Whether you choose to travel the trail from north to south, visit a lake near another of Alabama’s amazing attractions or just pick a spot on the map and head out, you’ll get hooked on the great fishing of the Alabama Bass Trail. Check out the trail map and start planning your trip – and your lasting memories of fishing the trail – today.
Alabama River
The 318-mile-long Alabama River originates just north of Montgomery, where the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River meet near the fall line between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Highlands Region.
Lake Eufaula
Lake Eufaula gained a reputation in the 1960s and ’70s as the “Bass Fishing Capital of the World,” and it’s still considered a prime spot to catch them.
Lake Guntersville
Alabama’s largest lake has a reputation to match. Lake Guntersville is known as a prime spot for bass. Big ones.
Lake Jordan
Lake Jordan, in rural central Alabama, is a 6,800-acre impoundment on the Coosa River. Public and private boat ramps, as well as several private marinas, provide access to its rich waters.
Lake Martin
Lake Martin is a 39,000-acre impoundment on the Tallapoosa River with an astounding 700 miles of shoreline. Along with its spring and fall popularity, it’s considered to be one of the best wintertime bass fisheries in Alabama.
Logan Martin Lake
Logan Martin is nicknamed the “Lake of a Thousand Coves” and provides 275 miles of shoreline along its 48-mile stretch of the Coosa River. Between Logan Martin Dam on the south and Neely Henry Dam on the north, the lake covers more than 15,000 acres.
Lay Lake
Just 30 minutes south of Birmingham, this 12,000-acre reservoir has seven public-access areas that offer easy bank and boat access to the lake.
Lewis Smith Lake
Most know this as Smith Lake and everybody knows it as the home of numerous world-record catches for spotted bass.
Logan Martin Lake
Logan Martin is nicknamed the “Lake of a Thousand Coves” and provides 275 miles of shoreline along its 48-mile stretch of the Coosa River.
Mobile-Tensaw River Delta
With more than 20,000 acres of open waters, the Mobile-Tensaw Delta is second in size only to the Mississippi River Delta in the U.S.
Neely Henry Lake
Neely Henry Reservoir is located in northeast Alabama on the Coosa River, near the towns of Gadsden and Ohatchee.
Pickwick Lake
Along its 50-mile path from Wilson Dam in Florence, Alabama to Pickwick Dam in Tennessee, summertime lake levels provide 490 miles of winding shoreline and nearly 48,000 acres of water surface.
Weiss Lake
From the Southeast to the Midwest and beyond, anglers talking about the best crappie fishing in the country are talking about Weiss Lake.
Wheeler Lake
The 67,100-acre Wheeler Lake and the Tennessee River hug the entire northern border of Morgan County, Alabama and spill through the center of the beautiful Joe Wheeler State Park.