I am fishing a tournament on seminole saturday and was just wondering if anybody can help me out with some patterns or just an up to date report on what the bass are doing. anything will help since i wont be prefishing. thanks

I live right near lake seminole! But have never fiahed it always wanted to tho. Looks like a Great Lake to fish with a lot of depth and pockets I've been on it several times but never fished

Oh man.

Last weekend a regional tourney was there and it took 35# to win! The top 6 people were over 25# iirc.

I heard NOTHING about how or where they were caught, but if they caught them like that they MUST have been staging up to move in. If you get to pre fish , I'd look for bedding fish in the spring creek area- on up to fish pond drain.

Otherwise, your normal type prespawn points and ditches. I'd throw traps and jerkbaits to find them.

Good luck. Tell us how you do!

Which Lake Seminole is being discussed? The one in Pasco County Florida? The one in Pinellas County Florida? Or, the one in Jackson County Florida that is also in Georgia???

 

Here is a bathymetric map of Lake Seminole in Pasco County Florida:

 

http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu/RevisedMaps05/PascoMaps/SeminolePascoMap.pdf

 

Here is a partial map of the Jackson County Florida Lake Seminole- the Florida side of the lake anyways:

 

Lol I forgot about the one in pasCo. I live near the pinellas county one.

It's the one close to ga

^ the Florida/georgia one was where I assumed. Birth of bassmasters! Well sorta. ... Lol.

Yeah, in that pic there, that's the lake on the "hooch" ( Chattahoochee river) off to the right there is the flint river, and roughly where the chart is in the upper right is how you get to spring creek. If you're going to put in there at Sneads on the Fla side, that whole side of the hooch is grass covered sand bars. They should be loaded up on there preparing to move up. Slow rolling a big spinnerbait has worked well for me in the past. The area isn't too deep- 10-15 with the bars coming up to 7 or so. The north point there where the flint meets the hooch is alot of shallow backwater and stuff, great for traps.

Down towards the dam, the bottom right corner of this pic, there's a ranger station area and the riprap and rocks are pretty abundant there. There's always fish there. .....just have to see if the RIGHT ones are there.

Thanks so much

I'm just gonna throw this out there, but we are facing two cold fronts back to back with the coldest hitting on Saturday through that area.

 

I would suspect that a lot of fish would be trying to seek a comfort zone from the cold down deep. So you might find a heavier concentration of bigger fish hanging off the steeper dropoff's to the deepest parts of the lake. Just a theory... but the warmer water may hold more fish on Saturday.

im assuming your fishing the college tournament, good luck but i cant add any info. 

^^^^ FFF has a point.

There are many deep holes and warm water springs in the spring creek area. A jerkbait around the grass or a jig on the channel ledges may produce better. Its supposed to be in the 20s the next two nights.

Guys it was tough out there. I didn't fish the college tournament because I'm still in high school. We had 13 people fishing in my club and only 5 caught fish. It took 13lb to win ours and I think 25lb to win the college tournment.

There was also I ton of beds fanned out already but the cold front pushed them back off. I'll be back out there in 2 weeks snatching big mama off of a sweet spot

I knew it! We have the same situation here in central Florida too.

 

This past weekend when I was out on six different lakes I was looking for beds and was not seeing any. The fish were indeed down deep doing nothing. I trolled around the edges of the lake in crystal clear shallow water and did not even see any fish period. Nada. Zilch. Zippo. No activity.

 

We managed to catch 3 bass in 3 hours but that was it. All little males getting ready for spawn.

 

These lakes are all connected by canals 3 and 4 feet deep and soon they will be loaded up with spawning bass and like you I'm hoping to catch a few DD mama's off the beds...

 

But hey, at least you got to fish! You could of been snowed in somewhere!

Exactly it was freezing had ice on my rod eyes. Managed one keeper but unfortunately it was in practice. Atleast I wasn't sitting in class