Gainesville Lake
Gainesville Lake Alabama fishing covers 6,400 Tombigbee River acres at Sumter, Pickens, and Greene counties — USACE Mobile District Howell Heflin Lock & Dam pool, built 1978, worked for largemouth, crappie, blue catfish, and hybrid striper on the Ten-Tom Waterway.

Howell Heflin Dam Tailwater
Concrete dam face, lock approach walls, current-fed rip-rap, deep water 25+ feet · Heavy jig vertical on dam rock; cut shad for blue catfish; swimbait on current seam when gates release · Winter + Summer

Tom Bevill Dam Tailrace (Upper Gainesville)
Upper end of Gainesville pool at Aliceville Lock discharge — current, rock, shad concentration, hybrid stripers · Swimbait and spoon on current seams; jerkbait on slack-water edges; cut shad for big blues · Spring + Fall

Tombigbee Main Channel Oxbows
Old river oxbows and cutoffs off the navigation channel — flooded timber, cypress stumps, soft-bottom flats · ChatterBait on cypress edges; Texas-rigged worm on stumps; lipless crankbait on oxbow mouths in fall · Spring + Fall

Aliceville-Sumter Tributary Arms
Tributary creek arms on Sumter County side — cypress-lined, quiet water off the main channel · Wacky Senko on spawn flats; spinnerbait on laydowns; minnows and small jigs on brush for crappie · Spring

Greene County Side Bayou System
Bayou-and-slough system on the Greene County shoreline — duck cover, flooded timber, backwater heat sinks · Frog on lily pad mats; spinnerbait on timber edges; crickets on bluegill beds in May · Fall + Spring

Gainesville Lake — Lake Center