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Guntersville Bass n Crappie March Cold Front

March 20, 2023 by Capt. Jim

Here We Are After One Of The Nastiest Cold Fronts You Could Possible Have. With 3 Weeks Of Nice Weather ( 70s & 80s degrees ) We Get Slammed With Low 30s & Wind. All the progress of the spawn has been put on hold, at least for a few more days. This week we are expected to see temps in the high 70s so things will start to get moving back in the right direction.

Fishing had gotten tough with a lot of the bigger ones being difficult to catch our clients have tricked a couple into biting.

Water temps 54-57 in most parts right now Water clarity is 2-3 foot and some areas are stained from this high winds

Crappie! The crappie didn’t care about the weather they bit good and some pretty dang big ones too. ( see pics below ) It’s been fun and the slabs fill up a freezer pretty good too! Client caught a 2.30lb Crappie!

here are some pics

It’s all looking good from here on out that should be the last of the brutal cold! And I know I’m ready for warmer weather and the bass are for sure.

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Capt. Jim

Madness Of March Has Begun 2023

March 5, 2023 by Capt. Jim

Above Temperatures Has The Bass With Only One Thing On Their Mind…. So If You’re Waiting Till April To Catch Them Off The Spawning Flats Then You’ll More Then Likley Miss The Party! We had a angler break his personal best twice in one day!

You can tell it has things a bit messed up with one day you’re catching them good and the next day you’re catching bass but not many and they are above average. It’ll be like that for a little while till it all catches up.

With Water Temp In The Low 60’s it been great weather to go fishing for both Bass And Crappie!

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Capt. Jim

15 Years Experience On Lake Guntersville

SPECIAL BLUE LOGO GEAR

January 28, 2023 by Capt. Jim

We are doing one more run of the new Blue logo Hoodie, Ball Cap, & Beanie Gear.

They Take about 10 days from the day we stop taking orders since they are special order only. Orders are taken over the phone or through email, will need to know how many what sizes and shipping address. We accept all major credit cards, debit cards, and venmo

HOODIES (S,M,L,XL) $45 add $5 for these sizes (XXL,XXXL,XXXXL)
BALL CAPS $35
BEANIES $20

February 4th 2023 is the last day we will accept any orders.

Boyd Beats Best Bass

January 26, 2023 by Capt. Jim

Boyd Haynes Knoxville ,TN Catches His Personal Best Bass On Lake Guntersville. Boyd a longtime client of Guntersville Bass Guides (9 years) caught his personal best bass the morning of January 19th 2023 it was also his first bass of the new year. Thats kicking the year off right. His Bass weighed 7.23 LBS he caught several more bass that day nothing like his first bass but it was a great day.

Guntersville is looking good for the grass, the amount of the good grass is the best I’ve seen in years. We still have that Eel grass and on certain days its the deal. We’ve been doing our best on quality, our average size has been up compared to other years around this time of year. The bass are using the grass like they should and when you get that 1st one to go then get ready for some fast action since they are in small groups and feeding good at certain times of the day. We have several way to catch them at the moment so its a good time to catch some bass.

Water Temps: 48-51 degrees with water clarity 1-2 feet

February is looking like it will be a great time to go after the big ones. And of course March is the top month for big ones based on our opinion even though February has put out some giants as well… Don’t think you can go wrong with either month.

James and Capt. Jim fished the New Years Day Open and took 2nd with 23.26lbs and 1st was 23.41lbs talk about it being close …

We have taken up crappie fishing look on the site for the crappie trip info

Heres some pics

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Capt. Jim

What A Summer On Guntersville

August 28, 2022 by Capt. Jim

Guntersville Gave Up Some Big Bass The Past Few Months And We Enjoyed Immensely! We saw a solid deep bite that lasted for a good time. Seen schools like we did back many years ago and they bit didn’t have to work to hard to have a big bag day in and day out. I even got in some weeknight tournaments having 16lbs in 3 bass was just fun and throwing back countless 4 pounders! Clients had days they’ll remember for a long time to come! Got to take two members of the Brittish Parliament and Congressman Robert Aderholt Fishing one evening it was honor to do so, also took 3 gentlemen that are 100% Native Indians learned so much about them and their tribe.

Be sure to check out our pics. We have to focus on what we hope to be a year we all have been waiting on. Froggin….. Seeing a lot of grass topped out and its the good grass now all we need are some cold nights and cold fronts and things will get interesting. September and October Should produce so awesome frogging.

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Capt Jim

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Guntersville In All 3 Stages

April 25, 2022 by Capt. Jim

April Has Been Pretty Good. With Some Nice Bass Being Caught! The weather is now on a warming trend and it has kicked the spawn into high gear, its seemed like the bass have been wanting to move up but it seemed like the cold fronts just kept coming and some of the bass did stay up and finished their deal.

All 3 stages are happening, more spawning then pre spawn and some post spawn, Water temps are 67-72 degrees.

In the coming weeks and if the weather keeps warming the bass will begin to make their move deep and by the end of May it should be some good ledge fishing.

Heres some pics from the past couple of weeks.

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Capt. Jim

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No Place Like Guntersville

April 3, 2022 by Capt. Jim

Guntersville Has Been Fishing Rather Good With The Amount Of Unstable Weather. Our Guides have kept up with the bass the past few weeks with long days that are paying off daily with some nice Lake Guntersville Bass.

The Bass have started to spawn but there are still a lot that have just started to move in so I look for the next few weeks to be wide open.

Water temps 58-61 degrees and clarity is fairly good just depends if the wind has been a factor in the area.

Capt.Mike had caught a 9lb 8oz big girl then went back the next day and caught her again. Pretty cool

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Heres Some Pics

Capt. Jim

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Madness Of March Has Started

March 6, 2022 by Capt. Jim

Guntersville Has Been Producing Some Nice Bass Even With Some Crazy Weather. Had a couple of tournaments last month one was the BFL and the other was Toyota Central.

Took 2nd in the BFL with 25-02lbs with big bass of 7-08lbs and the Toyota on day one had 22-05lbs and day two 7-15lbs (3) fish could not keep them hooked on the second day. Ended up in 29th place missed the cut by 6 ounces.

Guide Trips are happening as I type this. Clients have been catching them pretty good with only the best to come as March is just now heating up.

Water Temp is hanging around 55-58 degrees and the water is clearing up by the day from all the rain we got during the Toyota Central Tournament we had 5 inches of rain the night of the 1st day of the tournament.

We can add Poland to our list of clients from other countries

Eric and I won the Sylvania Tournament with 22lbs with big bass of 6.15lbs

Heres some pics.

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Capt. Jim

2021 What A Year

December 29, 2021 by Capt. Jim

We wrap up another successful year on Lake Guntersville. November brought back so many memories of several years ago when it was nothing to go out and have 20+ lbs in the 1st hour of the day and only to end the day pushing mid to high 30 lbs. With the Alabama Bass Trail 100 Series having their last tournament of the year on the 20th or November it has been the only thing I could think about for months, we was leading in the points going into the event, it was ours to lose. Steve and I had another unbelievable day together in the boat, our best 5 went 27.35 lbs. With the win we held on to the Anglers Of The Year Title.

We managed to fit in some guide trips as well, we had the privileged of taking this couple from the Netherlands fishing and Capt. Mike T. had them catching fish in no time.

Spent a couple days fishing with my good friends ( something we don’t get to do very often ) we caught them pretty good just before Adam had to leave us as his baby boy was making a early appearance.

Breakdowns you will have them if you do it long enough. Had a bearing fail on my trailer and if it wasn’t for Chris who knows how long I would’ve been out of commission. Long story short he showed up looked at it and said the Axel was shot so we made a call to the manufacture and they had one so I made the 3 and half hour round trip drive and Chris replaced the Axel at the boat ramp, we finished up at 8:30pm.

Capt. Shane and Capt. Mike have had a great year on the lake, these two really kept customers on fish throughout the year I really appreciate both of these guys on their hard work day in and day out.

Heres some links from the ABT 100

Hatfield and Leary Win Back to Back ABT 100 Bass Events

https://www.alabamabasstrail100.org/wp-content/uploads/ABT100-AOY-2021.pdf

https://www.alabamabasstrail100.org/wp-content/uploads/ABT-100-Lake_Eufaula-2021.pdf

https://www.alabamabasstrail100.org/wp-content/uploads/ABT-100-Lake_Guntersville-2021.pdf

https://www.alabamabasstrail100.org/wp-content/uploads/ABT-100-Lay_Lake-2021.pdf

Fishing has been pretty good with the warmer temps in the mid 50s and water is pretty clear

Heres some pics

We are booking for 2022 now.

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Capt. Jim

Guntersville Wants To be Good…. again

November 10, 2021 by Capt. Jim

Well This Has Not Been A Great November so far. It just seems off like the lake is stuck in a hard transition and we just can’t break out of it. We normally see this type of stuff in September. Water temps are still pretty high 61-65 have been the range I like to see them lower but we have to play the cards that we are dealt.

So fish are being caught some days are better then others and if size doesn’t bother you then you can catch numbers pretty easy ( just remember size is down) now for the bigger ones they are few and far between.

Now these guys had a great trip to Guntersville! They fished hard everyday and didn’t know how to give up, and that is what it takes to put fish in the boat just a lot of casting and laughing.

Things are looking like we need a some cold weather to kick these bass into some fall feeding , yeah theres some feeding happening but its no where near what I am use to, so it is a waiting game!

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Capt. Jim

Guntersville Bass n Crappie March Cold Front

Madness Of March Has Begun 2023

SPECIAL BLUE LOGO GEAR

Boyd Beats Best Bass

What A Summer On Guntersville

Guntersville In All 3 Stages

No Place Like Guntersville

Madness Of March Has Started

2021 What A Year

Guntersville Wants To be Good…. again

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