Thread: Launch question below Guntersville Dam?

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!