Wheeler Reservoir’s 2nd Creek: Lurking Beneath The Headwaters

If you’re on the north side of Wheeler and just short of the dam, you are at the first creek entering into the impoundment; this is Second Creek. If you were at the second creek entering Wheeler, you’d be at First Creek. There is no mystery here, just how folk in North Central Alabama do their count’n.

The graphic below (the graphics by the way are the point of this post) shows the dam (red arrow) and Second Creek (green arrow)

Here is Second Creek (most of it anyway). The circle marks the area where I sometimes launch my boat. It’s about a mile from the mouth of the creek.

This is the circled area from the image above. There is a boat launch just above where the star is and each of the arrows points to an underwater bridge or culvert. Also shown are ancient stream beds and now submerged roadways. Its roughly 500 feet from where the boat launch is tow the submerged bridge to it’s left.

The point of all of this is the software that allows me (us) to sit our den and perform a deep-dive map recon on any freshwater lake in the country is free (sometimes). Yesterday I found it on the “Fishing Alabama” website. Link is here