Guntersville 7/13 = Suckfest

[Davo]

Went to Gville this morning after getting almost no sleep. I've only fished there 3 times and every time has sucked bad. You guys weren't kidding about the grass, geez, there are miles of it and all with no fish. I threw just about everything in my boat. I did have a pig blow up on a frog but missed and wouldn't come back. I have an idea of where the fish may be but man, there is just so much grass. I'm used to fishing a lot of humps and points but you can hardly even get close to a point because of the grass. Well, at least I got to burn about $30 worth of gas, yehaw.

 

[Bprice]

Davo and others... I will give you and others this tip. In the back of creeks are some nice areas that don't have grass, and that nice limits can be caught out of. Areas that have navigable, narrow creeks are your best bet. If I can't catch my grass fish, then I'm pushing into the back of one of them, and fishing traditional grassless, points, stump fields, and submerged rock and timber.

 

[flip1up]

Davo, could you feel any current?

 

[Davo]

Thanks Brandon, I found some nice spots where some creeks come together but they are pretty far away. I'll have to give some of the creeks a try. I didn't realize how far you have to go to get around the grass in some places. I saw one guy go by me doing about 70 mph, then about 10 minutes later he was hauling back by me on the other side of the grass line in the channel. He must have gone 5 miles down river.

 

[Davo]

No current flip, but there was a nice breeze early and then that died. After I sweated 13 gallons my will started to wane and I came home.

 

[RangerRob]

Dang partner ... you were supposed to have found us some fish!

 

[flip1up]

I dont mind giving one either, there is a crankbait bite, on the ledges, but you have to find the productive areas. A friend of mine has been catching some good fish down lake on a DD22. I caught a couple keepers last week on a Flat A in about 7-10 feet of water.

 

[Bprice]

There are cuts through the grass on the south side near south sauty, where you can access the back channel... but man, none in the North Sauty/Mink Area.

 

[flip1up]

Without current, that lake can be tough on us folks that are not running the fish all the time.

 

[flip1up]

On the south side you can run for several miles in the secondary channels. You can run from Goose Pond about 4 miles on the North side going down, til you come to the point that is all the way out to the channel, before Pine Island, and also from Roseberry to Criders slough going up river on the north side.

 

[Bprice]

Yes coming out of the "shoot" at North Sauty, after bout the 3rd bouy from the channel you can run the length all the way to Mink Creek safely.

 

[flip1up]

Friday morning tva will be pulling through Gville dam 1 generator from 6-7 a.m. Starting at 7 a.m. they will have 2 or more running, but Nick. dam will not be generating yet, so the water level will be dropping a little, but there will be some current. Starting at 10a.m. Nick. dam will be pulling 2 or more, it will take an hour or two for the water to get around the areas that most of us are fishing. I would think that high noon will be a good time to be on the ledges or humps. I'm just guessing that being in the backs of creeks in the morning while the water is dropping might be unproductive, but later in the day, with rising water may be good. Now, I have had 2 Tom Collins and starting to feel them and may be all wet, but this is what I'll be thinking tomorrow morning when I get on the water.

 

[jsb]

There is one thing I have found out about Gunters ville over the last few years of fishing it. You cna start fishing the edge of the grass and maybe fish it for a mile or more with no bites. Than all of a sudden you will hit an area and catch several fish. Go on 50 -100 yards and the bite will stop. Go back to that area and catch more fish. I have never seen a lake that is that bad about doing that.emoToast KEEP THEM ALIVE AND RELEASE THEM