Best Winter Lure Techniques on Guntersville

Best Winter Lure Techniques on Guntersville

There is no doubt that the chilly water in the Winter on Guntersville creates a tough bite, however fishing with the right lure can change everything. Sometimes technique is everything, presentation combined with right lure can change your day significantly. The key is to be open minded and sometimes that means trying something you may not be comfortable with; I start the frigid winter days fishing a ½ oz. jig. In the chilly water one thing you can count on is the bass feeding on crawfish, this time of year they feed on slow moving food source and that is where a crawfish fits in on the food chain. Bass can easily feed on a slow-moving crawfish, and a jig emulates one exactly allowing you to drag it, hop it and slowly move it along grass edges on Guntersville. Obvious colors like black and blue or green pumpkin are my choice, it is also an exciting time to utilize the football jig as the winter is a time of year where the current is strong because of the rain and a football jig attaches to the bottom easier than other styles.

The colder the water gets, the more jerk bait becomes my source for catching on Guntersville, a suspending jerk bait dropping to the 4 to 6 ft. range is a great bait to bring bass up to attack a sharp moving jerk bait. Clear water in the winter is always an issue, using a jerk bait around bluff walls or deep grass lines with long pauses of 5 to 10 seconds can land you a trophy. Jerk baits come in several sizes and styles, but their action is the key to their success a jerk bait must be easily twitched and respond with ease to your movement, finding the right jerk bait style and action is key.

Lastly as the winter moves into February on Guntersville and the sun warms the water during the sunny part of the day nothing gets more reaction bites than a lipless crankbait “rattletrap.” On warmer winter days burning a rattle trap or yo-yoing it over the edges of the grass lines is a bass catcher. Reds, chromes and gold colors are always my choice, they just catch fish, and you should have a box full.