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TopWater Fishing Lake Guntersville 10-5-18 Updated 10-7-18

October 5, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Heres an update for Lake Guntersville :

Water temp was 77 degrees in the mornings and the Most recent is 82 at the beginning of the day,

TVA keeps fluctuating the water .. And that is hurting the frog bite. A lot of it is from the rain we just had but dang.

So what does all this mean? The bass are confused maybe.. heck you can’t catch them in the same area back to back days.. But when your run into them you make sure you knock their lights..

These pics above are from an flat out awesome day of Frog Fishing .. You might recognize the two guys….

Had a day of days this past Monday. It was a blast..

Now these pics are from a couple of weeks , with the fishing about to pick up we will be posting weekly again.

**** UPDATE****

Seen an increase on action on Saturday. A lot of Bites just the big girls just are not comfy yet with all the ups and downs… I feel by the end of the week this place will be crazy.. First real cold front coming, TVA taking the bottom out of the lake, Grass topping out all over, Hurricane coming in from the Gulf… Should make for some awesome fishing…

We have a guide open for most days in October, no promises but theres a good chance we can get you on the water.. Check out below for booking info…

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Capt. Jim

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Guntersville And Chickamauga Bass Fishing

September 12, 2018 by Capt. Jim

September on Lake Guntersville… Is already fishing better then August, for as long as I have fished here September has always been the struggle month and this year its showing signs of being unbelievably one of the best months.. Why ??? No Clue … But we will take it..

The Bite Picked Up the Thursday before Labor Day and it stayed strong the next week, between trips and practice for the BFL it was call your shot, things was looking like 25-30lb sack wouldn’t be out of the question for the 1st day of the Super Tournament. No clue what changed in less then 12 hours, it sucked the big fish vanished in most of the areas , there was one area they was still in and feeding but pretty much impossible to catch… It was really one of them days where if it could go wrong it did and well it did .. Have you ever had braid go in between your thumb nail and skin and go in 1/4 inch? that was just one of the things, well I managed to catch two 15inch bass and I knew I just needed to weigh one to make the regional, but at the end of the day I really didn’t feel like going through weigh in .. I was truly miserable and disgusted with my lack of ability to relocate them or make them bite when it counted. Theres still a chance I could get a call to go I’m 59th in points 45 gets a invite 5 are doubled qualified so 8 guys would have to turn it down, then again I could go to the wild card and see..

So Sunday the 2nd, went to Chickamauga with Davey and Preston from Virgina, It was one of them days. We caught em good.. And it was a little windy at times.

I was lucky enough to land 3 Big Bass and 1 Decent one, and the one I lost on the cast before the pic with me holding up 3 fingers was an absolute monster of a bass, she thought she was a tarpon. Got her within 5 feet of the boat and she jumped one last time and slung the bait… but the next cast I caught another big un..

Preston caught the 1st one of the day and a few more and Davey does what Davey does . He gets in on the action catching him a good one.. It wasn’t an easy bite but once they got the feel for it they started getting them.. You might not be able to tell but they had been up for like 36 hours at one point in the day, and thats from not knowing where they wanted to fish… Left Virgina and headed south Saturday morning stopped at Chic and night fished then drove to Guntersville and got to my house at 4 a.m. then we loaded up and drove back to Chic and fished till dark.. They was Team No Sleep..

We Had A Blast.

So came back to Guntersville and to the fish that I had found on Thursday ….. yea they moved.. but we relocated some and managed to get some, but once again it wasn’t a easy bite …

As you can see they got right already this week.. Didn’t get a chance to take any pics Monday it just rained all day, I fished with Joe from Kentucky Lake and we caught plenty of fish and lost plenty too..

Sorry you had to look at the selfies but when your alone or just trying to be sneaky with out showing all the other people out there you have one you do what you gotta do.

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Water Temp 81

Clarity 2-3 feet

Grass is still just under the surface In majority of the lake

Capt. Jim

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Guntersville 8.6.18 🐸

August 6, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Its starting to look like things are lining up.. Lake Guntersville is getting herself back together after a slow down a couple weeks ago.. Still a lot of moving going on as the bass are trying to figure out what they want.. But one thing is for sure the big ones are still there and mixed in with the elementary size bass.

Grass… Yes the grass is starting to develop in to mats in select areas and has given us some great action… And this heat is bad but it will make fishing the mats even better as it cooks the top layer and gets all cheesy ..

Water Temp : 86

Clarity is 3 feet

Heres a few pics:::

Eric and I went out for a couple of hours to try to figure out the big bite and it seems we got a start on it.. with them being within 10-15 yards from where I’ve been guiding just hunkered down a little more then we have been fishing…

We have had a fun week out here, looking forward to the transition into fall and see what is in store for us…

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Capt. Jim

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Still Just Fishing

July 7, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Fishing Continues To Be Awesome! Guntersville Is Still Producing. And Its July.

Whats going on out here? The bass keep biting, but its not all easy, we just keep adjusting and its producing.

Water Temp 83

Clarity 2-3 feet

Heres Some Pics

Brian had them dialed in from beginning to end of the day.

Kent with his big un Tate with his big un..

Merrit won the most caught. He was on fire.. and he learned to use a baitcaster.. Well Mom had the big one for the two days of fishing a 4-12lbs

Josh Bertus .. Fished a wildcat with me and all we could catch was 4 lbers… took 6th

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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Capt. Jim

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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..

GUNTERSVILLE BASS GUIDES — ERIC WITH A CHICAMAUGA SMALLIE FOR HIS 1ST CHIC BASS

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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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

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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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April 17th Lake Guntersville Bass

April 17, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville Bass are trying to spawn but mother nature keeps letting old man winter show back up… It just keeps getting cold here … maybe 3 days we get to wear shorts then 4 days bundled up in our cold gear .. The water temp is struggling to get over 64 degrees .. I know we have bass that have spawned out bass spawning and still pre spawn, go back a month ago it didn’t matter if it was cold and blowing 20+mph we caught them and we caught them good… and now its like when it gets cold we catch bass but they just are not doing it like they was…

Captain D’s Cast ‘N’ Catchin Tournament was cut short by 2 hours due to the nasty weather that was bearing down on Lake Guntersville and we had our work cut out for us and a short time to get it done… by 11:30 am Eric and I was starting to wonder if we was going to have to put the ol boat on the trailer and call it a day with only 2 keepers … Eric got a bite and it was a dandy so that gave us some hope and 30mins later he hooks another dandy so we are at 4 keepers and its 12:10 pm 5 mins later I get one and its a dandy as well and just like that we have a limit and not a bad one for how the day has gone.. we weighed in 19-13lbs and it earned us 4th place out of 180 boats.. ( still waiting on pics )

Customers have been dealt some crappy conditions all week long and have made the most of it with some nice bass… When this weather gets stable mark my words this place will go bonkers again like last month.. make sure you have your May trip booked and don’t be left out of all the fun..

These two had a day.. had 3 giant bass and several nice bass for the day.. We stumbled on to a pattern that worked for that day and that day only.. the weather just keeps changing and changing the bass behavior ..

This bass was spawning still full of eggs and had blood all over her tail.. we let her go after this pic so she could get her jeans going so we have more beautiful bass like her…