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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

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

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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…

GUNTERSVILLE BASS GUIDES — CRAPPIE SAMWHICH

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

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

Lake Guntersville May 13th Post Spawn Fishing

May 13, 2018 by Capt. Jim

We went from 50 Degrees to 90 Degrees in 2.5 Days.. Lake temp is hitting 80 at the end of the day and starting out at 75 degrees. No current or wind and that would normally make fishing hard… One would think that. Its been a messed up spring here on Lake Guntersville but the fishing stayed strong really strong and still is..

Eric and Myself fished the Sylvania fund raiser tournament Saturday out of Goosepond and took 2nd place with 19.62 lbs we just are not getting the big bite , we are managing quality just like during my trips, customers are getting the big bites.

The bass should be done spawning but don’t hold me to it, lot of other species are moving up to do their thing .

Top water bite should happen any day now and so should the massive push to the deeps, or will they stay in the grass with the shad?? either way its going to be fun….

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Do you like the heat?

Not many do so we offer 4 hour morning and afternoon trips to beat the heat.
If the heat doesn’t bother you then your gonna want to be out there mid day with us.. the hotter it gets the bigger they get

Check out last weeks pics.

I want to brag about Duckett Fishing for a min..

With them being local I get the opportunity to stop in and see whats coming on the horizon for the fishermen, and the amount of work and effort goes into making the product perform to the highest standards of Bassmaster Elite Anglers. The new Black Ice rods are by far on a level of superior. In my opinion and every customer that has tried one of the ones I have all say they cant believe how light and sensitive they are.. Once these hit your local tackle stores go and put your hands on them and see what my customers are talking about.. Boyd Haynes and Johnny Welch I know you guys will be the 1st ones buying one for sure..

We have days open just click HERE to check to see when we can take you fishing.

Capt Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

Big Thank You To MOE

he fixed my oil leak late Saturday evening so I could do my guide trip on Sunday.. If you don’t know Moe then you need to stop in at Freedom and get to know him.. Top Notch

MOE KNOWS

Lake Guntersville June 12th 2017

June 12, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Has the dog days of summer started? By 11 o’clock it was almost unbearable with no wind and mid 80’s we called it a day. We did manage 8 fish and lost a few more, the lack of current really made them lazy. We had to fish pretty slow but when you get it near one they popped it pretty good. ( 4×4 Bass Jigs Ledge Hammer with NetBait T-Mac)

Thomas and I fished the Sylvania Football Ram Classic out of Goosepond , we caught what we weighed in pretty early which wasn’t a whole lot of weight but it got us 3rd place. 15.30lbs

Last week was a good week with some great customers and one day was a tournament prep day which means no pics… We fished mainly deep last week and will continue to till they leave or just get to stubborn to catch. And will be checking the grass more as the heat sets in, now last year they left the grass and stayed on the ledges so who knows what they’ll do..

We did find a new school today that has not been out at all this year so maybe more are on the way.

Have days open in June 18,19,20,26,28,29,30

In July I will be offering discounted 4 hour morning and afternoon trips call me for pricing 256-698-6593

Capt. Jim

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

June 6th 2017 Lake Guntersville / Kentucky Lake

June 5, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Its been a busy 12 days for me, finished up the week before Memorial Day weekend with some good trips on the Big G then left for Kentucky Lake early Saturday morning for the Triton Owners Tournament.

Kentucky Lake is a massive body of water so Steve and I had some areas that we wanted to check to get us a starting point. The Bass seemed to be in transition with very few out on ledges in that area of the lake, on the 2nd day I found a school with some giants in it (pic below) and I hooked 5 in 10 cast just because it was fun…… after that I hardly fished the next 4 days just idled and scanned the ledges with our Lowrance HDS 12’s, between Steve and I we found 7 schools. So being boat 316 out of 400 we didn’t think we would get to fish anything that we found so we headed to the 1st waypoint in no hurry at all like 45 MPH for 20 miles and to our surprise when we got there not a single boat was within 150 yards after getting on the waypoint Steve’s 1st cast was a solid 4 lb and it was pretty much a beat down for an hour. So we rode 40 miles to the spot we wanted to start on for day 2 to see if it was found and to check it … well once we got on the waypoint I made a cast and had another 4+ pounder that didn’t help so we left and hunted more places and after awhile we decided it was best to weigh in early, the fish have been in the livewell for a long time and even though they looked fine we just wanted them to stay that way… we weighed in 3 for 14.65lbs had us tied for 27th..

Day two we was boat 84 and had a short day, we started where we wanted to and boy was it different no bites … they moved.. go figure a typical Tennessee River deal so we idled around and located a few and got them to bite we lost a dandy and caught 3 that went for 6lbs .. not what we had in mind.. We started running waypoints all the way back down the lake with little luck till we ended up at the spot where we caught them on day one and still had no real weight to speak of … We agreed on fishing new water and fishing a few spots that we found that we never casted on that had one or two fish when we scanned them, well we got to a waypoint that Steve had caught a good one earlier in the week and not a boat was around so we stopped and started casting and nothing was happening, and out of no where this pleasure boat runs over the ledge we are fishing and I threw in there after he passes and I get a bite we land it and cull then Steve catches one and Im culling and my lure is still in the water and he starts using my rod and asks for the net and I hadn’t even gotten his fish culled or his lure out of the net so Im netting this 5lber with his bait in the net … I’m still in the bottom of the boat culling and he hooks up again and we net it and continue culling .. did I mention when we pulled up to this spot we only had 20 mins to fish? well we made few more cast and we had to go to get checked in … if we only had more time we could’ve ran a few more areas like the one that saved our butts.

We weighed in 12.20lbs for a 2 day total of 26.85 that got us 28th place out of 400.

This tournament is by far the best ran tournament I’ve ever fished in with 400 boats the blast off was very smooth and the weigh in was as well.. You can tell they put a lot of effort into it and it showed. The other impressive thing was Earl Bentz on day two he remembered us and our day one weight and he told us we should get a good check and my response was “you think? ” and he was like yep, and I was like no I think we will come up short and he said you wanna bet $100 …. I declined the bet needless to say.

Now to Guntersville the bass had been making their way to the ledges pretty strong and when I got back and headed out I did find some out and they was pretty hard to catch so we had to move in to get our bites , so its like they are moving away from the fishing pressure or just moving up with the moon either way the ledges don’t have as many as they did 12 days ago.. The water temp was 79 and clear..

We caught our bass on 4×4 Football jigs with Paca Slims and 4×4 Ledge Hammers with T-Mac’s fishing 10 foot range.

Did see some schooling bass but they just didn’t stay up long but they are feeding up still and the bite should continue to stay good.

Flippin is not to far away so now is a good time to get your trip booked. 256-698-6593

Dates Open June 11,13,14,18,19,20,26,27,28,29,30 half and full days