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Fish Lake Guntersville
Guide Service
Post Spawn Fishing in Lake Guntersville
My Top Ten Ways to find and catch bass in Lake Guntersville Alabama
in the Post spawn time.
1. It appears over the past several years that the grass is starting
to get fairly thick in Guntersville when the fish are coming off the
bed because of that the first way to find fish in the post spawn
time frame is to find the grass. The fish will hold to the grass
edges and you can bet on a bite when the grass has some fair
thickness to it.
2. The next way is to stay in the 3 to 5 ft. range as the grass is
growing only in the shallow water at this time and you must stay
shallow to find fish.
3. Work yourself out to the main river points as the bass are moving
out of the back creeks, and holding near the river points, they want
to have access to the deeper water, should the sun get real bright.
4. Look for the minnows or shad, as they will follow the bait
especially as the water warms in the post spawn time frame. If you
don’t see grass and shad you are probably wasting your time.
5. Look for a change in depth of the grass on your electronics, if you
don’t find that the bottom is irregular the fish will not hold in
grass that is flat or evenly spaced. The bottom must produce ambush
points and irregular grass lines will hold the fish.
6.Stay away from the mossy type grass, a bass does not like this texture
of grass, and move when the bottom gets mossy; look for the tall
stringy type of hydrilla. You can’t miss it on your depth finder it
looks like stringy tops on your electronics. This holds the fish,
and allows them more ambush area to feed.
7. Once you have located the correct area of the lake slow your baits down
especially that 1st week or so that the bass come off the bed.
Senko’s and or Yum Dinger’s are your early best bet. The fish are
slow and tired from the spawn and do not want to work hard to feed.
A trick to help the senko work correctly in the wind is to use a
swivel and leave about a 12-inch leader, it adds a little weight and
does not change the presentation.
8. Work a worm, lizard or tube slowly in the grass edges, let this
bait lay on the bottom. The bass will pick it up off the bottom as
they again do not want to work hard to feed, shake the worm or
wiggle it to get some reaction from the lethargic bass during this
time of the post spawn.
9. As the post spawn moves into a 3rd week removed the bass start
looking for ditches or irregular grass lines, like horse-shoe areas
with 3 ft. of grass on 3 sides and 8 ft. of depth in the middle. Now
its time to slow roll that spinner bait off that hump or down that
ditch, look for the bait fish to follow the spinner bait because if
they are there you can bet the bass are.
10. If the spinner-bait bite doesn’t work then throw your lizard or
worm into this grass edge let it get to the bottom and stay there
for a few seconds then again shake it to cause some reaction. Work
it down the grass edge; don’t give up on this bait if you don’t get
an early bite. Use your boat to change the presentation, work from
the shallow edge and throw into the deep and work it up the grass, a
lot of times changing the presentation with boat position will
produce a bite.
If you follow these suggestions while fishing Guntersville I promise
you will find and catch the bass. Be persistent fish hard, hours on
the water will pay off. Come fish with me, we’ll have a great time.
Put them back alive guys and help me preserve our great resource
Lake Guntersville, Alabama.
Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service
256 759 2270
www.fishlakeguntersvilleguideservice.com
Email: bassguide@comcast.net
Mike
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