Guntersville 8/28/06 Bprice and Burger

[Bprice]

Got home from Kingston around 1:00 and loaded up and headed over to Burger's place, and then onto Waterfront. A front was coming in and it was extremely windy. We decided to begin fishing back channel humps in midlake near waterfront. I quickly boated a fat 3-3.25 lb Largemouth swimming a 10 inch Watermelon YUM worm. I figured we were in for something good, as we worked our way around the hump. That was the only fish we could locate. We headed into a back channel cove to escape the wind and fished many grassy points and inlets with no success. A variety of methods were used, flipping jigs, swimming worms, walking spooks on the outside of the grass, and throwing toads over the grass. No avail.

Headed into Mink for some of my sure fire spots, and again came up empty on a great hump, and boat houses. It was a tough day, and instead of sticking it out for the last few hours of daylight, we decided to cut it short and beat the storm.

It was our first time back on Guntersville since CFF 8, and the water was WAAAAY up. I think this could of had an adverse effect on the fish, the incoming front would of seemed to get them going, but we didn't see that happening.

Burger got to drive the Vindicator, and he smiled from ear to ear.

Ready for rat time,
BP

 

[Burger]

B.price, offered to let me drive the vindicator and I refused the first couple of times. After he deemed me a whimp I had to take the wheel. I got it up to around 60mph or so. My little stratos tops out at 32mph so that was a blast! If anyone finds a faded chicago cubs hat floating return it back to him please!

 

[jon the fisherman]

Burger, now you will want a faster boat, BP has got you gut hooked nowemoLaugh

 

[TritonCarl]

If my Triton didn't make Burger want a faster boat, surely the vindicator didn't either!!!!!!emoPoke
But Burger also didn't like me following the trial line on my GPS, thought I wasn't paying attention, and couldn't understand why i didn't want to run wide open through the grass mats of G'ville.

Let the Triton vs Stratos debate begin.

Carl

 

[Skeeter]

Dadgum Carl you just opened a big can of worms. Every day i go through this with my dad and brother both Triton owners about how Stratos/Javelin are hands down getter than any old stinkin Triton. emoPoke

 

[Bprice]

No worries skeeter, the way Carl drives his Triton, you'd think an old grannie was behind the wheel!!!

 

[Skeeter]

Bprice - 8/28/2006 8:30 PM

No worries skeeter, the way Carl drives his Triton, you'd think an old grannie was behind the wheel!!!

I thought "Grannie Boat" was there slogan emoScratch

 

[TritonCarl]

Skeeter175 - 8/28/2006 7:33 PM

Bprice - 8/28/2006 8:30 PM

No worries skeeter, the way Carl drives his Triton, you'd think an old grannie was behind the wheel!!!

I thought "Grannie Boat" was there slogan emoScratch

Grannie Boat....wouldn't that be a Ranger since there so heavy(I mean heck, might as well get all boat brands involved!!!!!!)

Skeeter, by the looks of things, you're triple dipping with a Javelin, a ranger and a skeeter screen nameemoPoke

And to quote Burger on my 'toon driving, "I'm anal about it." Heck I've waited 24 years for this boat, get over it!!!

You'll have to admit, Bprice, good feeling getting the 'toon on plane before dark coming out of mink creek wasn't itemoToast

Carl

 

[Skeeter]

Gosh carl, Waiting 24 years for a Triton!!! Settin your standards kinda low aint you? emoPoke


As for the tripple dibblin yes i do own a Ranger and a Javelin. Now if you want to talk about a caddy the ranger is it. But i wont get started on the Javelin. The complex interworking of that superior boat might send this thread into a parrallel universe.


As far as Skeeter that has been my nickname since highschool so ther is bo boat relation there.

 

[TritonCarl]

Skeeter175 - 8/28/2006 8:18 PM

Gosh carl, Waiting 24 years for a Triton!!! Settin your standards kinda low aint you? emoPoke

Seeing as I'm only 24 years old, I thought I set my standards pretty HIGH!!!!!!!

The older Stratos/Javelins were good boats, I haven't been too impressed with the new ones though. I wasn't trying to start a boat brand war, its about as bad as the old Chevy/Ford debate, just ribbin' Bprice a little!! Carl

 

[Bprice]

I hear ya man! When you get back from the Land of the Rising Sun, you need to head on down Bama ways and lets go find some schooling fish.

 

[Skeeter]

Yeah i think Tritons are top notch boats, but my dad and brother have got me so gun shy anytime i hear something said about Triton its instint to jump in head first. Plus there aint nothing like a little ribbing. Although i have seen several really funny threads turn into a all out battle over somones sarcastic comment. emoRolleyes Guess some people cant have no good humor no more?


My dad had a tournament out of Mud Creek last Sat. He ran to Rose Berry and when he got there his trolling motor wouldnt work. I was at Rose Berry so he called me to bring over some tools. We took the trolling motor completely apart on the water and found a burnt circuit board in the foot of it. Of course his reply was that he forgot to wrap the trolling motor foot with a heat shield to protect from the high temp friction from the air on the ride down river. emoLaugh

Thats the kinda stuff i get to hear EVERY DAY. emoToast

 

[polo-dog]

Bprice, that is two reports from G'ville in a row with less than stellar fish. Do you think that you guys fished too shallow? Was there any flow? Is there anything that you can think of that you would do differently to get more fish in the well?

 

[TennesseeTalker]

Atta boy Polo .. get 'em back on track!



TT

 

[Bprice]

I'm not sure that being shallow was the problem, we were covering water from 8 ft down to 20 ft at the bottom of the hump. It might only get a few feet deeper than that anywhere in mid-lake. G'ville and Wheeler have been stingy with the water lately, and i don't know why, with the hurricane coming.

In hind sight, I might of gotten out of the back channel, and tried areas on the main channel. The problem there is, and you saw in previous posts a month ago, where do you start, when you have a grassline that runs 40 miles... and topo maps don't give you much more help. I know the creek mouths would of been a good spot to start, but there are also always 5 boats on each mouth...

 

[MooseKnuckle]

We fished the G Saturday with about the same results as Bprice. We fished mainly between waterfront and Goosepond. Humps, inside line, channel side line. and only managed 2 fish all day, 1 keeper. 15.75 pounds won our touney and it took 14 to get in the money. Found out today 4 of the top 5 places threw a frog all day long. So, I'm guessing that was what our problem was as I only threw the frog for 30-45 minutes.

 

[Bprice]

As I also thought, they might be deep deep deep in the grass... means frog/rat fishing matts will be great this year.

 

[polo-dog]

Bprice, you said that it was hard to figure out where to fish along a 40mile long grassline. I would say that if it were me I'd decide to fish stumpbeds, roadbeds, outside channel bends and cuts through the grasslines if it were me. If you break those long lines down into places that look good on the maps with or without grass you'll find the better fish. Just my thinking. Do you have a map of where the roadbeds are in G'ville? Which map do you use to fish G'ville?

 

[Bprice]

I use Atlantis maps...

Yes it has roadbeds on it, and we have fished several of them on the lower end of the lake, near Honeycomb, and caught fish.

I just have been trying to learn the Mink/North Sauty portion of the lake this summer, and I know there aren't many in that area. We have also tried locating old ponds that are on the map, but they must be silted in or something now.

 

[polo-dog]

Those look like interesting areas. I think that both of them would have old roadbeds back near the bridges. I don't have black and white maps of those creeks however I do have some of the old maps of some other areas of G'ville.