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July 18, 2008
LAKE SEMINOLE IS FULL, CLEAR &
85 DEGREES
BY
JOE DURHAM 229-431-3036
Meet Ken Sturdivant Saturday's at Bass Pro Shops "Outdoor World" in
Lawrenceville Georgia.
Bass fishing has been slow almost all day but the bright spot is any current
during generation. With the slow day fishing, get out the large dark Senko’s,
rig the wacky style with a large hook and cast them to points on grass lines and
on main lake ledges. Early and late Lunker Lures buzz baits on the wood or grass
lines can draw a fish but run and gun all day. Float a large dark Gilraker worms
or lizards on Texas rig with no weight on around the grass beds. Add a Mann’s
Rat in green frog then follow up with a big lizard in June bug on a large #5
Mustad hook. Zoom Swamp crawlers are working on a long Carolina rig with the
Lindy No Snag rig in the ounce size. To get away from the heat, fish early and
late and use a green pumpkin and June Bug Zoom U tail on a Texas rig. Use the
all white one ounce spinner bait and slow roll the bait but this will tax the
arms if the fish do not bite. Try this large bait for 30 minutes each trip and
use it on the feeding periods. You can see the feeding times daily with a Data
Sport Fish and Game Forecaster at www.moontimes.com.
Ken Sturdivant, Lowrance Professional Fishing Staff will be conducting FREE!
Sonar Seminars at Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World in Lawrenceville Georgia.
All seminars start at 2pm.
These are the dates. July 26, August 30, September 27, October 25, November 29,
and December 27, 2008.
The FREE map card deal is still on with any Lowrance 5 inch
sonar/GPS or Lowrance GPS unit. See
www.lowrance.com
Our NEW! DVD, FINDING FISH WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY
is now on sale.
If you would like to have a free set up sheet for your sonar, send me an e mail
to
kensturdivant@earthlink.net and ask for the “Sonar Setup Quick List”.
mailing address is:
Southern Fishing Schools Inc. 106 Hickory Ridge, Cumming
Georgia 30040.
We have these books for sale: “BASS FISHING ON WEST POINT LAKE”, “BASS FISHING
LAKE RUSSELL”, “BASS FISHING WEST POINT LAKE” and “BASS FISHING LAKE HARTWELL”.
These books are written by Tim White and Ken Sturdivant and each one has over 65
locations exclusively for bass and covers every week of the year. Each book
$39.00.
If you would like a sample of any book, send us an email to
kensturdivant@earthlink.net.
Our mailing address is:
Southern Fishing
Schools Inc. 106 Hickory Ridge, Cumming Georgia 30040.
We have 3 books that cover all species in the lakes, “52 WEEKS ON LAKE ALLATOONA,
“52 WEEKS ON LAKE LANIER”, and “52 WEEKS ON WEST POINT LAKE” on sale. Each book
is $23.95.
Our mailing address is:
Southern Fishing Schools Inc. 106 Hickory
Ridge, Cumming Georgia 30040.
You can see the feeding times daily with a Data Sport Fish and Game Forecaster
on our web site.
We teach “ON THE WATER SCHOOLS”: “Rods, Reels and Lures for Bass or Maps and
Depth Finders. Call 770 889 2654 for details or see the web site:
www.havefunfishing.com.
Take a look at
www.aquavu.com. You really need a camera. Copyright 2007, Southern
Fishing Schools Inc. call us to set up a school “Rods, Reels and Lures for
Bass”. See our web site,
www.havefunfishing.com for more details or call
us right away, 770 889 2654.
Information provided my
MyFWC.com
January 2008 - April 2008
The reservoirs along the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers are at or above full
pool, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) should be able to supplement
flows at least through the spring if drought conditions in the lower basin
return. If the weather fronts continue through April, the reservoirs should
remain full and cool, and bedding activity will be prolonged. Crappie fishing on
Lake Seminole was good through March and should continue into April. Largemouth
bass began moving into the shallows early, but cool weather in March slowed
their spawning. Fish the creek mouths and flats in about six to ten feet of
water for staging fish that are moving to the beds, but move to the backs of the
creeks as spawning picks up. Later in the spring, move to deeper water along the
Flint River and larger tributaries and fish vertically with jigs and spoons
along the channels, weed lines and the standing timber, or off the points. On
the Chattahoochee side, fish the cuts between the islands where there is
current. The limits for largemouth and other black bass are 10 fish per day all
of which must be a minimum of 12 inches total length. Bluegill and shellcracker
will also be on the beds in April and May, and fishing should be good around the
full moon. Adult stripers began migrating up the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers
to spawn in late March and will continue through mid to late April. Many
stripers will move back into the reservoir if water temperatures don’t warm too
quickly. Immature fish will remain in the reservoir through the spring. The U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released 42,000 phase II (8 to 12 inch)
striped bass into Lake Seminole during December and January. Fish the old river
channels on both the Chattahoochee and Flint River sides of the lake. High water
during February and March resulted in the discharge of sunshine bass from Lake
George and Lake Blackshear, and hybrid fishing in Lake Seminole and in the
rivers should be good through the spring. Length and bag limits for stripers,
hybrids, and white bass in Lake Seminole follow those established by Georgia
Department of Natural Resources (DNR): an aggregate of 15 fish, of which no more
than two may be 22 inches or longer.
