December and January consistently yield some of the best fishing of the year. However you like to fish can be productive. There are obviously big groups of fish out on the creek ledges following bait but there is also a shallow bite. The tournament weights in the winter are ridiculous. Anything less than 30 pounds has no chance to win and 20 poun...

The cooler weather has triggered an aggressive feeding pattern. I had 2 guide trips this week and we caught the biggest fish we have caught since last winter. If you like catching big ones December and January is by far the best time to catch them. Our best baits have been a jerkbait and a freeloader. The bait is congregated in current breaks nea...

Guntersville has a healthy population of big crappie and they are biting. Most of my clients are taking home 20-30 crappie per day. Bridges,brushpiles and bluffs are the deal right now. The fish are in 10-15 feet and feeding aggressively. We are tight lining Bobby garland type baits in monkey milk and blue ice colors on a 1/16th oz jighead with 4...

Finally the water temp is in the 60s and we have a true fall bite. This last week has been our best week for quality and quantity in months and will continue to Improve. Today we landed 50 with a best 5 of 19lbs. We have averaged 40 a day this week. You can catch them in 1 foot or 30 feet and anywhere in between. Best baits have been a freeloader...

Ribbit Ribbit!!! Down goes Kermit. The warm weather has reenergized the frog bite. The mats are shrinking and the fish are now concentrated. We have been catching fish with a variety of methods but nothing is more fun than frog fishing. As the sun warms the mats the shad start to gather around and big bass will follow. This week I had 4 guide tri...

Cooler nights have the big fish biting!!! Finally it's starting to cool off and the numbers and size of the fish we are catching have increased greatly. I have been guiding everyday and the average catch rate is 40 per day. The last two days my clients have landed a personal best. Frogging and flipping is by far the best way to catch big ones...

Down goes Kermit!!!! If you like turning off your graphs and getting up in the thick stuff hook up your boat and head to Guntersville. The frogging and flipping bite is the best I have seen it in decades. 30 bites a day all big ones. Grab some braid,a flipping stick and get in the nastiest stuff you can find. If your heart can't take an 8 pou...

Wow!!! The big fish showed up this week. One of my trips landed a best 5 over 24lbs. The rain,cooler nights and shorter days have the big fish feeding agressively at guntersville. We have been consistently landing over 30 fish a day and now the size is showing up as well. This fall is setting up to be one for the ages. If you find the bait you wi...

The humidity is dropping and the days are getting shorter. What does that mean? Bites and lots of them. This is when we catch the highest number of fish all year long. I had 3 groups of clients this week and we caught 35 to 50 bass on half day trips with our best 5 ranging from 16-19lbs per day. You can catch them in any depth at the moment...

The days are getting shorter and the fish are on the move. The pre fall shad migration has started relative to the length of day and thermocline depletion. The bass are locked on bait and they are following it from the river channel as they move towards the fall staging areas. We have been catching 30-40 per day with several nice fish each day. T...

20.1 won the 3 fish tournament Tuesday afternoon. Wired2fish writer Sam Hanggi ranks Guntersville 3rd in the country. This place keeps on producing in spite of the pressure and hot weather. This week we averaged 20 bass landed per day with several big ones showing up each trip. The famous ledges are producing but the grass bite is still there and...

I had 4 guide trips this week and the fishing was really good. We have been landing about 20 on half day trips with our best 5 anywhere from 18-21 lbs. The bigger fish have moved out on the ledges however they are extremely current oriented. There are still plenty of fish on the outside grasslines in 7-8 feet. Our best baits out deep are a spoon...

Guntersville is getting better and better as the water gets warmer. It's taking over 25 pounds to compete in the weekend tournaments and over 18 pounds to win the 3 fish afternoon tournaments. I did 3 guide trips this week and the fishing was spectacular. On 5 hour trips we are landing about 20 fish with several really big fish mixed in. &nbs...

Guntersville in May can be a lot of fun but it can also challenge your skill set. There are 3 completely different patterns emerging. Deep ledges are starting to fire when the current is rolling. Bream beds are a great way to get a lot of bites and the shad spawn can be the deal in the early morning hours. I did 3 guide trips this week and the nu...

Guntersville has really turned on in the last few days with the much needed rain and current. I guided 4 days this week and the catch rates improved daily. There is always a shallow bite in a grass lake and that is evident at the moment but now there is a deep bite as well. We averaged 20 fish landed on 5 hour trips this week and some days our be...

Water temps are in the 70s and everything in the lake is spawning. It's fun out there right now but it can also be challenging. I did 4 guide trips this week and we have caught them from 18 inches to 18 feet. We are catching about 25 a day and the average size is excellent for April. The easiest way to get bit is plastics up shallow but the b...

When the calendar flipped to April the fishing improved instantly. March was a bit of a struggle but with the warming water temperature consistently in the sixties the fish are getting acclimated and feeding. I did two trips Monday and we landed 37 total with 9 over 4 pounds. The shallow bite is the dominant pattern now with most of our fish comi...

With this unstable weather the fishing has been changing daily. Monday it was 28 degrees at daylight and the fishing was actually pretty good then it warmed up and the wind layed down later in the week and the fishing got tougher. On the windy days crankbaits and jerkbaits produced well but on the calm days we had to drag a jig on deep shellbeds...

There is a lot happening at guntersville right now. A big group of fish is on bed relative to the new moon and rising water temps. There are 3 large tournaments this weekend and the water level is fluctuating daily. I did 4 guide trips this week and we had to sample prespawn and spawning fish in different areas and depth zones to get bit consiste...

The bass are in transition at the moment at guntersville as a big group is preparing to spawn with the warming water and new moon approaching. The outside grass line fish have moved to the spawning areas and the creek channel fish have moved into the prespawn areas. There is also an abnormal amount of schooling fish at the moment which simply dis...