
CURRENT CONDITIONS
5-13-2008 This report is for Friday, Saturday,
Monday and today. Last Friday I had the pleasure of fishing
with return clients from Chattanooga, Tennessee. We started
the day with Booyah spinnerbaits slow rolled through the
grass with some early success but we switched over to the
Yum lizard and dinger as the day went on. We targeted grass
in 3-6ft of water landing 16 fish and the guys broke off
three good ones. Saturday I took a good friend of mine and
his 10 year old son out bluegill fishing. We launched out
of Goosepond at 11:30am and we were back on the trailer by
3:30pm. Four solid hours we caught bluegill and shell crackers
on just about every cast from the time we got there until
we left. We landed over 120 but only brought home 40 fish.
Who wants to clean 120 bluegills anyway? Monday I fished
with two guys from Cullman, AL that had the same first name.
It really made it easy for me to remember their names and
I never got them confused….HaHa! Brian and Brian started
the day off with the spinnerbaits and had pretty decent luck,
but after a few hours the shad stop following the blade and
we had to switch over to Yum lizards and Heddon spooks. Total
for the Monday was 21 fish. Today (Tuesday) was defiantly “SPINNERBAIT
ANNIHILATION DAY” for my client and I. Paul and I began
the day with Booyah 3/4oz spinnerbaits and we didn’t
have to put the blade down until 10:00am. For the day we
landed 52 fish and no telling how many strikes we missed.
I haven’t seen shad follow a blade this good in four
years on Guntersville, today was just a remarkable day.
 5-6-2008 I
wonder if the weather will ever get stable. It seems like
we go a couple of days with little to no wind then all heck
breaks loose. I’m pretty sure come June and July we will be begging for the wind, so I guess I should enjoy it now. Friday I fished with a gentleman practicing for upcoming tournament so we moved around a lot and didn’t fish anything hard. We managed to catch 13 fish with little effort on Booyah spinnerbaits, and Yum lizards. Monday I fished with Joe and Walt from Atlanta, GA and they had a blast catching 22 fish on the lizards, spinnerbaits and the Xcalibur Xr50’s.
Today my client was return client from one of my crappie
trips this past winter. We wanted know if catching bass is
easy as catching crappie. Well, I think he knows crappie
are typically easier to catch, however we did landed 27 bass
today all on the Booyah spinnerbaits and Yum Lizards. The
best areas the last few days have been 2-5ft of water with
nice green grass close to spawning areas.
5-2-2008 My client and
I launched out of Waterfront at 8:00am which is really late
for me. There was hardly any wind in the morning and I knew
we had missed the spinnerbait bite if there was any, so we
started off with theYum Lizard. It didn’t take but just a few casts before we landed our first fish. We continued fi5-2-2008shing lizard in the 1-6ft range then like a switch, “ON” came the big enormous fan and it was set on ultra high. The winds below and they never stopped blowing for the rest of the day. I think it’s going to keep blowing tonight as well. Fortunately the fish didn’t care one way or another as my client and I continued to catch a few fish. Total for the day was 28 fish
4-30-2008 40 degree morning temps again put the squash on our Booyah spinnerbait bite for the second day in a row. Clients today could only manage to get a handful of bites on the blade, but they really made up for it with the Yum lizards and Xcalibur Xr50 rattlebaits. No doubt Greg and Chris from Cooksville, TN absolutely hammered them today as the total was 41 fish and they had some nice quality fish in the mix. We fished ridges, flats, and humps in the 1-6ft range with grass. Strong winds are forecasted for Thursday and will most likely hurt the lizard bite since it will be very difficult to feel the bite, but the spinnerbait bite may improve. We will see………
4-4-08 The week ended strong just like it began in the numbers
category on Lake Guntersville. Clients Wednesday and Thursday
landed 25+ fish per day fishing shallow in 1-3ft with a variety
of baits. Baits used were Yum 5 inch dingers (watermelon
red & watermelon gold), Yum Zellamander (watermelon red),
Yum Wooly Hawgtail (watermelon red) and Bomber Balsa Model
B (pearl blue orange belly). We caught fish ranging from
6 inches up to 6 pounds and the action was pretty steady.
Friday my trip cancelled due to the weather forecasted, which
allowed me to fish with two good friends again. Both are
very good fisherman and well known on Lake Guntersville and
you may recognize them. We fished the same baits and patterns
to land over 30 fish in short amount of time while we dodged
all the storms.
4-1-08 The week has started out very strong for the numbers
category with clients landing 2 5 fish on Monday. We targeted
grass and stumps in 1-4ft of water with Bomber Balsa Model
B’s and Yum Dingers. If I remember correctly we never
threw an Xcalibur rattlebait the entire trip. I guess there
was really no need to. Tuesday the numbers continued, actually
they were a little better because a couple of good friends
and I fished for 6 hours and landed 25-30 fish. Most of the
fish are nice 2-3 pound chunks. Over the next couple of weeks
the fish will continue to move in and out of the pockets
and it will make for some great fishing.
GENERAL
YEARLY CONDITIONS:
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