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Is there a launch on the south side of the river at Guntersville Dam? Me and my son are both off work tomorrow and want to go in the morning and would like to maybe fish below the dam. Last time I fished below the dam I put in in Decatur and ran to the dam, which is too far to run in this temperature of for me anyway.
https://boatramps.dcnr.alabama.gov
Indian Creek Boat ramp will shorten it some on the North side and Ditto Landing Wii cut even more off from the South side. I am not familiar with the river any higher up but there may be one on the list that is better
Yes they are a put in up by the dam come on through NewHope on 431 you should see the big sign on your right that says Tva Guntersville turn their follow to the river.
Thanks guys I was really looking for information on the south side of the river. Looking at googlemaps it shows a ramp at the dam but I was wondering if it was open to public use.
Yes, unless it has changed recently, there is a public ramp on the south side. It's been years since I've been there though.
Yes there is a public ramp on the south side of the dam. Nice wide ramp. No dock or pier just a small retainer wall on the driver's side of the boat. Be careful with the water being low the ramp will be very slick.
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What Gmann said. I've been wanting to go but fishing alone I don't know that I want to put my glass hull on the concrete to park the truck and then again to get the trailer back in the water to loa and leave. A pier would have to be concrete to survive flooding. Water has been a few feet deep in the parking lot a few times over the years.
Yep, it's been a few feet deep in the parking lot. A few years ago I was down there after a flooding rain and there was a mangled boat in the parking lot. It had ridden through the flood gates.
As the others said, the ramp is fine, but it's steep. Best bet is to put in, and putt around to the right and beach it on the dirt. Wind is supposed to be brutal tomorrow so keep that in mind, especially if it's out of the west, it will beat you up bad.
My first time loading a boat back on the trailer, on the south side ramp, was an humbling experience. I had the boat completely crossways on the trailer at one time. You've got to lead the trailer like you'd lead a dove with a shotgun while hunting. With a 20 mph wind and fast current it's surely a challenge.
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I put in at Ditto landing and run up to the dam. I'm guessing it's about 15 miles.
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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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