Fishing in Winston County, Alabama
3 lakes on record in Winston County, drawn from the Atlas lake directory.
Lewis Smith Lake
21,200 acres of Alabama's deepest reservoir — Alabama Power's clear-water canyon on the Sipsey Fork, built for spotted bass, trophy stripers, and finesse anglers who can read 60 feet of water.
21,200 acres acresMax depth 264 ft
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Sipsey Fork Trout Tailwater
Twelve miles of cold tailwater on the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior, stocked monthly by ADCNR with Dale Hollow rainbows — the state's one and only trout fishery, fished on fly rod and light spinning tackle.
Tailwater reach — not an impoundment (no surface-acreage figure) acresMax depth Pool depths roughly 8-15 ft; wadeable runs 2-5 ft
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Upper Bear Creek Reservoir
A 14-mile TVA flood-control reservoir in the hills of Franklin, Winston, and Marion counties — clean Appalachian-plateau water, smallmouth and largemouth to double-digits, and the put-in for one of Alabama's best paddle trips.
N/A (published by TVA as a narrow, 14-mile headwater reservoir in the Bear Creek system) acresMax depth N/A
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