Fish attractors placed in Weiss Lake

Alabama Power partnered with students from the Cherokee County High School Fishing Team and the Weiss Lake Improvement Association to build and deploy fish attraction devices (FADs) to enhance the fish habitat at Weiss Lake.  The high school anglers teamed with local fishing guides to build the FADs buy taking lengths of bamboo and placing them in concrete blocks filled with mortar. After drying, the FADs were loaded onto Alabama Power boats and placed in strategic locations in the lake.  Over 130 FADs were built to place in the lake near the Little River Marina and took several hours to deploy. Local fishing guides worked with Alabama Power personnel to select the locations where the FADs were placed.   The program is part of Alabama Power's Habitat Enhancement Program. They have been deploying fish attractors on state lakes since 1993.