With most days this past week hitting 100 degrees the bite was surprisingly good; hard to imagine but we averaged good numbers and some fair size everyday on the water. The bite certainly got tougher as the sun got higher every day, but I was very pleased with the successful
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With a few cool nights the bass became real active for me and produced several good fish over the period of just a few days of fishing. It’s just amazing how a little bit of the right kind of weather can change the fishing. We caught good numbers, fishing got better as the week
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Its Been A Great Two Weeks Here On Lake Guntersville. September has been known as one of the toughest months in the southeast to catch a fish, I can remember when I would avoid the lake during September until 4 years ago I made it my mission to figure them out, them long hot
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With my truck being repaired from someone hitting it at a ramp and of course the culprit not owning up to it; my report will be somewhat second hand; but have no fear I have it back and will be back on the water next week. It appears the top water bite remained strong and so
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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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Over the many years I have been fishing for a living baits seem to come and go like your favorite meals do. One year the bite is strong on a certain bait the next you can’t get a fish to hit it. The traditional jig at least for me has been going through this now for several... read more
As we progress into the fall, we will see plenty of water temperature change some of it will be positive for the fall bite and some will not. Determining the effect on your bite will have a lot to do with what the temperature is, how much it drops and how quickly the temperature... read more
The craze of the A-Rig has spread to all parts of the country with pros making videos of big fish being caught on the A-rig all over the country. Major League fishing keeping it on the approved lure list and smaller circuits using it as a big-time fish catcher. If you watch... read more
I published this story on January 22, 2006 after the passing of my long time friend Kitty Strozier. Kitty was a long time resident of Tybee Island, Georgia. She had a wonderful soul! Believe me time flies much too... read more
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