11 Pound Guntersville Bass

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Jeff Nail’s Lake Lanier Bass Fishing Report

Lake Hartwell Fishing Report from Captain Mack

 

Lake Lanier Fishing Report from Captain Mack

Lake Guntersville Weekly Fishing Report from Captain Mike Gerry

Lake Country Fishing – fishing reports on Lakes Sinclair and Oconee, and more. (subscription required)

Texas Parks and Wildlife Weekly Freshwater Fishing Reports

Texas Parks and Wildlife Weekly Saltwater Reports

Fishing Report 4/27/24

We are not quite there with the weather yet, but we had a more consistent week weather-wise than we have had all spring. This helped add to the bite as the bass were not on the
move as much as they had been, allowing us to find the fish quicker each day. It was,
however, the most consistent week of the year, and we had a blast.

We pretty much stuck with moving baits all week, Duckett Spinner Baits, Tight-Line swim jigs,
SPRO crank baits, and some Missile Bait 48 stick baits up in the day. The bites were active,
and the post spawn bite got better each day, I love this time of year especially the deep crank
bait bite.

Benefits of Fishing the Shad Spawn

When it comes to an exciting and active time in bass fishing nothing beats fishing the shad
spawn; there is a very good reason for this and that is the abundance of large amounts of
food source. There are no doubt large numbers of shad making the bass easy bray and
abundance of food to feed on. This phenom known as the shad spawn increases the bass
activity making the bass more susceptible to your bait and much easier to have some great
catches not only in numbers but in size. Just about any moving bait fished during the shad
spawn causes reaction bites as the bass attack rapidly and continually when this occurs.

Your chances of targeting active fish, feeding fish and big fish increase 3-fold; your bait gets
slammed and attacked by feeding bass and in most cases you’re in for the time of your life in
bass fishing. The bass generally feed near the surface over the top of structure like wood or
grass and generally in shallow water. This makes baits like top-water fishing extremely active
and rewarding as the bass strike without hesitation on surface baits moving over their heads.

Fast moving baits like swim jigs, chatter baits, spinner baits all become great choices along
with your top-water baits as you look for feeding during the shad spawn. It’s a time when you
can easily plan a fishing trip just by looking at the topographical maps and fish the shallow
water areas close to the deep-water drops putting you in position to target pre-planned areas
easily during the shad spawn. This phenomenon is predictable and occurs every year as the water
temperatures warm into the low 70’s on most bass fishing impoundments.
Although the shad spawn out continually during the year for about 9 out of the 12 months
the first one that occurs during the warming water is the most active and most productive as
the bass have been healing up from their spawning activity, they are hungry and competitive and
the overabundance of food cause them to feed aggressively. It’s a time that makes bass
fishing easy, fun and extremely productive.

Come fish with me I have days available the movement into spring patterns is close and the best is yet to come. Call today to schedule your trip to Lake Guntersville. We fish with great sponsor products, Mercury Motors, Ranger Boats, Lowrance Electronics, Dawson Boat Center, Toyota Trucks, Vicious Fishing, Duckett Fishing, Lew’s Fishing, Power Pole, Missile Baits T&H Marine and more.