Pickwick Lake

Pickwick Lake

Infobox lake
lake_name = Pickwick Lake
image_lake = USACE Pickwick Landing Dam.jpg
caption_lake = Pickwick Landing Dam and Lock
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location = Alabama/Tennessee
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type = reservoir
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Pickwick Lake is the reservoir created by Pickwick Landing Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Pickwick Landing Dam to Wilson Dam.

Pickwick Lake has excellent sportfishing areas, including the Wilson Dam tailwater at the upper end of the reservoir, noted for record-size smallmouth bass and catfish. Another favorite spot is the discharge basin at Colbert Fossil Plant west of Sheffield, Alabama, where the warm water discharged from the power plant attracts fish during cold weather.

Pickwick Lake is the north end of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, which provides a water transportation route to the Gulf of Mexico.

ee also

*Dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee RiverYellow Creek Cove is home to the Yellow Creek waterfall and is a popular destination for boaters. A rope swing off the top of the waterfall has been present for many years.

References

*cite web | url=Gnis3|1326389 | title=Pickwick Lake | work=Geographic Names Information System | publisher=United States Geological Survey | accessdate=2006-05-02

External links

* [http://www.tva.gov/sites/pickwick.htm Tennessee Valley Authority: Pickwick Reservoir]


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