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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: 0.5 feet below 77.5. Temp: 50-53 degrees. Clarity: Spring Creek is clear. The Flint and Chattahoochee river arms are stained. Bass: Capt. Paul Tyre reports, “The bass fishing on Lake Seminole has been good the first month of the new year. As we move into February, the bass fishing on Lake Seminole will be excellent. The bass will be in their prespawn areas feeding up for the spawn. Spinnerbaits, swim jigs and lipless crankbaits will be productive lures to cover water. One of my favorite early spring spinnerbaits is a 1/2-oz. Booyah Covert series Tandem spinnerbaits in chartreuse and white fished along the grasslines and over the grass flats. My favorite swim jig is the 6th Sense Braid Swim Jig. It comes with a thicker 5/0 siwash braid hook that allows you to pull the big bass through the heaviest of cover. I like to fish this jig…
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Brother and sister Carter and Lee Rose Koza, of Marietta, won two different high school bass tournaments on Lake Seminole in February. The first tournament was Feb. 9 at the FLW High School Open, where they competed with 41 other boats and weighed in 23-lbs., 2-ozs. for the victory. “The fish were definitely in prespawn mode,” said Carter,…
Mitchell Grimsley is a 15-year-old sophomore at Towns County High School where he competes on the high school fishing team. Mitchell’s GON Blog centers around his fishing outings and tournament experiences in Georgia. Georgia Bass Nation Trail held a tournament on Seminole on Feb. 16. Lake Seminole was stained in some parts of the lake…
UPDATE: Dec. 16, 2018: Denise Williams was found guilty Friday, Dec. 15 in a Tallahassee courtroom of three counts, including first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Her husband, Mike Williams, was killed by Brian Winchester, who had been Mike Williams’ best friend. Denise Williams and Winchester were having an affair and planned the murder.…
The Georgia Student Anglers duo of Jackson Conley, of Bainbridge, and Brunson Fain, of Donalsonville, brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 17-lbs., 3-ozs. to win the 2018 Bass Pro Shops FLW High School Fishing Lake Seminole Open presented by Berkley. According to post-tournament reports, the duo caught their fish in the Flint…
It’s now been a few weeks since Hurricane Michael slammed into southwest Georgia leaving a path of utter destruction in its path. Square in the middle of all that destruction was one of our state’s most popular reservoirs, Lake Seminole. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Public Affairs Specialist Lance Davis said the lake took a…
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 |