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Wilson & Leary Win Back2Back Jakked Baits Tournaments

November 12, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville November 12th 2018, Fall has arrived with some cold wind.. But the Bass Fishing has shown some great improvement in the last 5 days, with the numbers going down and the quality going up the fun has just begun.

Eric Wilson And I Won the Jakked Baits Tournament on Saturday with 18.36lbs with a 6.12lb Big Bass and the weather wasn’t the best, the 1st nasty cold front rolled in with high winds and a strong cold north wind that made the fish sluggish and when it should of made them strap the feed bags on and go to chewing.. It wasn’t easy to say the least, we had to fight floating grass and grass still growing and the wind, so when one of us would call for the net we kinda had to scream due to having a beanie and hoodie on over our heads we couldn’t hear much, the wind laid down around 1 o’clock and thats when we was able to make a couple of culls that helped in the win.. The New C-Map helped in finding another niched spot by being able to select the depth and the color to make the map pop and the spot scream right here right here then with Lowrance Structure Scan to confirm they was there and ready to eat was the deal..

BACK2BACK wins in this tournament and this was a special one for sure with the unique trophies this was a great one to win.. This tournament will grow more each year with all the work that Tom and his crew do it will be one of the more popular ones on the lake..

The water temp has gotten below 60 and we are catching some crappie while we are bass fishing and this can only lead to more and bigger bass showing up in the weeks to come.

Some of the water is clear and some water is dingy

With Winter around the corner and some of the best SmallMouth Fishing to come we are booking smallmouth trips.

Its Been A Fun Week! Come Fishing and have a chance at some big ones.

As for Guntersville Trips we will have select dates open through December and January email for openings

With Black Friday coming up we will once again offer Gift Certificates at a discounted price but on Cyber Monday On Friday the 23rd we will release what will be discounted, and if your part of our newsletter that goes out then you will receive more info on the discounted items. NEWSLETTER Click the link to signup.

We went Sunday for a few hours and caught all the ones that wanted to bite.. Good Time With A Good Buddy!

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Capt. Jim

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The Guntersville Curve

July 29, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Well they call it dog days of summer for a reason, throw in a full moon and your window of opportunity is very short. and staying focus was key to putting fish in the boat. This past week proved to be one of the toughest weeks that I have seen this year. Early in the week small fish was all we could find. As the week went on the bigger bass started to bite just a little and using the same lures as we have been for the past couple weeks, the Worms and Creature Baits T-Mac & Baby Mad Paca produced the bites… By Friday the bites became very consistent and just like it ought to be. Seems Like The Bass Are In Transition. After they get settled the bite should improve and as we approach the end of summer in a few weeks the frog bite should be just right.

Water Temp 83

Water Clarity 2-3 Feet

Here are some pics :

GUNTERSVILLE BASS GUIDES — FISHER WITH ONE OF HIS BETTER FISH

Fisher was on his way to fish the Jr. Championship up in Kentucky.. Good Luck in your tournament.

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Capt.Jim

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Gone Fishing

June 29, 2018 by Capt. Jim

If you think fishing slows down in the heat, then your thinking wrong.. Yea its hot out, make sure you drink plenty of water… Because you’ll forget while your catching all these bass.. Guntersville is Amazing..

Got to fish with Capt. Tim most of the week, we had a day ….. A day that everyone dreams about when Guntersville is mentioned…
Not a Bad Double

We caught em big and caught em fast!!!

The Sturdivant’s got to see highs and the lows that Gville can offer..

She had her big one almost to the boat .. maybe 10 feet away when it decided to jump and throw the hook… but like I told her, I have these bass trained to get off so that they’ll want to come back and fish again with us… lol all n all been a awesome week.. Its been nothing to catch 30-50 fish a day..

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Guntersville Isn’t Showing Any Signs Of Slowing Down.

June 24, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Guntersville is fishing really well! Catching fish is pretty easy right now and getting the big bites well thats a different story… We are fishing around a lot of fish and we can catch all the 1lb to 3lb fish you want but the bigger bites are taking a little tricks to get them.. And it changes day to day but its all in the weather.. We are using 4×4 Jigs and NetBait Paca Slims Colored tips.. Heres some pics and stories ….

Went to Chicamauga for Eric’s Birthday…. We caught them just about every way you could imagine.. except with spinning gear.. that was only because we didn’t bring any..

Tony joined us for a day of fishing in the rain.. we might of had 30 mins of fishing without any rain… these are the bass we got to take a pic of with out damaging our phones.. Tony caught way bigger ones then what this is showing.. He caught one with a golden eye… theres a pic of it…

The fish are hungry..

These guys here know how to have a good time.. and catch em.. And yes Jay has two pairs of sunglasses…

Got ahold of the FoodLand Pic.

Guntersville is fishing like she use to … its been fun to say the least..

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Have you check out our Guntersville Gear Page?

Have a few Digital Camo Hats Left. Waiting on the New Black Digital Camo Hat To Be Finished.

We have a limited supply of the GBG FLAG shirt in the colors : Black with White ink , Blue with White ink, and Red with White Ink. See Shirts HERE

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Lake Guntersville Is As Fun As It Gets

May 29, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Not only is the fishing awesome the weather is not all that bad. Mornings have started out rather cool and around 11 the heat starts to cook ya but if you can stand the heat then you’ll continue to catch them.. With only one slow day this past week I will have to say it was one of the best weeks for catching Lake Guntersville Bass and having a dang good time.

TVA opened the flood gates later in the week and everyone knows what that does to the bass.. yup the big ones show up, Just ask Sal Pinto he hooked a big ol bass that ended up jumping feet from the boat to show us just how big she really was.. I don’t want to be that guy but it was a double digit.. ( I mean I have seen my share of them this year ) .. I apologize now for the lack of picture taking this week, when we are laughing and saying its just a 3.5 or 4 and toss it back without snapping a pic is my fault . I guess we was wanting pics with them fat girls. And taking pics of 40+ Bass would take up some time. And thats before lunch.

With Alberto moving in to the area and bringing the rain we should benefit from the extra water movement through the dams and should keep the bass set up to be caught.. and keep the water temps down,.

Monday was one of them days Eric and I had set out to put the hurt on them .. something we haven’t gotten to do in a while besides during tournaments , before we got blown off the lake we was working on a huge bag of Guntersville Hawgs…

Speaking of tournaments we fished the 4th annual FoodLand Tournament Hosted by Chris Lane, we flat out had one of those days where we just caught them every place we pulled up .. minus one because of all the floating grass …. we weighed in 15.88 lbs with 3 bass and it got us 12th place and that has been our worst finish this year and in reality it wasn’t a bad finish 12th out of 200 boats.. 3 fish tournaments are pretty much a big fish deal it takes the skill almost out of it and makes it luck.. lucky enough to get a big bite instead of 5 quality bites … We had well over 25 pounds and would of been nice to put them on the scales oh well …

Still waiting on pics of our bass to pop up online so we can get them…

We’ve been staying relatively deep using 4×4 Bass Jigs and NetBait Plastic’s , all the fish we are catching have been located using My Lowrance HDS units either i’ve scanned before the trip and marked them or scanned while on the trip with customers, when your structure scan is dialed in you can really find the ones that have been winning in HIDE N SEEK… not going to give away any details but when we pull up to a ledge we don’t have any company..

Mike and Tommy joined me for two days this past week and remember when I said we had one slow day well it was one of their days, we had a mid morning flurry if we could of landed any of the bass it would of made the day that much better .. Tommy will tell you he had a big one on that just pulled off. These bass seemed to have a really bad temper they hit the bait so hard they jolted you then they just pulled and pulled then jump a few times .. Kinda like kamikaze bass … the their other days was full of catching … Oh and gave each other such a hard time it was like having a comedy show in between catches.. Back to the slow day no matter how slow the fishing was these two made a valid point .. Lake Guntersville is such a beautiful place and the weather was perfect. Check out the sunrise with a little fog.

Heres some pics

This is an old bass .. Bug Eyed and weathered .

Here are some from Monday

Have some new hats available

Water Temp 79-80 in the morning then around 83 at end of day

Most of the lake is pretty clear with a few areas with a stain to it.

Capt. Jim

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Lake Guntersville May 20th 2018

May 20, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville is Hott and so is the weather. Things have not changed too much we are still catching fish and good ones, its just amazing place to be.

Grass is starting to grow really nice now and that is a great thing. Raining almost daily its keeping the water temps in check and pleasure boaters too…

Fish are being caught from 10 feet out to 20 and they are hungry and mean..

Eric and I fished the Guntersville Open on Saturday and we wasn’t too sure on what we would catch, for some reason my morning bites was hit or miss all week but one thing was for sure you could set your watch to 9 am the bite turned on, sometimes you got nice 3 pound fish or you got really nice 4-5 pound fish, also they change up what they was hungry for, some might think its frustrating to keep changing lures but man its so freaking fun to just catch em so thats what our game plan is.. So we flipped a coin on what spot to start on and it was not a bad move heck it didn’t matter where we started the bass was just eating and we caught some and lost some (3) to be exact and we won’t say the size but we will say they was nice ones….. we ended with 21.56 lbs and took 6th

Fished a little week nighter Eric got off early and we gave it a shot and it was so much fun its crazy how you miss fishing with some old faces thanks for letting me fish I really enjoyed it.. we took 3rd with 12lbs it was a 3 fish limit…

We had a slow morning trip but things got so freaking hot at the end of the trip it was every cast and they got bigger…

We are getting into the hot days and I don’t mind staying out all day if you don’t … but if you are about keeping cooler while fishing we are starting the morning and afternoon fishing trips check dates HERE ..

Have a good week.

WATER TEMP 77 ISH

WATER CLARITY ( clear)

FLOATING GRASS IS STILL A PAIN

Capt. Jim

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Lake Guntersville Update May 4th

May 4, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville is slowly shaping herself up. The Bass are coming off their beds and starting to feed up.

The Bite :

It has been slowing up after 11 a.m. then picking back up around 5 p.m. and that full moon wasn’t helping matters but thats all behind us now, And after Saturday Neely Henry will be behind me as well, been on the coosa all of this week except Monday and Thursday…

So Monday went well in the morning but the mid day was brutal not many bites and little wind, and Thursday well it was freaking awesome. My clients are here for a tournament and its looking promising I can tell you this much I showed them a lot of spots and fished about half of them and caught fish… We had some grown girls..

And now that the weather seems to be leveling out I suspect the fishing will just keep getting better..

Water Temp: 68 is temporary its going to keep climbing

Visibility : its still a little stained not really clear

Been Swimming a 4×4 Jig in all white with a NetBait Little Spanky 3/8 oz

Heres Pic’s From March 31st Freedom Marine Tournament. Eric and I took 4th

May is upon us we have dates open. Check Open Dates HERE

Capt. Jim

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256-698-6593

Guntersville vs Mother Nature Round 2

March 8, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville had another round of rain, high water, low water, and multiple cold fronts and surprisingly the bass still bit.. It might not of been as easy as fishing in a barrel but once we learned what they preferred we went back to catching them. Oh and we seen yet another 10 pound Bass!

Id say the Big G won…

Water Temp is holding around 55 degrees

Visibility : Clearing up pretty much from one end to the other.. At Least A Foot We Can See.

Still managing 20+ bass a day so we have dropped back on numbers a little.

They are still moving so we could see one of the best springs ever.. Ive already experienced some of the best bass fishing ever in my life in the last 4 weeks.

Check out some of the pics.

These boys came down from Michigan and caught them.. 40+ bass ..

Went from catching the fire out of them to a extremely slow down and had to adjust with the fishing pressure still managed to catch them just not as many as we became a custom too.

Capt. Shane delivered a new personal best to Chris Meyers.. 10lb wow Congrats to Both the Capt. and Client..

Yup… he caught a little of everything.. and he let his dad hold a couple for the photo app..

Beacon Supply Group treated some of their customers to a fishing trip on Guntersville.

Thank you to both Capt. Shane’s that helped..

The Nash’s always bring the cold fronts with them but still manage to put the bass in the boat.. It sure was not easy with the high gusts and chilly wind chills.. They’ll be back.. since one of them lost one that they couldn’t handle… she started swimming towards the deep water and never checked up and he couldn’t turn or slow her down… not pointing any fingers at him for getting his butt kicked…. the one on the left

She gets so excited over bass.. its like a kid on Christmas morning everyday for her.. You’ll never have to make her go … she usually is at the truck waiting on me every morning.. she wakes up ready to go…

Sat down with Lake City Alabama not to long ago to answer some questions . CLICK HERE to read it (page 12).. the magazine should be available any day now.

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Capt. Jim

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Best September I’ve Seen On Lake Guntersville 10.2.17

October 2, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville really showed out this September. I witnessed some of the best fishing this year so far. Plenty of fish and some really nice ones and plenty.. Seen many bass chasing the hooked one to the boat.

Well its been a very busy 3 weeks for me and I have a lot to share with everyone… even some Chickamauga stuff.

Since the last report I’ve been to Chic for the ABA Team Plus 100% Championship it was a 2 day event, Steve was a day late on getting to the Chic and he had a good excuse he almost won the BFL Buckeye Division Super Tournament on Lake Erie for the 2nd year in a row … he came up short by a couple of ounces but man to win one is hard and to put yourself in contention for a second one is just amazing… Congrats once again Steve Hatfield.. Well we put a weeks worth of work in and it just about paid off and what I mean is we had all the pieces of the puzzle and just didn’t put the last piece in place till early Sunday morning which was the 2nd day , but back up to day one we did what we planned on doing and caught 15lbs and 4th place with one hiccup we let a solid 3 pounder off at the boat that would of jumped us up a pound and a half and a 2nd place so after the weigh in all we did was throwing ideas back in forth till late that night and had a game plan for Sunday and we started where we finished on day one where we caught 3 good ones on top water …. and we did and never had a bite so we packed up and made a long run to an area that we both found but we found 2 different things going on there and this is the part of the puzzle that made it all make sense…. Steve had an absolute giant donkey completely jump over his topwater and never touched it 20 mins later I had a solid 4 do the same thing to mine … well heres the bad part the kind of stuff they was holding on wasn’t everywhere and we needed to learn this during practice so we would try to find some of the right stuff while fishing areas that we knew …. around 11 we decided we would go down swinging and not go catch a small limit but to continue trying to get 5 big girls and we did catch 3 for the day but two was tiny and one was a good one we finished in 16th place.. I can say I’m learning more and more and more things are making sense why I did good in the past in certain time and places and I know when its your time its your time till then you really can’t get to bent out of shape when you don’t win…

BFL Super Tournament :

Well mixed in some practice with guide trips last week and everything seemed to be lining up to be a great oppertunity to win one of these things … Monday was the only day I Practiced all day the others was after guide trips.. And when the 1st two spots pay off with a 5lb and 7lb it really makes it easy to venture out and try to find something off the wall and that I did.. But I couldn’t go out with 1 or 2 rods I had 12 rods on my deck and most of the time that means I’m struggling but this time it was for the simple reason I was running so much different kind of water I was catching them on different baits….. well day one greeted us with some strong north east winds that really made my areas hard to fish and losing 2 quality bass early then to top that I had a big big bass pull off at the boat I watched the hook just come out of its mouth in the clear water it was so heart breaking that fish alone would’ve helped seal the deal .. but I only brought 4 to the scales for 14lbs and one was a 2lb … had me in 14th well things was just a little bit harder then they should’ve been battery died at noon, got stung by a yellow jacket, late night tracking down another agm battery and come Sunday my navionics card wouldn’t load the map so I was with out a map and the wind blew more on Sunday then Saturday so when I tell you when its not your time this is why…. Lost them all Sunday morning they would get me down in the thick grass and get off and they was all big enough to have a 20+ lb sack … as I type this I’m still a little sick to my stomach thinking about it.. but this is why bass fishing is such a humbling sport… well I qualified for the BFL Wild Card on Kentucky Lake.. The down fall is I booked trips around the dates FLW announced a while ago and today in a email they changed the dates and I have trips booked the week of the tournament…. So I’m in a pickle….

With the mats getting right for frogging and the big bass are eating I can’t think of a better time to be fishing lake Guntersville , if you would like to come and see what the big g is all about get your dates booked because when it gets cold your going to wish you would’ve..Flippin and Frogging is what we are doing and a little wormin here and there.. Flipping a B Bug with a 1.5 oz Picasso Tungsten weight in 5-7 feet of water…

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Lake Guntersville August 28th

August 28, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Guntersville is fishing pretty good for August and I might add that its producing big fish daily.. We’ve caught good ones daily and some days we get several. The main thing I’ve notice is what TVA is doing with the water, I’ve been able to pattern what the bass are doing based on what the river is doing and sometimes its really easy and most times it takes minute but once we get it figured it out its kinda like fishing on a private lake …. and its pretty fun… now we have had a day or two where it was down right tuff no water movement no wind lol plenty of bugs though …

Some of my favorite fishing is happening right now as I’m writing this …. FROGGIN Like always not all areas are good you need to do some fishing to find the good stuff. And its been if they blow up and miss they will keep trying till they get it…

And the all mighty C Mac worm is still solid it has been a heck of a worm year and big ones have been eating it.. Been teaming it up with a 3/8oz Picasso Tungsten it comes through the grass so easy..

So I’ve been lucky to get to try out a new spinner bait by Picasso Inviz-Wire PRO it has a swing head and special cupped blades that give off lots of vibration something our bass haven’t felt.. Knock on wood with the swing head they have a hard time throwing the hook so its really a win win .. your wire does not get all bent up and they stay pegged … Guntersville Tackle and Outdoors should be getting there stock of these pretty soon so stop in and check them out.

We are getting some nice topwater bites as well and I see this getting better as the cool nights keep coming.

Eric and I have been fishing a tournament every weekend and coming up just short of a win but the fish we are catching its really reminding us of the good ol days … now its not like we have a honey hole its more like…. well wonder if they are over here so we go there and check and if they are not there its like well maybe its a dock day … what I am getting at is we are just going fishing and its working out for my upcoming trips we can cover some much different types of water in a day that it makes the trips easier to find them for the day..

Remember the Great American Eclipse ? Belle and I went fishing during it and I’m not sure if it helped or hurt the fishing but Belle sure was ready..

Video of the eclipse

So this next part was something that I’ll never forget … I took a mother and son fishing.. we worked hard for the bites that we had , and I felt like it was one of the hardest days I’ve had on the lake .. if you do it enough you have a day when things break mess up or just malfunction. Then you turn the heat up and unplug the wind throw in a few gnats and you might have the picture painted … So the day is nearing the end and Merritt has not given up on the fish and thats pretty impressive and with that said he got a big bite on a C Mac worm and the bass took off to deeper water as he was trying to keep it from going that way the bass got wrapped around my Mercury lower unit and was kinda pinned to the Power Pole so I was not about to let this fish get away I empty my pockets just incase I go in …. so I’m pretty much half way in with my legs still on the boat and the fish decides to swim around and get untangled and heads back to the grass … after a few seconds of fighting we get the bass in the boat… and it was a 4-02 lb and when I say we all was relieved we really was… but thats not the cool part of this… a couple of days after our trip I get a package delivered and it was from Merritt , when he got home he built Belle and I a Lego Bass Boat and wrote a letter to us …. and It really still has me speechless on it… check it out below its really a neat boat…