With full service marinas and fantastic fishing, Pickwick Lake has lots to offer even serious sport anglers. Proclaimed by some to be the best lake in the world to find that trophy smallmouth bass, many anglers have pulled in bass weighing 8 lbs or more. Fishing hot spots await you within short drives from your comfortable cottage to the lake. The reservoir was one of the Tennessee Valley Authority projects on the Tennessee River in the late 1930s, and the lake comprises almost 500 miles of shoreline with a surface area of 43,000+ acres.