fishing on lake seminole

Question
I will be fishing on lake from march 27 thru march 30. what type of fishing should be considered for bass. Is the top water bite going on now or should something else be better and if so what would you recommend. we are traveling from north of atlanta and  want to be prepared for  what might be the best type of fishing  lures to bring. Thanks for any help you might offer. It has been  several years since I have fished the lake and I am sure that  the lake has changed  quite a bit.

Answer
Larry, I am so sorry to be this late answering since you are already here. If you get this please call me at 229-861-2366 and I will try to catch you up.   The message request got put in my spam and although I check spam daily I did not see it until this morning.  Also I am not on top of my game since I haven't been fishing much lately.  I can give you some ideas but it will have to be very general because I don't know where you are staying.  There are so many places to stay an to fish on this lake it is difficult not knowing where you will launch.  If you launch at Wingates I would try the flats on the right  just out the canal from Wingates early and late.  If there is a breeze  try a jerk bait or a buzz bait  if it is calm the buzz bait should work.  If that doesn't  pan out try devil horse or somethnglike that. Nest try  the drown trees across to the west and around the islands. worms or crank baits often work in the tree stumps. Try to hit the largest tree stumps casting to hit the tree at water line then let the worm sink on a free line. If you put tension on the line the worm will pendulum out away from the tree base.  Watch your line closely if it jumps the least bit tighten up and strike. A crank bait running deep and banging into the stump will often trigger a strike.
If those trees don't pay off there are a couple of choices. You can run the river channel down toward the South West and fish around the islands. Some places will be pretty shallow others drop off to deeper water. A jerk bait will often work well here and the weeds should not be to bad this early. You can go on down to the mouth of Spring creek and fish all the trees and humps and if you wish you can continue over into the Chatahoochee and fish the lilly pads back on the right. The other choice is to run through the cut across from Wingates marked with pilings.
There is a no wake area but it isn't too bad getting through.  When you get through follow the sets of pilings until you come to one red top piling without a green partner. Start fishing to the left around the loop fishing both the tree stumps and the deep channel using deep runners. On lowlight days I like using a Devil horse or Zara Spook around the trees all around this curve in the channel that shows on the map as sort of a double loop.  At the North of this area is a pair of pilings. From the pair of pilings look west find some still standing trees. Fish in and around them. I got my two biggest bass back in here one hot summer night on a musky jitterbug.  One just over 9 lbs. the other just under. Still looking for a ten pounder. I know he is in here. On the right is a small bunch of stickups and I have caught some nice bass there. the creek channel runs at right angles to the boat channel which goes on north and joins the boat channel coming up from rattlesnake point. The tree stumps on the right need to be combed with about anything you might have. I have caught five lb bass on many different lures in this area. Just stay in the creek channel which is about 18-20 feet while the trees are in 12-15 feet or less. Eventually on the left side of the channel is a small stickup. One of the arms is nearly horizontal and shows above water (usually) It points to an opening into what must have been a slough. Ease back in there and fish both sides all the way back until you run out of slough and the trees are thick. This slough has gotten me a lot of fish over the years.  If you continue up the creek channel it will curve left and come to another set of pilings that mark the main boat road going upstream.  Fish around this junction and then follow the creek channel on toward the North shore. Just before you get to a big fairly new dock start working deep stuff all around. Spinnerbaits , deep cranks, jigs or worms and sometimes in low light topwaters work well. If the stumps on the left side of the creek channel which bends sharply upstream do not produce head  Downstream in the marked boat channel until you are directly in front of a huge home (the biggest in the area) and start working the trees on the  right and a smaller  group of trees  sort of alone on the left. Work the trees  on the right toward shore then back into the cove just past the last house before those in the cove. The one standing stick about 30' high in the middle if it hasn't blown down is a good place to work around back in the corner of the cove.  Follow the creek channel down through the next half mile or so. Creek depth 5-8 feed deeper than trees.  Eventually you will come to the boat channel coming out from Reynolds landing. cross over and work the trees toward the West shore but don't go to the west shore head in and out zing zagging toward the boat channel coming up from Rattlesnake Point.  If you haven't found bass in here I would guess they are hiding somewhere and not eating.  I forgot to mention that  we have used the plastic swim baits all around in these trees. Don't be afraid to cast a 6-8 incher there are some big bass in this lake.
Again I am sorry this is late I hope you have a computer with you.  Again give me a call at the number above And I will try to give more info.

Thanks for calling on me to answer your question.  I know there are lots of other places to fish in this lake but I live right next door to that big house and mostly fish Spring Creek arm.

Jack L. Gaither          (JackfromSeminole)
Lake Seminole, Georgia.  [email protected]