Fishing Report for Guntersville

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It was a quick turnaround from Friday evening when we fished Ditto from 5-9. Brad and I both were one tournament short of qualifying for the Cargo Club Classic, so we both had to fish this event. However, neither of us were able to get out there and prefish and we both knew it was going to be really tough. At one point, we were content to fishing the morning just for fun and then eating the entry fee and heading home.

My daughter had a softball tournament. My son had a football game. Brad had plenty of things going on and both of us really wanted to watch football as well. But, we made a deal just to go fishing and see what happens. 

The water temps inside of Roseberry were right at 78 degree but there was no current being generated at Nickajack and Guntersville dam was dropping water. Not a great recipe for success.

We started the morning fishing a spot Brad had caught some fish this time last year on topwater. We actually caught several fish on Pop-Rs at this little flat outside South Sauty in less than six feet of water. The grass was scattered and wasn't topped out anywhere in this area. The fish were all small and we quickly abandoned this because it was obvious there was tons of small fish. While Brad caught a bunch more than me, I tried to get them to bite several other baits including spinnerbaits and chatterbaits, but nothing was biting.

From here we hit a couple of other similar spots but couldn't get a single bite. Because there were no clouds, we figured we would start looking deep. We checked several places where we've found schools of fish this time of year. One in particular had a few fish but they were scattered due to the lack of current and we couldn't get them to bite. I had one pull a worm off my hook, but that was it. 

We combed these areas with jigs, worms, and cranks. 

We went back to a shallow water spot or two. No popping and no action. 

On a whim, we scanned the bends entering south Sauty and found a school of fish on a stumpfield. On my first cast, I caught a keeper on a jig. Brad boated a short on the next cast. We were REALLY excited at this point thinking we might be on to something. But we weren't. Those were the only bites we had.

At this point, it was 11AM and we had one keeper and it was getting hot. We decided that we would fish from 11-12 in the back of Roseberry frogging. First few mats we hit, no popping and no bites. I was about to give up but we decided to hit one more.

Immediately, I had two blow ups and they were fairly weak hits. Third was a great hit and the fish came completely out of the water. It was a really good fish and it took me what felt like five minutes to get the fish in the boat. It was a six pound head and and a five pound body, but it was a start.

Few casts later, another blow up from another four pounder, but she didn't get it. I boated a short on the frog and had about two other blowups. Then it quit. 

We ran the rest of the stretch, came back and tried it again, but never got another bite. At that point, we gave up and dumped the fish. That might have been a mistake as it took 13.61 to win, 12.67 to get second and just 6.61 to get third. Big fish was 3.61 and the fish I had caught would have beaten that.

However, I was glad to get off the water when we did. In all we caught around 10 fish with top water being the only thing we caught multiple fish on. 

Reckon we will stick to fishing Wheeler in the evenings. We plan to fish again this Friday 5-8 out of Ditto. Message me for details.