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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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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.…
The 2020 Georgia alligator season is off to a good start, with reports of some huge gators already taken since hunting began Friday evening, Aug. 14 at sunset. GON will have full recaps and highlights of the season next month. One of the more interesting stories so far comes from Lake Seminole, where the Kilgore…
One of the things I most enjoy about the writing business is having the opportunity to fish with anglers who are much more talented on the water than I am. This statement certainly applies to this story while I had the pleasure of working with Bowynn Brown, of Bainbridge. Bowynn is unlike my usual article…
Hobie Kayaks billed the inaugural tournament of its 2020 Hobie Bass Open Series — the Hobie BOS at Lake Seminole — as an opportunity to cash in on trophy bass and big bucks. The storied waters of Seminole and more than 125 kayak tournament anglers didn’t disappoint. In a wild shootout Feb. 1-2 that drew…
Guide Aaron Crews reported on Dec. 19, 2019, “The grass has recovered better from Hurricane Michael than most figured. Duck hunting is slow. The ducks are spooky and are easily pushed out of an area by pressure. They should be scouted by use of binoculars and scanning the area and not running into it full…
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 |