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Fishing
Seminole: Level: 1.0 feet below full pool. Temp: 86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Butch Tucker said it’s been too hot and folks really aren’t fishing much. September will be about the same type of fishing that’s been going on for the last several months. Fish frogs on top of hydrilla mats early in the…
Level: 1.1 feet low. Temp: 84-90 degrees. Clarity: The main lake and Flint River are crystal clear but should get cloudy in the next week or so. The Chattahoochee is muddy and hardly flowing at all. Spring Creek is almost dry and isn’t flowing. Bass: Poor. The bass fishing is extremely slow. Jack Wingate said,…
Seminole: Level: 1.2 feet low. Temp: 83 degrees. Clarity: The main lake and Flint River are clear. Light stain up the Chattahoochee. Bass: Fair. Brian Key says, “With no moving water, it’s hard to get the numbers you’d like to see.” Early morning start out throwing Heddon’s Dying Flutter near the grass. Try a white-skirted…
Level: 1.4 feet low. Temp: 78 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Good. Robert and Rick Tindell won Valley’s tournament on Sunday, catching a few on topwater and several on hydrilla edges. “They’re on those hydrilla edges now,” said Robert. “I like to flip a worm in there, let if fall and they’ll usually hit it…
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…
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