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Guntersville Fishing Update 4.4.21

April 4, 2021 by Capt. Jim

March Was Pretty Good. We Caught Some Nice Ones & Won A Tournament. We had challenging weather last month but we seemed to put them in the boat even when the conditions didn’t fair the best.

It was nice seeing some big bass come in the boat, hope April holds up and gives us the same opportunity’s. The bass have been kinda spawning with the weather up and down and the water levels it has the bigger ones kinda on edge on making the move to lock down on beds. The water is clearing up from the recent rains and high winds, so look for some catching to start happening.

GUNTERSVILLE BASS GUIDES — ABA OPEN 1ST PLACE

The week of the ABA win clients had rescheduled due to the bad weather and come Friday I was pretty stir crazy so I entered the ABA and just went fishing and it worked out, with the New Lowrance Active Target it made it a little easier to catch em and at the same time frustrating only because I could see them swimming away from the lures as well.

Had a good tournament on Pickwick in the BFL Mississippi Division took 2nd with 19-15lbs had 3 smallmouth and 2 largemouth in my bag, it was defiantly a fun tournament and the smallmouth was a complete surprised, 2 days before they was largemouth. I was able to cull up twice at the end of the day with a couple of largemouths.

Eric and I took 4th in the Freedom Marine Tournament with 20.90lbs

I fished the Sylvania Fishing Team Open Solo and took 2nd with 20.90lbs (not a typo same weight 2 weeks in a row)

We are a guide down for a few more weeks Capt. Shane has a broken leg he is getting along after his surgery and hopes to be back on the water in a month so in the meantime our openings are slim so dates are filling faster then it would be if we was full staffed.

Water Temp 57-62

clarity 1 ft – 2 ft

Heres Some Pics.

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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

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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.