Lake Martin
Lake Martin is 44,000 acres of clear, deep Tallapoosa River water — the South's oldest commercial hydroelectric reservoir (1926) and a spotted bass factory that runs from Alexander City down to the Kowaliga bridges.

Parker Creek Rocky Points
Main-lake rocky points with gradual drop · Swimbait, underspin, jerkbait for spotted bass · Year-round

Kowaliga Bridge Pilings
Bridge pilings and current break · Drop-shot on the shaded side; skip jig at boathouses nearby · Summer + Winter

Blue Creek Spawn Pockets
Shallow gravel-bottom pockets with scattered brush · Sight-fishing with drop-shot, Ned rig, wacky worm · Spawn (late March-April)

Sandy Creek Boathouse Line
Boathouse shade, dock skipping, scattered cover · Skipped wacky worm and Texas-rigged stick bait · Summer

Children's Harbor Bluff Walls
Vertical rock walls dropping to the channel · Jerkbait with extra-long pauses; drop-shot on stair-step rock · Winter + Summer

Martin Dam Tailrace
Current break, deep hole, rip-rap · Live bait for catfish and stripers; heavy jig for winter bass · Year-round

Cherokee Ridge Main-Lake Hump
Isolated main-lake hump topping at 20 ft · Drop-shot, shaky head, flutter spoon for schooling spotted bass · Summer + Fall

Tallapoosa Headwaters Creek-Mouth Pocket
Two-boat-length creek mouth with a current-formed eddy on the point, hard bottom 2-5 feet deep · Lucky Craft 1.5 square-bill (T.O. Craw) cranked on the eddy point when current is pulling · Winter + Pre-spawn

Lake Martin Seawall Reaction Banks (south end)
Rocky-bottom seawalls with shade line in three feet or less; reaction-strike cover · 1/2-oz Greenfish Tackle Toad Toter buzzbait reeled fast — 98% of bites came within three cranks of the reel handle in Bakewell's 2024 Open win · Fall

Pre-Spawn Rock Piles (south end clear water)
Main-lake rock piles in less than ten feet on the clean south end · Slow-rolled Rapala CrushCity Freeloader on 1/4-oz jighead — Fisher Anaya's 2026 Elite win pattern. Cast from 50-70 feet off the fish. · Pre-spawn (Feb)

Lake Martin — Lake Center