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Bank and Accessible Fishing

Bank and Wheelchair Accessible Fishing Opportunities in Southwest Alabama

Your purchase of a fishing license financially supports the protection and enhancement of Alabma's aquatic resources.  Bank fishing is also allowed at Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division Boating Access Areas when fishing activity does not interfere with boating access.

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Baldwin Baldwin County Recreation Parks, including Browns Landing Park
  Bay Minette Creek at Hwy. 225
  Blakeley River at the Blakeley Addition Tract of Forever Wild
 

Bohemian Park at County Road 48

  Caney Bayou at the Lillian Swamp - Caney Bayou Tract of Forever Wild
  Fish River at Weeks Bay tracts of Forever Wild
  Fish River watershed parks including Marlow Ferry East and West Parks
  Manatee Park
  Mobile Delta, Byrnes Lake off Highway 225
  Mobile Delta at the Coastal Birding Trail Site 37 off Hwy. 225
 

Mobile Delta at Meaher State Park (saltwater license requirements) (1-251-626-5529) (wheelchair accessible)

 

Mobile Delta at the Highway 98 Causeway

  Mobile-Tensaw Delta Management Area
  Mobile-Tensaw Delta Tract of Forever Wild
  Mobile Bay at Spanish Fort
  Mobile Delta at the Upper Delta Management Area
 

Mobile Delta at the W. L. Holland Management Area

  Mobile Delta, Tensaw River, at Carpenter Station, Cliff's Landing, on County Road 7 off Hwy 225, pier and boat access (wheelchair accessible)
 

Mobile Delta, Tensaw River, at Blakely Historical Park (1-251-626-0798) (wheelchair accessible)

  Mobile Delta, Tensaw River, at Coastal Birding Trail Site 37 off Hwy 225
  Perdido River at the Perdido River - Longleaf Hills tract of Forever Wild
  Perdido River Perdido River Wildlife Management Area
Choctaw Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge (US Fish and Wildlife 1-251-246-3583) (wheelchair accessible)
  Lenoir Park
  Lock 2 (USCOE)
  McCarty's Ferry Landing (USCOE) 
  Service Park (USCOE) 
  Tuscahoma Landing
Clarke Bashi Creek (USCOE) at Campbell's Landing
  Lower Peachtree
  Old Lock One on the Tombigbee River
  Silver Creek Park
Conecuh Conecuh County Lake
  Evergreen Municipal Park (City of Evergreen) (wheelchair accessible)
Escambia Leon Brooks Hines Lake (Escambia County Public Fishing Lake) (wheelchair accessible pier) (fee)
  Little River Lake at Little River State Forest
Mobile Bay Front Park (salt water)
  Big Creek Lake Landing (1-251-645-8181) on Big Creek Lake off Howell's Ferry Road (wheelchair accessible) (fee)
 

Chickasabogue Park at Chickasabogue Creek in Eight Mile

  Day Lake at Tricentenial Park in Mobile
  Dead Lake Marina (County Commission RV park, cabins, tent camping, lake and river fishing, and boat ramp) (wheelchair accessible) Exit 22 off I-65
  Municipal (Langan) Park in Mobile
  Luscher Park in Mobile
  McNally Park in Mobile
  Mobile Delta at Dead Lake Marina in Creola (1-251-574-2266) (wheelchair accessible)
  Mobile Tensaw Delta Management Area
  Mobile-Tensaw Delta Tract of Forever Wild
  Salco and Middle River Tract of Forever Wild
  Saraland Public Access off Anderson Road to Grady Avenue
  Three Mile Creek at Mobile Tricentennial Park (pond operated by the City of Mobile Parks and Recreation, 1-251-208-1650) (wheelchair accessible)
  Upper-Tensaw Delta Management Area
  W. L. Holland Management Area
Monroe Claiborne Dam, west bank tailwaters (wheelchair accessible) 1-251-690-3005
  Haines Island Park at Davis Ferry crossing
  Issac Creek Park
  Little River Lake at Little River State Forest
  Monroeville City Lake (City of Monroeville) (wheelchair accessible)
  Monroe County Public Fishing Lake (wheelchair accessible pier) (fee)
  Whitey-Lee Park, Monroeville
Washington Chatom City Park (City of Chatom, 1-251-847-2580) (wheelchair accessible) (fee) Saturday Only
  J. Emmett Wood Lake (Washington County Public Fishing Lake) (wheelchair accessible) (fee)
  Old Lock One Park (USCOE) with fishing pier
  St. Stephens Historical Park (Wheelchair Accessible) (fee)
Wilcox Bridgeport Beach Park
  Chilatchee Creek Park (USCOE) (wheelchair accessible)
  Gees Bend Park
  Holley's Ferry Park
  Millers Ferry Dam, East (wheelchair accessible 1-251-690-3005) and West Bank tailwaters
  Millers Ferry at Roland Cooper State Park (wheelchair accessible)
  U.S. 28 Bridge (old bridge structure), east and west bank

For more information about bank fishing in the freshwaters of southwest Alabama, contact the District V Fisheries Supervisor, Dave Armstrong.

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