How to Fish Offshore Grass Lines on Lake Guntersville in May

How to Fish Offshore Grass on Lake Guntersville in May

If you are looking for a special key to catching fish on Lake Guntersville offshore grass fishing is one of the best consistent patterns to catching quality bass on Lake Guntersville; the month of May just adds to the great patterns on Guntersville. I know the easy thing is to focus on bank fishing in May but the biggest and most aggressive bass live offshore as that is where the bait concentrates in May.

The key is learning the most productive offshore areas, what to look for visually and through your electronics. Visually, grass edges are always a good start as the bait can hide along the edges and find safety in the edge of grass lines. Holes in grass are key also, as they are easily recognized and are safe areas for the bait as well as the bass as they can both hide and offer areas for them to stay out of the bright sun. Electronics can be key to discovering the offshore productive areas, side scan can be your best friend as they expose the bait and groups of fish along the edges. The grass edges also become areas where shells gather up as the current pushes the shells into the grass edges offering hard bottom areas along grass lines and create oxygen for the bigger bass to live in. Shell bottom areas are easy to identify with your electronics; it is just a matter of spending a little time understanding the visual identifiers so you can focus on the shell areas.

Finding offshore grass is easy as the milfoil and hydrilla does not grow much deeper that about twelve feet. Allowing you to focus on the on the 6 to 15 ft. depths away from the shoreline. Look for creek channels or river ledges on you mapping; it is easy to identify and always leads you to the offshore areas where the grass is growing on Guntersville. May is also known for the big blue gill beds in shallow water yet offshore, the bass feed in these beds during the shad spawn and bluegill spawn and offshore beds on top the creek edges or ledges are great producers of good numbers of bass. You can easily become an offshore fisherman; it just takes your commitment!