Coosa River Records
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Lake Weiss
Weiss Lake is located mostly in northeastern Alabama and is owned and operated by the Alabama Power Co. The lake consists of 30,200 acres and is fed from the Coosa River, Chattooga River (Alabama–Georgia) and Little River, offering over 447 miles of shoreline and fishing cover that ranges from shallow flats to deep channel ledges.
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Weiss: Level: 0.2 feet below 564. Temp: 78-80 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Multiple Species: Guide Mark Collins reports, “Bass fishing is good, and some have started moving shallow in the bays on secondary points. Creek and river channel ledges are still producing using Carolina rigs and crankbaits. Crappie fishing is fair, and they are on the creek and river channel ledges and deeper brush. They can be caught spider rigging with live minnows over deep brush. Shooting docks with jigs is also producing some fish, Look for the crappie to really start biting as the water cools down. Striper fishing is good, and they are being caught in Little River and the Chattooga River on live shad downlined and freelined. Catfish are biting good in the bays and creeks in 8 to 15 feet of water. Cutbait is working best.” For more on fishing with Mark, go to www.markcollinsguideservice.com/home.html. Lake…
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Rocks, docks, seawalls, grass—Weiss Lake is full of bass-holding, fun-to-fish structure, and the reservoir can produce good catches of spotted bass and largemouth in August. Weiss is a 30,200-acre Alabama Power Co. lake on the Coosa River. A small part of the upper Coosa is in Georgia, but an Alabama fishing license is required to…
Each year more than 500,000 anglers from all over the nation come to Weiss Lake, an Alabama Power hydroelectric lake known as “The Crappie Capital of the World.” Many of them come to catch some big, tasty slabs. June of this year marks the 58th year anniversary of the Weiss impoundment, and this lake today…
Crappie fishing is consistently good on Lake Weiss. The Coosa River reservoir, located mostly in northeastern Alabama near Cedar Bluff, has long been labeled the “crappie capital of the world.” Fishermen from near and far flock to Weiss, and the crappie generally cooperate. Most years are good; others can be phenomenal. Local guide and tournament…
As I slid my vessel into the fertile waters of Weiss Lake, my mind drifted back to 1985 and a time when life was simpler and youthful ignorance was bliss. My first boat was a gift from my father for an honor roll school year that both he and I knew was hard earned, and…
The fisheries departments from Georgia and Alabama have combined efforts to stock 30,000 striped bass fingerlings in the Coosa River above Lake Weiss in the past month. The striper stocking, the first in this lake and river system since the mid 1980s, will supplement an existing population that is one of the few landlocked, freshwater…
Coosa River Record Fish
| Striped Bass | 36-lbs. | Andrew Coombs | 04/24/2005 |
| Channel Catfish | 19-lbs., 8-ozs. | Ty Adams | 05/30/1998 |
| Blue Catfish | 61-lbs., 4.8-ozs. | John Jones | 04/10/04 |
| Flathead Catfish | 46-lbs., 6.4-ozs. | Aaron Churchwell | 09/16/2015 |
| Longnose Gar | 31-lbs., 2-ozs. | Rachel Harrison | 03/19/2022 |
| Freshwater Drum | 10-lbs., 13.6-ozs. | Jenna Thomas | 05/16/19 |
| Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 11-ozs. | James King | 03/19/2023 |
| Walleye | 7-lbs., 4-ozs. | Samuel Luster | 02/05/1989 |
| White Crappie | 3-lbs., 3.5-ozs. | Rita Ware | 02/02/2019 |
| White Bass | 2-lbs., 7-ozs. | Rachel Harrison | 03/24/24 |