Guntersville

[OutdoorWilly]

Anyone been on guntersville lately? How's it been?

[LarryDavid]

G-ville been very, very good to me.

In fact I don't think I'm even going to have to go to a bridge and witness a homicide this year. Yippie!

Although I do enjoy drowning the minnows, but do love tossing jigs on ultralight more. That and the piece and quiet. The place I'm going nearly everybody could care less about crappie.

I did cut those boards perfectly years ago to keep me in place at the bridge. Oh well, at least I don't have to get up at 2 a.m. to make sure I get a spot for when they start biting at dawn this year.

On a side note, does anyone know if that new dock has opened at South Sauty? And is the old one still usable as well at the campground?

On another side note. I used milk jugs, the gallon ones, with frozen water to keep them frisky Friday. I brought a couple dozen crappie home. They were all blacks, only a couple with the slightest hint of eggs. Just make sure you peel the labels off the milk jugs so they don't clog your livewell. The surface water temp went from 69 to 73 in the 5 hours I fished. Morning fog helped keep the bite on until 11 a.m. pretty strong. Sure it's going to be cooler this week, but if you don't use at least one gallon milk jug, they're gonna die. Hopefully some of the bass fishermen will head this warning for their tournament hauls in these little club tourneys that are really taking a toll on the bigmouths and stinking up the launches.

So there you have it. I've said too much - again.

[crappieseeker]

Larry we said we were gonna get together last year and go one day and never got the chance. We need to get together and go. I swear i am going to have to get me a boat. I am getting sick of fighting the crowds. I get there at 2 or 3 in the morning only to get covered up in no time. I am not a shooter I am a caster and people will get so close to me that I can almost no longer cast. It also limits me to casting directly in front of me, you know as well as I do the fish shift several feet back and forth at times. I had 6 people swallow me whole yesterday. I even try to lay some of my equipment a few feet around me but it does not help, they will get on top of it. I just think people should have more respect, if they want to fish the area they should get there first. I do not want the whole bridge, just a reasonable amount of space. That should not be too much to ask. I never move in that close to anyone, I either go back home or try somewhere else. With all that being said me and a friend had 53 the other morning but not the morning I got covered up.

[droptine]

Guntersville has been good all summer. Pulling cranks, spiderrig, and vertical jigging. Main river ledges and creek channels around cover with baitfish. Current being the main ticket.

[crappieseeker]

when you say main river ledges do you mean down the sides of the river where the water drops from a few feet to like 14 to 20 feet or so? Do you lose a lot of cranks trolling Gunersville?

[mighty]

Went out yesturday morning fished 69. Caught 18 before wind picked up. They where hitting about 10ft.

Hey seek where you at 69 yesturday. I didnt get there until 6:45 and it was crowded. Fortunately everyone was on the pump house side so I had the front side to myself. Plan on getting out there wed or thur morning.

Fish where hitting monkey milk on 1/16 plain jig.

[TNriveriscrappie]

Fished the first few miles of guntersville from october 4th-7th. Didnt have much action on the main river, but I fished it before the front came through. The majority of fish came from creeks and sloughs on the dropoffs. Water depth was 8-20ft and fish were suspended 4-15ft. Used a variety of Bobby Garland colors with a 1/16th jig head. They would not touch a minnow yet! Averaged about 15 per day and I noticed they preferred a slightly slower presentation, especially after the cold from came through friday night/ saturday. If anyone has located some schooling stripe where a jigging spoon is needed some pointers would be appreciated!

[jimmie]

nice report guys

[crappieseeker]

mighty I have never fished 69. Have you tried using 1/24 and blue ice. I have been catching more on that color than monkey milk.

[droptine]

when you say main river ledges do you mean down the sides of the river where the water drops from a few feet to like 14 to 20 feet or so? Do you lose a lot of cranks trolling Gunersville?

Crappieseeker, you hit the nail on the head about the ledges and luckily, knock on wood I haven't lost a crank this year.