Launch question below Guntersville Dam?

I can remember holding down the non-power brake pedal with both my feet and all my might on my dad's old 70-something GMC on that ramp while he pulled the boat off the trailer. I might have been 8 and I was sure I was going to sink the truck. In retrospect, I'm sure the parking brake was on. I don't know if it worked, but it was probably on.

I can also remember once when a strong wind was coming out of the west and blowing straight up river against the current. That produced the biggest waves I've ever seen on freshwater. There should have been people out there on surf boards.

Anyway, I digress. Yes, there's a ramp.

Right now they are fluctuating the water at Gville dam so you may get to the ramp and it be down 2 feet or it may be up 2 feet. The big G is presently been lowered to affect the grass so I have been told so they a generate when the need is greatest usually in the morning and late afternoons .The retainer wall blocks the current if you don't let your boat go to far out ounce you get it into the water .Right at this minute they are running 24000 cfts which id mid idle for the turbines .at max they will run 48000 cfts.As for me best fishing is when its running 30000cfts or more and worst conditions is when they have cut them off and the water is dropping. you can go online at this addy and see what they are doing and they also have a log as to how much they generated the last 2 days https://www.tva.gov/Environment/Lake...s/Guntersville

Ditto to the dam is a lot more than a 15 minute run! There are great ramps and parking lots on both the N and S side of the dam.

Well I went yesterday and struck out....I had 3 bites but unable to put any of them in the boat. My son went along and he did not catch anything either. Now I launched on the south side of the river and the water was down and the ramp had a change of slope to steeper just before the water level and this made it especially fun loading the boat with the current. I think if I go back I will try the ramp on the south side. Water temp was 47 degrees and from what I could tell the fish had lock jaw. I found 1 spot with alot of fish showing on the depth finder and all I could get was the 3 bites on minnows. Otherwise all fish showing on the depth finder were really scattered.

We gonna have to team up one day!

I am probably tied up with work and Christmas shopping until next year unless I get lucky and Christmas shut down projects go real well at work. But next year I will be ready to go. I would like to try it again.

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Originally Posted by WileyG

We gonna have to team up one day!

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