I am often asked what it’s like being a fishing guide.  Every day starts the same. Your alarm goes off at 4am. You get up immediately resisting the temptation to hit the snooze button. That’s one of your rules. You head to the Cook Shack to pick up c...

Today brought sunshine and calm before the storm. The high was 87 while the low was 73 with light winds. Gusts up to 10mph. Currently it’s 77 feels like 85 with NE winds around 4mph. Tomorrow winds should still be light to gentle speeds before incre...

The release from Cannonsville is 631 cfs. We have a few days of cooler weather ahead of us which is a welcome relief. The hatches have still been mostly olives with some lingering Sulphurs. We’ve been catching a lot of fish blind casting Isonychias a...

Today was the day I’ve been hoping for and waiting to see again. A good and consistent Callibaetis hatch came off about 1 and lasted for about an hour and a half. We landed about 10 on a comparadun and one on a film critic when the hatch just got st...

Lake Guntersville Fishing Report This week brought a mix of puzzle pieces and payoffs on Lake Guntersville. We welcomed an angler from Japan — our 12th visitor from there — and the bite behaved differently than in recent weeks. One day the fish were...