The 11 lakes of The Alabama Bass Trail, scattered across the 52,400-square-mile state, represent a combination of top-quality fishing experiences with excellent marinas and boat ramps, great accommodations and a welcoming atmosphere among local businesses. Here, you can get to know each lake on the trail and why anglers flock there to fish for bass.
Lake Guntersville, in northeast Alabama, is one of the premier bass fishing lakes in the state.
Largemouth are by far the most abundant species on Wheeler Lake, the state’s second largest lake. But there are good numbers of smallmouth near the lower end from the Elk River westward.
Pickwick Lakeâs greatest draw is its superb smallmouth bass fishing.
With 21,200 acres spread over 500 miles of winding shoreline, Lewis Smith Lake is unusual among Alabama impoundments â a deep, clear, blue-green jewel of a lake in a mountain-forest setting.
Located in northeast Alabama on the Coosa River near the towns of Gadsden and Ohatchee, Neely Henry Lake envelops 11,235 acres and extends 77.6 miles from the dam upstream to Weiss Dam.
Logan Martin Lake stretches 48 1/2 miles long, most of it narrow and river-like along the course of the original Coosa River channel.
Lay Lake is located 35 minutes south of Birmingham off Interstate 65 in east-central Alabama; it borders St. Clair, Talladega, Shelby, Coosa and Chilton counties.
Lake Jordan is a 6,800-acre impoundment on the Coosa River and has more than 188 miles of shoreline.
The Alabama River is born from a melding of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers north of Montgomery at Fort Toulouse State Historical Park and snakes southwest across the state to its destiny with the Tombigbee to form the Mobile River.
Walter F. George Dam was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1962, forming 45,181-acre Lake Eufaula on the fertile Chattahoochee River. The reservoir extends from the Walter F. George Dam at Ft. Gaines, Ga., northward to Phenix City, Ala. Since this lake is shared by Georgia and Alabama, a fishing license from either state can be used here.
This vast lowcountry melding of two rivers intertwines across some 200,000 acres of marshes, swamps, bayous, creeks, lakes and lowcountry forests to form one of Americaâs great wilderness areas where roads and people are scarce, fish and wildlife abundant.