Thread: The Struggle Continues........

It's been a rough crappie season for sure .If it were not for the Bass and catfish the pickings would be slim. Grilling large mouth Bass has become a favorite of the family the Bass have been to big to fry.

saw a few reports on folks starting to catch them up there

The same with me fishing Guntersville, one here and there, no concentration, no pattern working that I can find. I hope it gets better or I am going to change species or something. The fishing has been good but the catching is poor. Fished Sunday morning and only caught two, one shallow maybe 2 feet deep on a small home made jig, and one over 20 foot of water about 10 foot deep. I really don't no what to do except keep going and as they say a blind hog will find an acorn if he roots enough. Maybe this flood we have will make a change.

Was out with CS on Saturday afternoon/evenging on the Big G. We found some 62 degree water and started fishing. We managed 30 nice chunky fish while long lining in 6-8 FOW in a stump field. Best color was Jelly blue w/ chartreuse tail. Not a single short fish. No bloody tails but some of them had their spawning colors on and two of the females (Whites) had loose eggs so I think it's starting to turn for the better. Got a real nice black on a jig I bought from litebite56 earlier that day. Got to do some double duty Saturday by fishing Weiss in the morning with LB56 and then moved over to the Big G in the afternoon to fish with CS. Fish on the Big G were 14 whites and 16 blacks.

Originally Posted by Bob D

Was out with CS on Saturday afternoon/evenging on the Big G. We found some 62 degree water and started fishing. We managed 30 nice chunky fish while long lining in 6-8 FOW in a stump field. Best color was Jelly blue w/ chartreuse tail. Not a single short fish. No bloody tails but some of them had their spawning colors on and two of the females (Whites) had loose eggs so I think it's starting to turn for the better. Got a real nice black on a jig I bought from litebite56 earlier that day. Got to do some double duty Saturday by fishing Weiss in the morning with LB56 and then moved over to the Big G in the afternoon to fish with CS. Fish on the Big G were 14 whites and 16 blacks.

What part of the lake were you fishing bob? If you don't mind. I had a buddy that fished up around scottsboro and said he found 62-64 degree water and ended up with a limit also but like I said I never found water temp over 59 degrees.

Creeks on the S side of the lake have been doing better than the N side this year so far.

In Brown's Creek it's basically 56-58 degrees on the North side of the causeway, and 60-62 on the South side of the causeway. At South Sauty it's 57-59 on North side of causeway w/60-62 in shallow protected areas away from the channels. Don't know about South side of causeway. Struggled to get half a dozen crappie on Friday in Brown's creek, but all but one were caught in the 60-62 degree water. Big Surprise, caught a good sized yellow perch in the colder water just as we started fishing.

I found 65°+ water in Goosepond Saturday evening in the campground but didnt catch a single crappie. Was probably 6-7 boats drifting around for crappie and only saw 1 small one caught total.