March Madness on Guntersville is upon us
When the month Of March pushes itself into the southern fishing world lakes like Guntersville turn on and it's the start of the best part of the season for those who are lucky enough to be able to fish it! No other month offers so many possible presentations for the average fisherman to be successful. If you like fishing fast moving baits, then March is turned on to the pre spawn bite where rattle baits, speed reeling square bill crank baits or burning swim baits over grass beds are extremely successful.
The intense power fisherman has a blast on Guntersville in March as any fast moving presentation can catch you a big sack of fish in a short day on the water. You like burning big spinner baits, have no fear as the month of March is the ideal time to do it. Speed, size and power are all signs of some strong fishing for the nations site of the 2014 Bass Master Classic in the month of March; it is the charge into pre spawn fishing and no other lake in America offers this kind of fun for the average fisherman as does Lake Guntersville. The skilled fisherman will locate the hard bottom areas like road beds stump fields and more and target pre-spawn females with SPRO Fat Pappa 70's or Little John Baby DD's.
With the constant change in weather in the North Alabama area during the month of March the water temperature runs up and down on a daily bases. The change in weather gives the finesse fisherman his chance to be successful on Guntersville just as the power fisherman does. The bass don't all move at one time and become aggressive, many stay deep and move very slowly to the spawn and the finesse fisherman can be successful fishing baits like a drop shot, or moving a lightly rigged shaky head rigs over deep stump fields and along the ledges. The key is just finding the deep cover, with your Lowrance Structure scan and you can load the boat as a finesse fisherman on Guntersville in the month of March!
The finesse fisherman can also work many other finesse type baits as the staging fish are still reacting in March to small jigs like 1/16 oz. size just as if you are fishing for pan fish. Some of the biggest bass caught every year are caught in the middle of crappie beds working small grubs on jigs around the bridges where all the bait stacks up in the month of March. One of the most forgotten finesse baits is a lightly rigged Carolina rig with a small fluke hanging 18 inches below the 1/8 oz weight moved slowly like finesse bait.
If you're a top water fisherman and enjoy fishing a frog or a buzz bait, some of the best top water fishing on Guntersville occurs with the water temperature in the mid 50's over less than a foot of water. The early spawning fish move into the cover like Lilly Pads, Asian weed beds and left over milfoil; these fish are very aggressive and reactive to baits moved over their heads with noise, speed and changing presentations. Take your boat to the back end of your favorite creek on Guntersville, run it until your turning up mud with your trolling motor and find the Asian weed and hold on as you can truly get the rod ripped out of your hand. This is the best of the reactive time on Guntersville and noisy buzz baits, or SPRO frogs with BB's in them can cause a monster to react to your bait. Hold on folks as your libel to have your favorite rod pulled out of your hand and find yourself fishing it off the bottom if you don't hold on tight.
Some of us old folks just really enjoy the world's oldest and most successful artificial bait fishing a big worm during the month of March, it can get us well established old timers on the water fishing that favorite colored big worm. No bait has passed the test of time like fishing a big worm, it has been around for many years and fishing it in so many ways has changed bass fishing for ever. Those of us that grew up working a big worm under the old saying, " if you think your fishing it slow, slow it down some more;" can just have a blast pulling that big worm off ledges and grass beds and around spawning areas during the month of March. It always catches fish, it is the most successful artificial bait ever and there is just no wrong way to fish it. The artificial worm has been the leader in change for the soft plastic world of fishing. The many presentations a worm can be worked has lead to many of today's most popular baits, like swim baits, finesse worms, monster worms and many more. If your love is fishing a worm regardless of how you will present it; March will offer up great fishing for the soft plastic fisherman.
The truth is to be told, March on Guntersville is a month that the most average fisherman can have a blast, all you need to do is join the fun and come visit Lake Guntersville and enjoy some March fishing. The fact is you can even target boat docks on the bright sunny days especially the docks where the creeks front end the spawning grounds and catch plenty of fish. Don't let the cold winter of 2014 keep you from enjoying some of the best fishing days anywhere. Yes, March madness is here the difference is it's not the traditional basketball bonanza that occurs in college basketball, but rather a great day of fishing on Lake Guntersville that will make you forget about the basketball tradition and enjoy the great bonanza of March bass fishing on Lake Guntersville.
Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service
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Phone 256 759 2270
Captain Mike Gerry