Lake Allatoona is a 12,010-acre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah River near Cartersville and Acworth, NW of Atlanta, impounded by Allatoona Dam (completed 1949) and held near a summer full pool of 840 ft. The lake is a Y-shape: the main Etowah River arm runs northeast from the dam toward Cartersville while the Little River arm branches southeast toward Woodstock, fed by major creeks including Allatoona, Stamp, Kellogg, Illinois, Tanyard, Sweetwater and Proctor. It is a clear, deep, rocky highland fishery dominated by spotted (Alabama) bass, which make up 80-90% of the black bass, with largemouth concentrated in the shallower Little River, Etowah and Allatoona Creek backwaters; long tapering points, main-lake humps, bridge pilings, standing timber, riprap and boat-dock brush piles are the primary structure. Seasonally, spots and hybrids school and chase shad and herring on points and humps in 8-25 ft spring through fall (often surfacing early and late), largemouth push into creek pockets to spawn April-May, and in the cooler months stripers and hybrids stage in the main body from the dam up to the Little River junction.
Spotted bass · Largemouth bass · Striped bass · Hybrid striped bass · White bass · Crappie
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