Lake Seminole

Type
Lake or reservoir, Florida (South)
Designation
Agency-named bass water
USGS gauges
None listed
Guides
None listed
Shops
None listed

Today on Lake Seminole

No live reading for this water
Why there is no reading

Nothing live is published for this water, so there is no reading or verdict today. The readings section below says what we checked.

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Lake Seminole is a lake or reservoir in Florida and Georgia, listed as Agency-named bass water by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

More about Lake Seminole

Updated · Sources: Special Bag and Length Limits: waters with special black bass limits

Representative photograph of similar water; not a photograph of this place.
Representative photograph, not this water.
Where it is

Lake Seminole is a lake or reservoir in Florida and Georgia. Florida has 4 waters named Lake Seminole in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the reservoir whose point is in Decatur County, the one the agency list names.

No real-time gauge

No real-time gauge on this water. We found no active USGS gauge on Lake Seminole or on its stream system within about 25 miles, and no dam operator publishes data for it. A missing gauge says nothing about the water itself. Find the gauges nearest Lake Seminole

About these readings

Nothing live is published for this water; the note below says what we checked.

Where to fish

About this

Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Restrooms near Lake Seminole

Restrooms near Lake Seminole

Restrooms within 2 miles of Lake Seminole in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

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    Photo credit

    The Apalachicola River looking upstream from Neal Landing, Blountstown, Florida. Photo: The Bushranger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Apalachicola River

    Florida · about 29 mi

    Striped bass

  • The clear, shallow head of the Wacissa River with eelgrass, a ramp and woods beyondFeatured sport-fishing water
    Photo credit

    The head of the Wacissa River at Wacissa River Park, Jefferson County, Florida. Photo: Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Wacissa River

    Florida · about 57 mi

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    Photo credit

    The Chattahoochee River at Cochran Shoals, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Photo: Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Spring Creek.

    Spring Creek

    Georgia · about 18 mi

  • Lake Rousseau seen between moss-hung trees, with standing dead timber in the waterFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Lake Talquin
    Photo credit

    Lake Rousseau, Florida, March 2007. Photo: Jpbowen at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Lake Talquin.

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    Florida · about 28 mi

    Panfish & striped bass

  • The Cahaba River running over flat rock ledges below a wooded ridgeFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Ochlockonee River
    Photo credit

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  • The wide Tombigbee River with a sandy bank and trees on the rightFeatured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Holmes Creek
    Photo credit

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Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Agency-named bass water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under bass.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Surface area
27,020 acres
Watershed
Lower Flint

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-05) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped shoreline. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

144.9 of 355.6 mi of shoreline on public land

  • Seminole Recreation AreaArmy Corps of Engineers · 81.1 mi
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management AreaState Department of Natural Resources · 29.5 mi
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management AreaState Department of Natural Resources · 28.9 mi · restricted
  • Seminole State ParkState Department of Natural Resources · 3.5 mi
  • Silver Lake Wildlife Management AreaState Department of Natural Resources · 1.9 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Lake Seminole

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

No guide within 40 miles yet.

Shops nearby

No shop nearby yet.

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Plan a trip here

About this

None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.

No hub within 40 miles

Gear checklist

About this

A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler stands knee-deep in a calm lake with the rod bent, playing a trout

Lakes & stillwater

9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (3)

Watch: stillwater trout basics

About this

Chironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • Catch More Trout in Lakes Using Indicators – Stillwater Fly Fishing TipsEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Stillwater Fly Fishing Is Simpler Than You Think! | Introduction to Stillwater Fly FishingEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Why is this Chironomid Fly Pattern So Versatile? | Two-Toner BC Chironomid | Fly Tying TutorialEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on stillwater

Fish Tales

About this

Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Lake Seminole.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

Something wrong?

All 8 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the point for “Lake Seminole” (reservoir) in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Water type is our own classification.