Guntersville Lake
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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Lipless Crankbaits
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
65°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Football Jigs
Structure
Rip Rap
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
65°
Throwing a football jig unconventionally is never talked about enough. Everyone thinks it has to be the same boring not fun dragging cadence that is as much fun as watching YouTube ads. I love this technique call it "Hula-ing it" Yes I named it after myself lol. I take a long rod with parabolic bend all Daiwa rods do a fantastic job with this but any beef stick with parabolic bend will work. You simply bomb your jig out and wait till you feel bottom. You then swim it in but you switch your rod tip left and right which makes the jig snap back and forth causing a somewhat circular motion when it swings side to side. This good size spot fell for it in 20 foot of water. I like a chunk because it does a great job looking like a big craw moving all around ! Rubber is key as it looks the most life like any rubber jig works just needs to be hand tied as rubber Is not very durable !
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Swim Jigs
Structure
Lily Pads
Forage
Bluegill
Water temp low 60s, air temp in the 50s. Fished the northern end of guntersville, focused on north sauty and slow rolled a swim jig around dead pad stems produced a good number of bites but not great quality. Used a queen tackle swim jig with a fat Albert when I wanted to keep it down in the water column and a menace when I wanted to keep it further up, later in the day a menace grub was working better on the back of the jig.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Neko Rigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Water Temperature
66°
Fishing is better in the afternoon. Water warms and they come up shallow and feed. Points are best as most are post spawn now. 2 to 6 foot grass. Slow Slow Slow
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
65°
Fishing grass flats on south end near or on the main river. Target weed lines with the Senko you see on side scan or mega 360. Make sure to have unpegged weight!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Lipless Crankbaits
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
65°
Fishing grass flats in the main river near the south end of the lake. Caught many good sized post spawn bass on traps being burned over the tops on the eelgrass. Also fishing the weed lines with the yum dinger rigged Texas with a unpegged 1/4oz weight.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Drop Shot
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
64°
Unreal day fishing overcast on rock bridges was awesome using live scope to cover parts of the bridge which showed what parts had the gills and the shad as well as the yellow tail "skipjack" I would simply throwing Into the current along the bridge and let the bait swim into the bait ball as soon as the drop shot just merely left the "bait ball" fish would fire and eat 8ichers all the way up to this buet 5lber !
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Spoons
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Blueback Herring
Water Temperature
65°
Great time finally having success down south with a spoon it is a great bait to throw up north by me this time of the year but south is a killer time. I was fishing the main points of bridges find the bait balls or schooling fish on my livescope then I simply cast it 25 feet past the schools of fish. Then wind it in pause wind it in pause open the spool let it shoot back. It was fun because scope allowed me to not get hung up and watch the fish eat it. Simple approach I use 20 lb line fluro to a barrell swivel everyone has their own size they like I just use a size 1. I will then tie a 1.5 leader with a feathered treble then tie the spoon on as you could see in the picture. I use the plastic off the trailer hooks then thread it on the line so it can't pass the swivel. This allows the bait to look as if it is chasing smaller bait and will get schooling fish fired up ! When a fish bites crack them because spoon fish are tough to land due to the leverage you get on the hook binding the split ring !
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Crankbaits 13'+
Structure
Ledges
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
65°
Got to finally get them good on a 10xd upnorth great to use this time but also this is one of the places 10xds really shine. Simple prices I use my helix 12 to find the ledges as I am driving down the lake 20-10 drop offs are the ledges you want to fish. on A humminbird that is dark blue to a lighter blue next to each other main lake. You throw this further than the bait ball or school of fish and then you slowly wind and let the bait stay above the fish as it looks more realistic. I keep it simple 12 lb mono its got a little bit of give yet with the big swing you make with a crank bait series rod it all evens out, also the line is much more stronger than fluro as it can handle the tension better. use a 200 size reel or 150 to allow you for maximizing cast-ability. Hooks are very strong and durable you will not need to change these puppies !
