With the extreme heat during the mid-part of the day being on the water passed 11 am for me was tough on the body. Catching fish early however was pretty good, size was down but bites were good for the conditions, you just had to be persistent and cover water.
Summer Continues To Cook Us Here On Guntersville & The Bass Keep Biting! Sure the heat has been pretty intense at times, but all it has done is help the grass grow and the bass have made the move to it and are getting set up in it.
Water Temps 77-85 Dingy to Clear
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A big change from the beginning of the week to the end of the week, the lake started out after a few days of cool nights on-fire the bass were feeding and catching was fun. As we ended the week the heat set back in and the bites slowed to a crawl and the bass got back to suspending
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And There Goes The Summer Of 2019! How Was It In Your Eyes? The Lake is full of fish. We have a bright future for sure, you can catch fish at will pretty much every outing ... but are you catching the quality that Guntersville is KNOWN for ? Are the big uns still around? I say
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As is generally the case in late August you can see the heat start to affect the position of the fish on your Lowrance Electronics, the thermocline begins to hold the oxygen and the fish move to those deeper areas of the lake and suspend. This generally means we need some current
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Guntersville Bass Don't Seem To Mind The Heat! But man has it been hot, I'd say we are in the dawg days of summer but the fishing begs to differ! Some days are alike and some are so far from what we have done on other days, keeping an open mind seems to be the key and when the
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As we move into August it appears that the fishing on Guntersville has remained strong, there some dead time but for the dogdays of August we are catching good numbers and decent size. The day is limited especially if you don’t like being out in the heat bur for the first 4
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Well Here We Are Its August Its Hot And Its Guntersville. If your not catching them then your in the wrong area or your technique may not be what they are wanting. The water temp has gotten back up in the high 80s and the bass well they know its the dog days and are wanting
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With some cool nights and some strong water current on Guntersville this past week the bite picked back up to where it was a couple weeks ago; we caught numbers and some of the best size in numbers we have had in a month. The exciting tale was we had over 15 four plus pound
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The Big Girls Are Still Chewing! Guntersville always seems to keep one on their toes and this last week was no exception.
Things are changing the bass are changing up their diet plan and are preferring something different then the last couple of months which is fine (
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It was and up and down week for us this past week; there were times we caught fish and had lots of opportunities then there were the slow times. The key was the current many days the current was not easy to detect and others it was swift and caused the fish to be active. There
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Water temperatures in the 88-degree range did not dampen the bite; surprising for sure as I expected it to be quite different. The fish were active, and the big fish were also feeding, we had several 5 to 7 lb. fish this week with the biggest being 7 lbs. 5 oz. plus lots of
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Guntersville Has Produced Some Big Bass This Past Week! We started to see them getting grouped up , catching several off one area. But it is still a day to day deal it seems pretty much impossible to rely on one spot to produce day after day these fish are so beat up from all
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The heat, bright sun and traffic on the water for the week of the 4th certainly changed the lake for me, most of the week we chased schooling fish to catch numbers the bad news was they were small, the good news; we caught lots of fish; with one exception which we had a great
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We have finally seen some change in the lake the oxygen levels seem to be getting depleted and the change is affecting the bite; couple that with bright sunshine the last few days and it’s adding up to a summertime bite. Early in the day we have been chasing the top water bite,
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The Heat Is On Its Way & I believe the big ones are setting up in some strange off the wall areas. Could it be the flood earlier this year or all the fishing pressure, who really knows and I do know that they are moving and not staying put and that makes it tough to stay
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As always, the hot summer can be very discouraging; not only is it hot but it seems the grass nats can drive you crazy and there are big gapes of time between bites! When it is hot, and the sun is bearing down on you the only thing that takes your mind off the conditions is... read more
Sometimes you can just have too many places to fish, too many way points and too many miles of water to travel to get there; don’t try to fish everyone. If you’re not finding fish when that happens you should think about what you have been doing, what type of structure, depth... read more
At the age of 5 through 7 this was my power house! It was 31/2 horsepower outboard Evinrude motor. It had a two-blade propeller that thrust it forward at least 5 to 8 knots. My boat was a 12 foot wooden row boat. Yes, it leaked like a sieve! However, even as a young child,... read more
If there one thing you can count on in fall fishing on a regular basis is clear water, the reason being is generally we do not see a lot of rain; TVA does not pull much current and the water oxygen level is concentrated in different areas of the lake. As the thickness of the... read more
Landing big bass at Lake Millwood is hard enough in the daytime, but imagine fighting a monster like this at night. For Mike Siefert of Lake Millwood Guide Service, fighting big bass at night is one of the most exciting things about summer.
Summer in Arkansas. ... read more
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