Hard Fishing and Great Company on Guntersville

Well, the title sums it up fairly well. What seemed to start out as a great last min. trip on Guntersville with an awesome guy, Kyron Jones ended up with the fish not being very commited to the program. Kyron has helped me in the past at some appearances at Bass Pro Shops while doing tank demo's and we made the choice last night to get him out on the water in search or a big Guntersville Bass. Well, we started off launching at Waterfront and after looking at some cloud cover made the choice to run north from the ramp. Upon reaching our first stop and seeing the water to be about 3 degrees colded and 4 shades darker than the last time I was in the creek a few days ago I knew I was in trouble. I had explained to him I really needed the sun to pick up the better bite was sure we would have some fish reguardless.
We started off tossing Jackall TN70 Lipless cranks in the shallow grass lines. While fishing I was telling him how the bite had been very suttle and make sure to know exactly what his bait was doing at all times. It wasnt long before a fish smacked his bait pulled the rod and then came unhooked. He then knew what I meant about the bite being light. I ended up picking up a rod and using several different colors and sizes to see if it would help make the fish commit better to the bait. I then had a fish slap at the bait and ended up foul hooking it in the back. After getting the fish to the boat and letting him go back to his winter retreat Kyron missed another solid fish that was right at the boat and pulling drag. He was doing everything right and working the fish then it was just like the fish disappeared and the line went slack.
I made the dession to make a move further up river to an area I had boated a few fish in past trips. After working the area kinda fast I crossed the creek channel to another area and hooked up again on a solid keeper fish but still not what I was looking for. After a few more mins. Kyron had one fish knock slack in the line but when he set the hook nothing was there. We then were running out of daylight during the short 4 hour trip and moved again. The 4th area we fish produced one nasty backlash, some new line and no fish. We moved back to the area we had started and showed the most promise. Ended up with a couple of more fish several misses and some great leasons on the Lowrance set up/reading the graph and GPS. I even missed a fish on a Jackall Flick Shake, which those of you that have fished with me know that is a very rare thing to happen.LOL
All in all a good trip where lots of great fellowship and instruction prevailed over the fishing. Somedays are always better than others and there are somedays you just can't make them eat the bait good enough to get them in the boat. Water temps were 46-49 degrees with a light wind and very stained water. The current was moving so fast on the main lake it almost seemed like someone forgot to put the plug back in the Dam but water levels are still high. Hope everyone has a great week and stay safe.

God Bless
Phil'4:13