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Fishing Reports
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…
Seminole: Level: 1.8 feet above full. Temp: 54 degrees. Clarity: Lots of stain. Bass: Guide Aaron Crews reports, “The temperature on the main lake varies due to rains and water released from the lakes upstream. Saunders Slough, Fish Pond Drain, Spooner Fields and Cypress Pond Drain areas are clear to slightly stained. These clearer areas have better grass, and most…
Seminole: Level: 2.2 feet above full. Temp: 56 degrees. Clarity: Muddy with fast current. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Baty reports, “All areas around Lake Seminole have received several inches of rain through the month of December. This has the fish a little tougher to catch than normal. However, when you find a school of fish, you can catch good…
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…
Seminole: Level:0.7 feet above full pool. Temp: Low to mid 60s, but temperature will vary greatly with water released from upstream. Clarity: Clear to slightly stained. Bass: Guide Aaron Crews reports, “Many of the grassbeds were literally ripped from the lake bottom during the hurricane, so bass fishing resembles a spring bite. Rat-L-Traps in blue back and chrome and…
Seminole: Level: 0.2 feet low. Temp: Mid 70s. Clarity: Strange tannic color from dead grass. Bass: Guide and tournament angler Matt Baty reports, “The lake really took a hard hit from Hurricane Michael. I’d have to say 75 percent of all the hydrilla was ripped up and blown to the banks, leaving piles of dead, stinking grass. The water clarity…
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…
On Saturday, Sept. 16, Randy Hand, of Bainbridge, his wife, oldest brother, and father went on Lake Seminole to go gator hunting, and they killed an alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long and was weighed at a whopping 680 pounds on certified scales at Elberta Crate and Box Company. Randy and his family have been…
Seminole: Level: 0.7 feet low. Temp: Low to mid 80s. Clarity: Clear to slightly stained. Bass: Guide Aaron Crews reports, “Bass fishing has been slow but should pick up with the cooler weather of fall. The shad will school up with the decreasing temperatures. This means walking baits like the Zara Spook, and topwater baits, like Baby Torpedos in bass…
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