Fishing in Madison County, Alabama
3 lakes on record in Madison County, drawn from the Atlas lake directory.
Wheeler Lake
67,100 acres of Tennessee River impoundment — nationally ranked crappie water, big grass flats, and two dam tailraces that fish year-round.
67,100 acres acresMax depth 72 ft
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Madison County Public Fishing Lake
105 acres on County Lake Road in Gurley, 11 miles east of Huntsville — ADCNR-managed State Public Fishing Lake stocked with largemouth, bluegill, redear, crappie, channel catfish, and rainbow trout during winter trout season.
105 acres acresMax depth Not published by ADCNR — contour maps available on Outdoor Alabama
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Hays Nature Preserve
A 538-acre City of Huntsville nature preserve in Hampton Cove with Bar Lake (no-permit bank and ADA pier fishing) and Flint River oxbow access — the city's largest undeveloped parkland, established by the Hays family's 1999 land donation.
538 acres (entire preserve; Bar Lake itself is a small oxbow pond within the preserve — acreage not individually published) acresMax depth Not published by City of Huntsville
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