Lake Guntersville Report

Fishing the last few trips have been alot slower than in the past few weeks making me make some changes. We were catching fish in water from 1-5 feet in the morning deep in pockets then moving to faster drops as the sun got up. Well either alot of people read the blog of found the same fish I have.LOL Most every stop I have hit the last few trips have had atleast 5 boats on them anytime I wanted to fish them. After finding new areas with solid numbers in them with-in a day or so they were getting pounded as well. Finding green grass on Guntersville is like finding hidden treasure in Russia. When you do find it there will be fish in it and if it's deeper grass they will be big! Just don't hit it long or you will have boats all over you in no time flat.
The AM bite this week has been grim at best over shallow grass with the normal baits, like the buzzbait, SK Grande', and swim frogs. The better fish are still shallow in the morning and we have boated the best numbers on the Jackall Dagored, Mikey Jr., and Sride. After the sun gets up on the area your fishing just move to the first drop and toos a swimbait or flip a plastic. This has allowed us to work an area about two more hours before making a run to deeper water.
I have fished alot of the lower end of the lake the last few trips(at clients request) and the humps are working well along with creek channels. The muscle beds are producing great fish in the 15-25 foot range with the Swimming Ninja and Muscle 15+ doing the best. When hitting the lower end be sure to look at your maps and find areas with creek channels near flats. Alot of times the drops will have muscle beds on them and this is where the better fish are feeding.
On the mid-lake areas the bite is great but fishing presure wins over on alot of areas that are easy to find. Look for areas that have deeper grass coming up in water around 12-20 feet deep. Alot of anglers are over looking these and the fish are there. While the daytime bite is a bite slower working an area hard will produce some solid bags. Baits like the Swimming Ninja, Muscle 15+(in shad colors), Lake Fork Big worms rigged on 3/8 or 1/2oz Tungsten weights texas style and Omega 3/4oz football jigs in green pumpkin and black and blue.
The last few days have had alot of high weather presure systems sitting on top of the lake making the bite slower and alot of anglers thinking the bite was dead. Well in some areas fish tend not to feed during high presure but for me that just means you have to work harder. When fronts like these move in I hit the same areas working them with reaction type baits. Now anyone that has ever fished with me knows what that means, cranking grass! I like to use a Jackall MC60MR or Muscle 10+ fishing it extreamly slow in shallow grass. I know from research that when fronts like these hit fish "nose up" on docks and grass and go into a shut down mode. The best way to fish these baits is to keep in infront of the fish as long as you can to force them to eat it. This takes alot of practice and alot of trips I have seen clients get alot of confidence after I talk them through working the bait correctly in the grass. Once they get the feel they are amazed on how easy it is to do and how productive it can be on harder days.
I will be working on some new stuff for the blog in the coming week and getting ready for some other events. If anyone has anything they would like to read about or knows of anything that would help other anglers I will be happy to post it just send me an e-mail and we will get working on it. On other updates, I got a call from Bryant on his Dad and he is doing alot better. His store is also doing well and being the ONLY Jackall dealer in Guntersville getting alot of attention. Be sure to drop by Lake's Edge Tackle located on Highway 69 across from Guntersville Boat Mart service center and check it out. He is also wroking a tournament on Sunday's from the Store. They are launching from Browns creek and fishing from safe light until 12:00 or 1:00. It is a great event and drawing more anglers each weekend. Be sure to contact him to sign up and get a low boat number.