the Georgia High School Association held its first-ever bass tournament. The event drew an impressive 120 boats filled with two-man teams from every corner of the state as anglers battled for a chance to qualify for the state championship that will take place on May…
By Zach Cole For someone who has never had the pleasure of filling an alligator tag, much less drawing one, the 2020 alligator season is going to be a hard one for me to beat. I have been applying for gator tags for five or six years now, and this year I wagered it all.…
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 |