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Seminole: Level: 2.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 78-80 degrees. Clarity: Chattahoochee is slightly stained. The main lake is clear. Bass: Butch Tucker said the spawn was about done at the end of April. Now is the time when Seminole’s bass will head back to their summer haunts, which means it’s time to throw topwater…
Seminole: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Chattahoochee and Flint are stained, Spring Creek is stained in places. Bass: Butch Tucker says the main spawn is about over for the bass, but some fish will still be moving up around the new moon. “All in all, the bass fishing has been very good,” Butch…
Canvasback hunting in Georgia is back! After a closed season last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service okayed a special 30-day season for cans this season. Canvasback season will be open from December 27 through January 25 with a limit of one bird per day. In Georgia, canvasback hunting means Lake Seminole. While a…
Jackie Alderman and I had been fishing on Lake Seminole for all of about two minutes when the first fish hit. We had pulled up to a sandbar in five or six feet of water within sight of the Jim Woodruff Dam and had begun to throw a Carolina-rigged Junebug lizard. On his second cast,…
Lake Seminole in February can be heaven or it can be tough, but you can bet that at least a few times in February it will be bass fishing heaven. Like early-spring bass fishing everywhere, the weather dictates the activity and movements of the bass at Seminole, which in turn determines what patterns and techniques…
On September 1 of this year, 2006, Jack Wingate will be 76 years old. Sitting over breakfast in his lodge at Lake Seminole a couple of weeks back, I told him he looked 25. “I feel 25,” he instantly retorted. “Most of the time. But this morning, I’ve already done shows for seven radio stations…
“Some great fishing is about to happen here…” Allen Carter’s voice was full of excitement as he surveyed Big Sem’ s waist-high grass and the multitude of minnows, lake shiners, bream of several varieties and bass moving in and out of its root systems. He was continually pointing to some slight shudder of stem as…
Seminole: Level: 6 inches below full. Temp: 58-60 degrees. Clarity: Dingy in the river channels, but clearing up pretty quick. There is some clear water around Lily Pad Run, and Carl’s Pass. Bass: A tournament out of Wingate’s Lunker Lodge on February 25 drew nearly 70 boats. It took a 24-lb. sack of bass to…
Seminole: Level: 0.4 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid to upper 50s. Clarity: Clearing on the main lake with some stain up the rivers. Bass: Fishing has been very good. Butch Tucker says if the weather stays warm, the February full moon could signal the start of some unbelievable bass fishing. “With the warm weather…
January weather here in Georgia often makes bass fishermen dream of a trip to Florida. But you donat Lake Seminole. There the bass fishing is often way ahead of the rest of our state. Seminole is a shallow, flat lake with lots of grass and channels snaking through spawning flats. There are stumps and standing…
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