Originally Posted by William
I have a neighbor that's in his 70's. He a retired biology teacher from UAB. He claims that one year they caught a bunch of LM on the river above the 280 dam. He said they caught one close to 8 or 9 lbs. He said that it flooded a lot that year and he felt like a pond over flowed or something? I've always wanted to put a legit boat with some electronics in at 280 and see what was in that lake. Flipping the log jams would be fun too.

Back in the early 90's I was at that spillway just downstream of the 280 bridge and there is a high walkway you can look down into the tailrace section and I saw a largemouth that would push 10 pounds laying in the slack water. Biggest bass I ever seen in real life. I didn't have a rod but pointed the fish out to a guy and he cast to it and it spooked never to be seen again. I have caught spots up to 4 pounds north of 280.