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The Big Bass Are Biting On Lake Guntersville

February 27, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville is really living up to her reputation, of being One Of The Number One Bass Fisheries In The World.

The numbers of bass we are catching daily is really amazing for the spring time ( February ) on a avg day 8 hours 50-70 bass and a 4 hour is 20-30 bass and then if the wind gets blowing hard your going to have a hard time fishing and we did experience that early last week. Tony will be back after his granddaughter is born here in a few days and he will get to enjoy the Madness Of March as I like to call it.

The weather cooperated the rest of the week and we dropped the hammer on them. I was joined by longtime GBG customer Adam for two of the days. We started out with him losing a really nice bass it wasn’t totally his fault it did get acrobatic after the hook set.. then the rest was a blur as we dialed in how they wanted it and the 8 hour trip tuned into daylight til dark..

Day two with Adam …

A lot of the same but we was able to really catch them. Found a staging area and it was plum full of fish and big ones, we was able to sit there for 4 hours and steadily catch them while trying other lures.

Little background on Adam..

1st time he came fishing with me he was using spinning tackle and he still was able catch big ones then I told him if he was to come back frogging he would have to learn how to use a bait caster .. well he learned and two years later he has mastered the bait caster and now the lipless bait. oh yea he likes to go fast he drag races as his other hobby…

And Mike Davis… him and his friend Richie was at Lake Okeechobee and it wasn’t the best fishing and after a week of us just cracking them here on Gville I was able to convince him he needed to be here… so they came for the last 4 days of their vacation. I spent a couple of hours with them when they got here to get them dialed in… He even tried to catch us dinner..

Adam came along for the last time before he started the Police Academy as we looked for more fish for the upcoming BFL and Rat L Trap Open tournaments

And this happen … Another Lake Guntersville Giant. This is really the 4th one between Adam and I in less of a month. My 10-08 & 9-02 and Adam’s 9-15 click the weight to see the pic..Its been a very impressive 2018 .. I mean look I’ve been wearing shorts and working on the tan….

Fished the FLW BFL Saturday and took 16th with 18-14lbs not what I was expecting but ill take it..

Then Eric and I fished the Bill Lewis Rat L Trap Open and just about pulled it off… We took a different approach to the day. Never got in a hurry we actually never went over 40 mph all day and when we locked down on the spot where I caught a couple in the BFL we started grinding with a bite every 45 mins to an hour but they was decent fish had one 3 pounder we needed to get rid of and before that we had a 2 pounder that was culled out when Eric caught a 4 plus with 20 mins to go.. We ended up with 24.62lb with a 7.91 big bass that was only good enough for 3rd big bass but hey we will take it.

Below is a screen shot from Adam’s Facebook post after fishing two days with me.

And now the Madness Of March is upon us and the things that happen in this special time here on Guntersville are beyond magical. Nows the time to book we are booking up and this is not a sales pitch.

Water Temps have been as high as 70 and low as 55 and there is still a slight stain to the water with some more color on its way after the rain that we have had and suppose to get more tomorrow night

Lot of new grass growing all over the lake this is a great thing its been a few years since we’ve had clean bottom with short grass sprouting..

Our best bait has been a Lipless and a solid 2nd is a Square Bill

We use what I believe is the best in equipment so be sure to check out

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4×4
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The logos to the right has the link to their websites so check them out.

Capt. Jim

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Lake Guntersville Best February To Date 2/18/18

February 18, 2018 by Capt. Jim

WOW is all I can say… Lake Guntersville is awesome.. If you like catching fish then its a great time to be on Gville . We’ve had days with 70 bass and big ones too. Im not going to go into many details for one I’m exhausted and two my hands are tore up no joke. I do want to give big thank you to Mike Gerry.. He told me about a a spot that had some good fish on. We caught a good number of fish off it and had a blast!! Thanks Mike

We are covering water and getting bites in almost every place we stop.. now the fish are still not everywhere we just know where they are holding … its almost like calling your shots.

Now these are not two different days … same day Friday 2/16/18 Johnny and Boyd From Knoxville and it was warmer in the morning then it was in the afternoon..

Details:

Water Temp:

58 in creeks

52 on the river

Water Visibility:

Most Creeks 2-4 feet

River 1-2 feet

Lipless Cranks have worked the best in the color of Red

4×4 Swim Jigs White with NetBait Little Spanky White

Square Bills in Red or Chartreuse ( rip rap ) BD Baits

Looking forward to the rest of this week.

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CAPT. JIM

256-698-6593

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We want to say Congratulations to Adam Bozarth on catching his personal best on Sat. 2/17/18 in the Goosepond Wildcat 9.88lbs.. We think it was from his Hat and Hoodie… what do you y’all think?

Lake Guntersville FEB 5th Bass Fishing

February 12, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Guntersville is getting a makeover this week. Mother Nature has dumped a lot of rain on Lake Guntersville and with the rain we have current with a average outflow of 123,000 cubic feet per second and raising water 595.5 is the top of the dam and at noon today 2-12-18 the level is 595.18… Mud, yup we have some muddy water and floating logs big ones too.

So what does this mean? We should see some clean bottom and fish grouped up in areas and should make for a great pre-spawn bite leading into spawning time.

So what was it like before all the rain? Well it was pretty awesome. We was finding bass grouped up to where it was every cast and it was pattern I ran from one end of the lake to the other and it offered numbers with big ones ( the big ones was close to the smaller ones in a nitch spot ) If you like to fish a Lipless CrankBait then this is right up your ally.

You might recognize the guy with me… My old buddy Josh Bertus.. Had a Blast Fishing with him!

The one thing that keeps coming to mind is… Its only going to be better then it was last week…. The bass are healthy and strong.

A 1/2 oz Lipless was really hard to beat and to the point of calling your shots color didn’t matter if you had the right retrieve to where the bass had no choice to but eat it..

Now that the mud has moved in and … it changed things .. With Florida strain Largemouth’s it takes them a few days to get use to the mud .. and my main area for this upcoming Ram 100% Team tournament was fine Saturday but Sunday it was rolling mud and we had bites but they just wasn’t holding on the best and would pull off and we stayed with hopes that they’d turn on .. well they didn’t so with 15 mins to go we left and driving along I noticed clean water so I just stopped and started fishing … Caught a good one and 6 others that was decent… yea I was pretty sick and mad at myself for staying married to an area so with no time to make the weigh in we kept fishing and catching just stopping at clean water .. it was kinda stupid but it is what it is..

Its been a long time since I’ve seen February fishing this good… And if history repeats itself March will be nuts..

Water Temp 50-55

Water Color is stained to muddy.

I LOVE THIS PLACE

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Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

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Did You See The Two GIANTS

Lake Guntersville February 5th

February 4, 2018 by Capt. Jim

The Big Girls Are Still Chewing On Lake Guntersville . What a week, Ran into another Donkey took 3rd in the ABA Ram Open On Guntersville….

Beginning of last week things seemed pretty slow until we caught a nice bass and had several bites throughout the day, by midweek things seemed to make some sense …. then come Thursday we had a front coming in and it just seemed like a perfect storm … took all the info that was learned this week and picked out an area and went there and wow is all I can say, we caught em pretty quick and then this big one ( pictured above ) ate and it was just like when the 10 pounder heavy and big head shakes ( yes I thought it might’ve been a catfish ) but lucky me it was a giant bass….

Felt pretty good for the ABA on Saturday ….

I want to thank my co angler Justin Parker …. He did a amazing net job on my big bass … what he did was … the story we all have heard every now and then. .. I was bringing the fish in to get netted and as I was bringing her to the net the hook pulled out and Justin dipped the neat and came up with the bass in the net… I can’t describe the excitement after hugging his neck and fist bumping it was back to work.. The bite had changed from during the week and then changed again from the morning to afternoon .. I can not remember the last time in a tournament when my decisions was the correct ones and everything just clicked… So Justin caught caught a really nice one a 4.68lb … that fish hit my bait and never got hooked I tried for it for several mins and moved and then I heard a hook set and he was bowed up .. That would’ve culled my 1.75 lb runt and I did have 2 nice ones pull off and we did see one of them as it boiled.. Im sure other guys lost some good fish that could’ve changed the outcome but I am thrilled with my finish.

The Lake Is Really Showing Some Incredible Improvement From The Last Two Years, if you catch a 3 pounder in the area then the others seem to be around the same size and the same with larger fish hanging around other big fish, the lipless bite is steadily picking up and keeping my fingers crossed on the weather , really want to see it steadily get warmer to let these fish start to move in from their winter areas to pre spawn areas to the spawning grounds.

The Water Temp

45-47 degrees

The Water Clarity

Clear to Stained

Floating Grass is still an issue

Looking forward to my trips this week it really should be awesome..

Have several February Dates Open.

March Not Many Open Dates 9 total

April Has Around 15 Open Dates

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Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

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10-08 LB LargeMouth Bass Lake Guntersville

January 29, 2018 by Capt. Jim

I want to share with everyone this monster bass. Lake Guntersville has now given me 2 over 10 pounds.

The Fishing has been slow since the last ice off, shad kill is in full effect and the bass have had it pretty easy on getting a good meal. And the water temp has not climbed very much seems like what we gain during the day we lose at night. So to see a fish of this caliber in January is a great sign for more when the weather starts warming up.

I was using 4×4 Bass Jigs 1/2 Brandon McMillan Swim Jig With a NetBait Paca Punch.

The Rod and Reel are Duckett Fishing Black Ice Rod and 320 Reel

And Line is Sunline Sniper 16 pound test

even though it is a srwimjig I wasn’t swimming .. I didn’t have any Tharp Heads in the boat so I used the swimjig but I was just dragin it slow on the bottom. Kinda thought I had a drum or catfish just because it head shakes felt like it was rolling .. I guess the head shakes was just bigger then what I’ve been a custom too…

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Capt. Jim

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1st Outing 2018 Lake Guntersville & Shad Kill

January 13, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville was a fun place to be this week after the ice off, the largemouth was fired up and hungry and you didn’t have to guess if you had a bite or not you just about lost your rod if you didn’t have tight grip on it. Fished two and half days and caught some really nice bass.

One of the 1st things I noticed was that the shad have left the area where I had been seeing them the most and they was really no where to be found, this is good means its cold enough to kill some and group them up in deeper water… and thats just where I found them and I found plenty of hungry bass with them. And just because they are hungry didn’t mean they was feeding like crazy but they would eat in short periods you might catch 3-4 then have nothing for awhile, so after picking up on that I started looking for more pods of these fish so I can rotate them out and keep catching… and it worked like it should.. The next couple days they changed and left some of the areas and moved into grass and scattered and you really had to cover water to get your bites but once again you’d get a few and most of the time if one was a 5 the rest was just like her but if it was a 3 they was around the same size, thats a great sign in my eyes means the big fish are setting up shop and owning an area.

Water Temp : well its cold 1st day 37 2nd day 40 3rd day 45 degrees

Water Clarity : Very clear for most of the lake with some stained areas

Grass : Still Plenty of it, did notice where the ice was that grass is going away.

This Cold Snap : I hope to see more shad die off and grass dissipate to where we just have some clumps here and there.

Just keeping the fishing simple. 1/2 oz jigging spoon for the deep bass then the grass bass Boyd Duckett BDJ Jerkbait 115 In Bloody Tennessee Shad.

And for my guest K he brought his own baits and the fishing world isn’t ready for them just yet.

Its almost about time for the season to get cranked up and dates are filling up daily and my openings are getting slim.

For every angler that fishing with me this year they will receive a Custom Guntersville Bass Guides 2018 Lake Guntersville Shirt. ( Pics Coming Soon )

Capt. Jim

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

Guntersville 2018

January 2, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Here we are, its 2018 and Lake Guntersville is still producing big bass. Mother Nature greeted Gville with a massive cold front on New Years Day, on Saturday we had our annual New Years Day Tournament and we seen a lot of nice 5 fish limits at weigh in time. The water temp was 49 degrees and the water was clear and after the 2nd day of the temps being below 32 I and going to take a guess and say they are 45ish. Picture this …. Crossing Browns Creek this morning looking towards the big river bridge there was steam coming off the lake … okay this is something we see in October mostly …. so it was 18 degrees this morning and the water has to be in the mid 40’s I’ve never seen that this time of year ever.. It was neat to say the least.. Back to the tournament 23 lbs was the winning weight with a 8 lb toad. Eric and I had 18 lbs wasn’t good enough to win by a long shot, the lake changed in 1 day well TVA stopped pulling water through the dam and the fish I had been on just didn’t want to do much, we could only catch 1 fish off a spot and we fished about every spot he and I ever fished that we caught a 5 pound of better fish so we was from 5 feet to 30 feet of water and caught fish some was good and some didn’t make the team.

This is a good sign in my eyes, what I mean is go back 3-4 years ago we didn’t have smaller fish hanging out with the bigger ones they kind of grouped up by size more .. and recently they’ve been commingling and here in the last week I really noticed they have split up and grouped up by size.. I believe we have rebounded from our senior bass passing away and we had some bad years of spawns which have left a void of larger fish and now It seems that our bass are thriving and mean as ever… Will we see more 30lb bags maybe will the mid 20’s be a great bag? I think so and I think if you don’t have 20lbs you might not get a check its looking like our bass are growing up and we need to do everything we can do to see that we keep having great spawns…

Guntersville is still full of green grass, I’m sure this cold will change that some. Last few trips we have targeted grass with Lipless Cranks, Jerk Baits, and Square Bills one of the keys have been getting the bait hung up in the grass and popping it out and on the pause is when the strikes have occurred. Color has not made that much of a difference up to this point with the cranks, now on the jerk baits Black and Chrome and Blue and Chrome have been the best .

I did go over to Pickwick on Christmas Day and fished with Taylor Luna, we did get cold but it was worth it..

My customers that fish with me will receive a custom T-Shirt on the day of the trip..

I’ll have some pics soon of the shirts

For Booking A Fishing Trip: Call 256-698-6593 or EMAIL

Capt. Jim

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Guntersville Bass Grass Water Temp

December 22, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville… The Bass have not had much of a break this winter with anglers on the lake daily and this might be from the warmer temperatures and with this they still seem to be pressured to where they just won’t stay long in a area.. Not saying big fish are not being caught because they are and not just by one angler just not many in a day. Just cover water and you’ll catch fish and its fun and this is makes me think that 2018 will be a great year just a little better then 2017 and a lot better then 2016 we are on a upward trend.. With the warmer weather the grass is still green and thick oh and a lot of floating grass, it does make it tough fishing but if we didn’t have the grass I wouldn’t be writing about Guntersville I would probably be in a job wishing I was fishing..

Depth: Well most of the bites are around the 6-8 foot range, did have a couple bites in 16 foot range but they was small.

Lures: JerkBait was the go to when the wind was non existant catching handful of nice Guntersville Bass, when the wind picked up I was able to chunk a Lipless Crank around and getting plenty of bites but with the wind it made it hard to see the floating grass. So went to rock and did some cranking with a Medium Diving Crank and was able to get just a bit better size but not many. Water is still very clear so I kept with shad color on these hard baits.

Water: seen some 54 degree water today and seen 49 degree and I got bites so the temp isn’t playing a factor in the bite as of today. And its very clear I suspect that to change when the muddy water from the recent rains make it down river.

The Last Few weeks I took some ME time and went chasing The SmallMouth Bass on the nice days ( hey I treated it like a vacation .. didn’t want to be cold lol )

It did take me a little longer then I thought it would to figure them out , they don’t act like Lake Erie Smallies so I had to do a lot of fishing and learning but it was well worth it.. Heres a few pics of some..

ERIC WILSON

Fished a Pride Of The South Northern Tournament On Wheeler Last Saturday 12.16.17 placed 7th with 3 bass… Had 12.88lbs my bag had this. A Spot A SmallMouth 4.55lbs and a Largemouth 6.60lbs my day can be summed up like this 5 bites hooked 4 landed 3 and the one that I seen was a twin to the smallmouth I weighed.. Did get Big Bass ..

And the Black Friday Tournament out of Waterfront started off great we had 20 n half pounds by 9:30 with a 2lb spotted bass around 11 we checked on the fish and we had a 4lb bass not feeling well and I’d rather take a stick in my eye then kill a bass, we let her go and had to really work at filling the limit and getting rid of the spot… we managed to get a twin to the spot and that was it no up grades and lost 2lbs we had 18lbs.

I know its been a month since I’ve posted but here are the pics of my last trips before I took a mini vacation

Belle got her Christmas shopping done earlier this week and she’ll be ready to go for 2018 and as for myself as well.

Heres how the bookings have been going:

January 1/4 full
February has 4-6 dates booked
March is just. about full
April is half filled up

If you have some dates in mind, now might be a good time to inquire about the openings BELOW

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Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

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Guntersville….. Keeps Getting Better

November 13, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville is still showing why she’s a beast when it comes to Lakes especially on the Tennessee River. Producing bass and big ones at that. I had to leave her as the big ones started to bite to go to Kentucky Lake for the BFL Wild Card and man did I miss the ol girl… Kentucky has bass and nice ones at that but that lake will fluctuate a lot and not to mention the asian carp have taken over that lake ( lets hope we never get them here) !! I started dialing in the big bites before I left and man was it a blast. Wish I could’ve stayed a few more days…

I noticed that they was getting on an old pattern from several years ago.

If it continues we will see some giant bass in the near future. The key will be the weather.

Hard to think that Black Friday is just around the corner. Ive had a few ask what will I be offering for it…. And I’ve put some thought into it and I’m pretty sure there will be some great deals for the one day… Check back on the website on Black Friday.

Enjoy the pics

Have a few dates open for November and December for booking info click HERE

Water Temp starting at 58 and finishing around 63 degree

there are some mud lines and then there is clear water, lot of floating grass and that is making it frustrating to fish but if we didn’t have the grass we wouldn’t have the bass..

Capt. Jim

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

If you noticed a new design hoodie I’ve been wearing in the pics and want to get your hands on one….. Black Friday will be when they will be available..And there will be a Black Friday Sale..

Lake Guntersville Fishing Is Strong

October 29, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville Bass Fishing has been pretty strong .. take out the high wind days and its been awesome.. but no joke the wind has been brutal and has messed up a lot of good fishing areas.. if it wasn’t for Power Poles then we wouldn’t of caught any fish, the wind would push you through the area so fast if you didn’t have your poles down, they are worth their weight in gold.

Froggin is just about over but I still have couple of mats that are jammed up with good bass. Been having a blast on topwater and still flipping Net Bait B Bug and swimming a 4×4 Jig.

The bass are on the move and the bait is everywhere. With these cold fronts we have been having in such a short period it has hit the fast forward button and they are trying to get to where they need to be.

I had a special guest a couple weeks ago.. Jason and Evan McMillion .. They won the fishing trip from Fin Feather & Fur in Ashland Ohio. It was a all expense paid trip .. Travel Lodging Food and Fishing.. Pretty sweet prize.. They stayed at the Wyndham Garden that sits right on the lake and enjoyed one of my favorite places to eat. So if your in Ohio and want to see a really awesome store then stop by the Ashland location…

And to top it off Evan caught his Personal Best LargeMouth and it was his 1st lake Guntersville Bass.. This kid is ruined now.. 5-12 lbs

enjoy……

Things got right and was proud to put Allen on his Personal Best as well …..

Been using the Duckett Black Ice Rod every trip to the lake and I am still blown away by the little things that I feel and this past week with the bigger bass that I’ve been catching and seeing how it loads up and handles during the fight is absolutely awesome. This line of rods will be on everyones wish list…

Here are dates open in November 13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,27,28,29,30

CLICK HERE TO BOOK or Call 256-698-6593

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Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

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