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I am planning a mini vacation in March.....What methods would you use to catch those hogs down there? I am also thinking of camping. Are there normal style camp grounds down there as there are up here? Is it safe....i'd hate to hear those banjo's a playin being in a tent. Anyone have any info they can offer up on Guntersville? end of lake, methods?, good ramp? Just looking for anything as I have NEVER been down there before.
Throw a rattle style bait to find them. Best advice I can give you is pick a big bay/creek and learn it. Run around it with your graph and note any high spots with deep water around them and find good green hydrilla or milfoil and there will be fish. It's not really a lake where you can beat the bank and catch fish. Also look for old dead lilly pad stems and that will indicate a hard bottom where those bass like to spawn. Try a large 6" senko in those areas.
Thanks Skeeter. I'll read a map and target areas that would look like they would produce. Flucuations in elevation...humps and what not. I do understand that the grass produces down there big time....but eliminating the grass that won't/doesn't is key.
One of the hottest baits there that time of year is a xcalibur xr50 or xr75 one knocker in red color (royal red or rayburn)!!!!
[QUOTE=mybentrod;396217]I am planning a mini vacation in March.....What methods would you use to catch those hogs down there? I am also thinking of camping. Are there normal style camp grounds down there as there are up here? Is it safe....i'd hate to hear those banjo's a playin being in a tent. Anyone have any info they can offer up on Guntersville? end of lake, methods?, good ramp? Just looking for anything as I have NEVER been down there before.[/QUOTE]
LOL! Banjo's huh? LOL:)
Copy on the xcaliber. Famaliar with any areas of the lakes to target? Not looking for GPS spots, just bays or areas. I will look for possible guides as well on a Sat or Sunday. ANy suggestions as to the good, bad, they're probably all ugly, but you know what I mean. I spent $500 on a salt water guide and didn't catch a darn thing last April. I wanted to haul in some sail fish......but blanked. Not all guides are created equal, I know, but I don't wanna do that again.
I love to throw the XR-50's at Guntersville. One problem I've had, and I wonder if anyone shares this problem, is that when the one-knocker version came out, I bought several of them and the eyes would come off usually within half an hour of throwing the things. Nothing like paying 6 or 7 dollars for a lure and then stuff starts falling off within a few casts!
Maybe it was just my bad luck. Been known to have some. :)
Don't know what part of the lake you plan on going to but I would pick a place like South Sauty or Seibold. Both are fairly large bays with a mixture of grass, bridge pilings, riprap and docks.
Dont mean to hi-jack your post bentrod maybe this question will help you to.
Do yall throw those xcalibers on braided line or flora?
thanks
[QUOTE=E-man;396255]Dont mean to hi-jack your post bentrod maybe this question will help you to.
Do yall throw those xcalibers on braided line or flora?
thanks[/QUOTE]
This is a not a hi-jack and is good info for anyone fishing Lake G. Use braid if you like it but whatever you do throw that lipless crank on a stiffer rod. You will be popping that R-Trap style bait out of the grass constantly. I visited last May for the first time. I used mostly my loomis CB847 crankbait rod and my Loomis MBR 843 with the exact lipless cranks in the exact colors noted earlier. This is serious grass and you need stout rod and ideally braid to pop that bait loose.
This lake I found to be very different the KYL but not Lake Okeechobee different. Move until you find fish. We lucked into one spot that saved our trip. Big bass in that lake but it feels very different then KYL.
Read the fishing reports on " the bass fishing home page " for Alabama . Just do a search an you'll find it . Before your trip start to read the reports an you can get an idea of what's going on ,even go back a year or the same months your going an read old reports .Also several guides regularly post there an if you need 1 you can get that imformation as well . I've finnaly learned that going a little later ,April , will caught me more fish , but the big 1'ns do bite in Feb. if you can find them .That's a heck of a lake forsure .Careful on the weather as the lake can be very dangeruos . Intimadateing .