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July 27th The Heat Is Real & So Is The Fishing

July 27, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Wow it’s hot out there and the fishing is really good as well.

Lake Guntersville is really fishing well the best I’ve seen in awhile.

Discovered a new area and we caught them so fast we decided it would be a good opportunity to get a pic together like old times. And just yesterday took Tim fishing doing something totally different from the last month or so and we had a great day and we fished 9 hours in the heat and it just flew by, we caught fish all day and we was doing something that I just absolutely love doing.

I’ve been able to go from ledge fishing to grass fishing and catch them doing this. Some days the deep bite isn’t jiving and the grass is or vise versa.

When we go grass fishing it’s still a great worm bite, now the C-Mac is till producing but we’ve scaled down a little to a Big Thump and it’s like they haven’t seen one before and it comes through the grass real easy.. Keeping with a 3/8oz Picasso Tungsten. 8 foot seems to be the sweet spot .

Now when we go out deep we use Lowrance Structure Scan to locate them then I can determine if they are in a feeding mood or not. We’ve been starting with a 4×4 Football Jig in Green Pumpkin with a NetBait Baby Paca Craw and if that’s not it then it’s a big C-Mac 15 inch on 1/2 oz Tungsten.

This bass was pictured twice.. its in his right hand in the pic with him and his grandmother. I wanted to share this pic the bass is toad and he caught her when it was tuff but that was the bite that ignited the school we proceeded to catch them for 15 mins straight. ( and yes they all swam away like always)

Chloe wanted to fish Lake Guntersville for her 17th Birthday..

If you can handle the HEAT then your going to catch em.

So Tim and I went and threw us a frog around and we caught em . So it’s never to early to try one. I can’t wait to get out there and throw it some more it’s a blast….. Wanna go froggin? Let’s go , give me a call.

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Capt. Jim

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Guntersville Is Looking Strong

July 19, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Since my last report Lake Guntersville has not missed a lick. I would’ve thought with this intense heat that the bass would go full blown summer time mode on us.. WRONG its been the complete opposite getting plenty of bites and some are Hawgs but all in all its been a blast.

NetBait C-Mac is still holding strong.

4X4 Swim Jig with a Lil Spanky has been a great bait to cover water and find some active bass

The BullShad has had a few days where it just blistered them.

Been fishing all 3 major types of grass Hydrilla , Milfoil . & Eel Grass each one has its own pattern and its been depending on what the lake is doing that given day.. TVA that is ..

Think with all the grass we have this year the Frog Bite will be one to remember. Keep checking back for the frog update and I’ll give my predictions on when you need to book your frog trip this year. My Die Hard Froggers have already booked their dates … They know what can go down on any given day out here..

Guntersville Bass Guides — CHRIS MOYER FROM DUCKETT MARINE JOINED ME FOR A AFTERNOON OF CATCHING

Congratulations to Thomas McCain.. He won his 1st tournament ever and he did it solo. Think the shirt was the lucky charm..

For Booking you can call me at 256-698-6593 or email me by clicking HERE

Capt. Jim Leary

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Lake Guntersville Bass Fishing July 12th

July 12, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville has been very good to my customers the past two weeks. Catching fish has been a lot of fun and we have caught some good ones mixed in.. These Green Guys sure do cure a lot of illness …..

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Our trips have been producing many bites on a NetBait C-Mac in the grass. When the low light conditions appeared we would get our bites on 4×4 SwimJigs in the same grass.

A few trips was just to catch whatever bites and it was fun to say the least.

Im not a future teller so I’m not 100% sure what will happen with the water heating up this year but one thing is for certain we really don’t know what the weather will do.

The grass is starting to top out over the lake and the bass have started to make their way towards it and that makes the super twitch bite fun..

Water temps have been around 83 but have been getting as high as 88 so the bass seem to be moving around a little but they are still very active..

Looking forward to the Flipping bite .. Ive been doing it a little with some good results but the good times are still ahead..

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Lake Guntersville is still a special place even if we are not catching 25+ pounds a day anglers love catching bass and the bass are delivering ..

Give me a call and we will go fishing..

Electronics Training in your boat.

Tournament Prep

Fun Fishing

Capt. Jim

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Lake Guntersville June 28th

June 28, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Just when we thought it was going to get hot n sticky …. Guntersville received a cool down and a lot of rain from Cindy the Tropical Storm… Water temps dropped to 78 degrees the water stained up and the bass shifted around on the ledges. So what does all this mean… Well from what I can tell is that the shad have gone a little shallower some bass have left the deep stuff the bass in the grass have moved to a different hang out.

Up till the heavy rain and current things was shaping up nicely and just like mother nature would have she threw a wrench in to the fishing… all this means is the Florida Strain Bass get finicky when things change and they tend not to act like we would like them to but they still can be caught.

Catching great numbers and good size in a 4-6 hour trip was more fun then I’m use to .. then the rain and current happen.. changed things up… and now that things are getting back to normal I am starting to find my spots are getting back to how they was before the rain.. Majority of our bass have been caught on a NetBait C-Mac worm with a Picasso 1/4 oz Tungsten Weight in 4-6 feet of water fishing grass to lay downs with a dock or two, some days we would swim the worm or drag it just had to let the bass tell you how they wanted it, we did have a small window of flipping where it was getting. the kicker bites every day we used a Tharp Jig by 4×4 BassJigs with a Paca Craw as trailer in 1/2 oz.

Then we would bounce out to some ledges and use a 4×4 LedgeHammer with T-Mac and pick up some quality bass . Some of the schools had a lot of fish in them and some just had 5 maybe 10 in them.

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Fished the ABA and Thomas filled in for Steve finished 24th with 15.57 lbs.. Thought it was going to be on since the 1st bass was close to 5lbs then it was just smaller ones after that..

Had a day where both trips just wanted to catch fish and thats what we did.. we caught a bunch of fish mainly hybrids then we would move and try for a largemouth and picked a couple up doing that throughout the day.. it was fun.. The gu
ys from Las Vegas was very entertaining and Rodney n Heath talked trash and that was a good time…

Went out with a buddy and set up his graphs and showed him what different types of fish look like on his graphs and we did a little fishing too. As you can see he dropped the hammer on them..

Looking forward to July I have days open to fish with you.

Don’t forget to ask when you call about our Beat the heat in July Special.

Capt. Jim Leary

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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

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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

Capt. Jim

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May 24th 2017 Ledge Fishing

May 24, 2017 by Capt. Jim

The Big Bass On The Big G Have Made The Move To The Ledges.

It took them a little to leave the grass this year , it might of been the one of the longest shad spawns I’ve ever seen or it just never got hot enough to move them out or it could of been the high current that TVA was moving through the Tennessee River. But hey its happening now.

They are not everywhere and some you can’t even see but they are there and a little harder to find , and when you do its worth all the effort in finding them.

We’ve been catching them on 4×4 Bass Jigs Ledge Hammers with NetBait Super T-Mac… 4×4 Football Jigs with NetBait Paca Slims . and a little topwater has been happening over grass on ledges.

We have ledge fishing trips available and flipping will be happening soon so don’t miss out on that bite either. Call to book 256-698-6593

The pics are in order from recent to late .. enjoy them..

No Bass Is Pictured Twice.

Capt. Jim

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March 7th 2017… Oh how I Love March On Guntersville

March 7, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville is about to show the world just how awesome she is.. The Bass are slowly filtering up from the depths. We have a FULL MOON next week and I’m not saying some won’t go on bed but I think this will get them staging in a big way. Water temps have been keeping around 55 to 60 just depends how cold its getting at night.

Fished the FLW BFL this past weekend and got me a 5th place finish with 18-10lbs and I’ll take it, I lost two good fish early Saturday that made me think I really blew it and when I had 10 mins before check in and I had 4 fish I was really feeling the pressure of the two that I lost, I caught a 15 incher with 10 mins and threw back in there and a decent one ate it and pulled off and next cast another one ate it and it was a 3lb with 3 mins left and I had to cull, and when I was done it was time to run across the creek and check in,,, Talk about some excitement now I was pumped about getting 5 fish limit and figured I had 14 lbs . I was really shocked when the scales said I had 18-10 and I was in 3rd at that moment, but when the scales closed I was in 5th..

Fished the Ram Open on Sunday and didn’t fair to well finished 27th but the cool news is my co for the day won and had a 6.83 lb kicker to seal the deal.

Lipless baits have been the ticket for me and my guide trips, you have to give them what they are wanting and people they are wanting them to the point of hooking themselves deep in their mouths. Reds and Shiny ones have been our go to. 1/2 & 3/4 oz . Heres the part that you have to figure out daily and it is will they bite shallow or deep today..and once you figure that out you can have a pretty good day..

Depths 2-6 foot or 8-12 foot have been best.

One of our keys this past week has been keeping in the shallow areas and working them over and with the winds we’ve been having the only way to do it is with Power Poles they allow us to make the cast to the hot spot and when they stop biting we just lift them and move on till the next bite.

If your wondering whens a good time to come ….. You might want to make them resverations fast things are about to happen here. This isn’t a sales pitch..

Capt. Jim

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Feb 27th Lake Guntersville

February 27, 2017 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville The Big G GVILLE she has a lot of names and as she should. A fishery like her is one of a kind with Florida Strain Bass and Fronts this place will keep you on your toes.

This past week was anything but boring, from catching really big bass to catching their offspring we had the best week for 2017. You can tell its spring time and what I mean is on day you’ll catch big momma’s all day and the very next day in the same area you catch big momma’s teenagers and most of them are white or yellowish white, these bass are steadily moving in to spawning areas.. Yes in February we seen temps as high as 80 degrees and water temps as high as 64 so its the natural thing for these bass to start to prep for the spawn… Heck I seen pollen blowing out of trees on Friday. So Madness Of March is upon us.

The Bass have been liking a lipless crank baits and to the point of digging the hooks out of the crushers. We have been keeping the boat 8 feet or less and some days you have to burn the trap and some days you need to crawl it on the bottom and rip it out of the grass. Our colors have been Red on the cloudy days and Chrome on the sunny days and 1/2 oz has been the best weight and 16lb Sunline Sniper Line on a Duckett Micro Magic 7’3 Med Heavy. This has been one of the best Lipless Years I’ve seen on this lake.

WATER TEMP: 55-60

WATER CLARITY : its pretty clear you can see the fish while your fighting them in.

We fought the wind on Saturday and managed 3rd place with 3 fish and we did lose one that was pretty big and if she was like the two we weighed then we might of won with 4 fish.. But thats fishing just blessed to be able to do it for a living.

We have days open to take you fishing or if you have a large group or corp outing we can accommodate check out our Group Fishing Page.

Capt. Jim

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