LL Heath Lake is part of the Rocky Mountain Public Fishing Area. It is located about 5 miles west of Hwy. 27 in Armuchee,GA. Heath is what we that fish it call the "trophy lake" It is only open on the first 10 days of the month and is managed for trophy bass. It is also filled with decent crappie,bluegill and shellcracker.They also have stocked the lake with hybrids and channel catfish. Heath is part of a system that is similar to Racoon Mtn. They pump water to the top of a mountain then let it fall back through turbines to generate electricity. Heath Lake is a little over 200 acres and has some great fish features, shallow,deep,stumps,dropoffs,channels and several manmade fish attractors. $3 parking pass allows you to fish from legal sunrise to legal sunset. Gas motors of any size are allowed but only at idle speed. Best of all is no jetskis are allowed and although there are some pleasure boats on occaision they have to abide by the idle speed rules too.
There are two other lakes that are part of Rocky Mtn. PFA. They are Antioch East and Antioch West. One is about 200 acres and the other is about 300 acres. Fishing,camping,swimming and picknicking are allowed at these lakes all year long. Antioch east and west lakes are some great crappie and panfish lakes and have some fair channel cats too. The photo in my avatar is a 19 pound channel that came from the east lake last year.
I kept my freezer full from these lakes from '03 through '05. They are full of fish and pretty easy to catch.
You must have a valid GA fishing lisence and all the normal safety stuff on your boat. No alchohol is allowed and is enforced. The facility is run by the Georgia DNR in cooperation with Oglethorpe Power. Needless to say the place is crawling with game wardens but in the hundreds of times I have been they have always been real nice to me even when I stayed 45 minutes past sunset and was the only one on the lake.(just can't leave biting crappie you know).
The ranger just told me to get my boat tied down and get out so he could go home before his wife chewed him out.
PM me if you want to go sometime. I can put you on some panfish in any of the 3 lakes.
Cheez
