Some of ya'll that are more locally informed about the Claiborne area south. I see on most old maps instead of the Alabama River being called the Alabama River that it is called Majors Creek all the way to the Mobile river. Where did that name come from?
I've never seen that, but I guess I haven't looked at the right map. Very familiar with majors creek though and it intersects into a huge oxbow that used to be the Alabama River just below Boat Yard.
Yep...Majors Creek feeds into the river at the bottom of the old horseshoe created by the new river cutoff. It crosses Hwy 59 between Latham and Tensaw. The main channel up that way is the Alabama River, plain and simple. Not sure why maps have everything labeled as Majors Creek.
Had possibly the most fun I've ever had fishing in my life back when I was a teenager right across the river from the mouth of Majors while mullet fishing. Dad and I filled two 48 quart ice chests in less than two hours after a thunderstorm we rode out in the old camphouse that used to be (I assume it's gone now) there where Majors feeds into the river. The mullet were hitting so good we didn't even have to put bait on the hooks.
