Miller's Ferry Fishing Reports

[Swede]

Miller's Ferry is located on Alabama River just south of Selma, AL.  Also known as William Dannelly Reservoir.  Heading there this weekend - anyone have any recent information for this location??  It's been over a year since I was last there - wondering what the bite has been like lately.

[CouchTater]

  I've never fished the Alabama there in Selma, but I did hunt about 20 yds away from it last December.  I know some fella's down that way.  I'll try and contact them and see if they any ideas.   

Tater

[Swede]

Club 2-day tournament complete.  7 boats - 14 fisherman.  5 limits posted Saturday, but no one got the limit on Sunday.  Lake level dropped a foot Sunday which turned bite off.  I got real fortunate and won the tourney with 10.42 pounds - a mixture of spots and largemouth.  Also had big fish for the tournament with a 3.19lb spot.  Second place had 9.98lbs and big fish for Saturday - 3.18lb largemouth.  Spinnerbaits and plastics took a majority of the fish.  I caught 7 of 8 fish on a V&M black grape 4 inch ring worm.  My other fish came on a Bandit 200 baby bass CB.  Fish located on main river ledge close to deep water.  Many of the other fish caught also came from very shallow water in sloughs.  Another tournament held on Saturday weighed winning stringer of spotted bass - 14+ pounds.  These fish were reported coming from somewhere far north of Roland Cooper State Park on spinnerbait. 

[Swede]

Club 2-day tourney this weekend.

Lots of fish came to the scales - 20+ pounds needed for 1st through 3rd.  Big fish for the event was 6.96 lbs.  Big bag for the tourney was 15+ pounds.  Most caught their fish on CBs, SBs, and plastics in 1-7 ft of water.

My brother and I had a broke steering cable 10 seconds into day 1.  We fished with the trolling motor in the Roland Cooper area all day and managed 7 total fish in the 1-2.5 pound range.  We rigged up a tiller after coming off the water and got to our areas on day 2.  My area for spotted bass only produced 5 fish - all small.  Went to a second area where my brother limited out and I picked up another for 3 total.  Our fish came on primarily CBs on day 1 - Bandit Gold Splatterback - worked via stop and go pattern or very slow.  Plastics and black-n-blue jig produced best day 2.  Fish were shallow, close to deep water, around wood and hyacinths.  Fish are not spawning yet but should be soon.

Not a bad tourney considering - Miller's Ferry still one of my personal favorites for tourney action.  So many options out there to put fish in the boat and so many places to go.  Average fish size is better than all other Alabama lakes, with exception of maybe Guntersville.  Them spotted bass are some of the best fighting fish out there - one angler weighed in a 4.9 pound spot this weekend - SB was used.  The ones we found were deep - 15-25 feet.  If you are going here anytime soon - plan on rigging a variety of baits.  The flavor of the day changes daily.

[BMiles]

HCBM had their 2-day club tournament at Miller's Ferry on May 20-21.  We had 18 anglers who managed to bring 64 fish to the scales in two days.  Winning weight was 9 fish for 15.54 lbs.  Big fish was 4.8 with 3 other fish being brought in at 4+ lbs.  I did not find any type of pattern till late afternoon the 1st day.   Found fish around laydowns on the main river.  All hit white spinner baits.  On the 2nd day the water level had dropped by close to a foot.  Found a lot of shorts with spinner bait but they had moved to the ledges since there was no more cover on the banks.  I believe the winning pattern was fishing brush-hogs around cover inside the creeks.  This was my 1st time at Miller's Ferry.  Next time I'll be a little more prepared and have a clue where to go.

[Blake R.]

Millers Ferry can be tough... but if you can catch it right, it can be awesome. Talked to my grandparents the other day.. said their is hardly any water left in the canals.

[topcat]

Good report Swede .......sounds like a good lake to fish..........

Topcat