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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.


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Nice, did you catch that buffalo on live bait too?

No, that rascal actually hit a 1oz. jig head with a 3 inch pearl swimbait. Bizarre. I think it is the first one I have ever caught down there.

Is that in Alabama or TN? Congrats on a great day. Also is that a wide ramp below that dam?


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That is pretty bizzare. I fly fish for carp all the time, they, and drums, will go for a fly in a heartbeat. Buffalo, rare at best. If a musky is a fish of 10,000 casts, a buffalo is one of 10,001. LOL

Alabama near Rogersville. Yes it is a wide ramp. An incredible fishery.

The best tailwater boat access ramps I have ever seen. Lots of parking, wide, easy ramp located behind a rock jetty that forms a nice current free area.

Having said that the area below the dam is wrought with rock piles, high tension wire towers on rock pilings. Got to keep your head on a swivel.
Great, great fishing. Use live bait on a couple spilt shot and drift with the current. I've always caught bait in the first Creek on left downstream about 3/4 mile below the dam.