Thursday afternoon and Friday morning my buddy and I hit the tailwaters below Wheeler dam in Alabama. We were fishing both big jigs with swimbaits (1oz.) and drifting live bait we netted ourselves. I believe we caught just about every type of fish that swims in that fast water. And it was fast. They were pumping 160,000 pluc cfs through the dam while we were there.
We caught hybrid, striper, white bass, largemouth, smallmouth, catfish, drum, and buffalo carp.
Our target was really smallmouth and we did pretty decent with the biggest going about 5.5 pounds and I think the big largemouth was right at 6 lbs.
I don't think there is any freshwater place I like fishing better than below Wheeler dam. You never know what you are going to get.
We caught hybrid, striper, white bass, largemouth, smallmouth, catfish, drum, and buffalo carp.
Our target was really smallmouth and we did pretty decent with the biggest going about 5.5 pounds and I think the big largemouth was right at 6 lbs.
I don't think there is any freshwater place I like fishing better than below Wheeler dam. You never know what you are going to get.
