Little Bear Creek Reservoir
Little Bear Creek Reservoir is a 1,560-acre TVA flood-control impoundment west of Russellville in Franklin County, Alabama — closed in 1976, one of four BCDA-managed Bear Creek Lakes, and defined by a 13-to-16-inch largemouth slot.

Little Bear Creek Dam Area
TVA earthen embankment dam on the south end of the pool, main-channel depth, spillway structure, and a BCDA handicap-accessible fishing pier · Drop-shot and shaky head off the dam face; a small swimbait down the rock; suspending jerkbait on mild winter afternoons; live bait off the ADA pier for crappie and channel cats · Summer + Winter

Elliot Branch Access and Cabin Peninsula
BCDA public ramp, courtesy pier, public swimming beach, and a peninsula of eleven resort cabins on the south-central shoreline — rock-and-wood transitions, cabin-dock brushpiles, and a main-channel drop just off the ramp · Wacky Senko around the cabin docks; 3/8-oz shaky head on the adjacent points; crappie on jigs suspended over the old creek channel; flip a Texas-rigged craw to cabin-dock pilings · Spring + Fall

Williams Hollow Access and Beach Cove
BCDA public ramp, courtesy pier, public beach area, and a long wooded cove on the upper-east side of the reservoir — shaded banks, primary and secondary points, creek-mouth flats · Spinnerbait along the shaded banks; topwater at first light over the beach-cove flats; a Texas-rigged worm on the points; live minnows on the pier for crappie and bream · Spring + Summer

McAffee Landing Ramp
Public BCDA ramp between the dam and the Elliot Branch arm — high-traction paving, courtesy pier, and immediate access to a broad mid-lake section of main-channel water with rocky points and submerged timber · Crankbait on the mid-lake rocky points; a drop-shot for smallmouth and spotted bass on transitions; shad-imitator swimbait parallel to main-lake shoreline during fall shad push · Summer + Fall

Main-Lake Creek Channel (Old Creek Bed)
Old Little Bear Creek channel running through the middle of the impoundment — channel swings, submerged timber, brush tops, and the oxygenated top eighteen feet through summer per ADCNR · Traditional bass baits — crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, and plastic worms — all work per ADCNR; crappie on jigs or minnows suspended above the old creek channel or over brush tops · Year-round

Little Bear Creek Reservoir — Lake Center