Details About Articles Reports

· Professional Bass Fishing Guide Service. Living in the North Alabama Area since the 70's and fishing Lake Guntersville for over 40 years. I have many published fishing articles world wide in magazines, newspapers and on-line magazines. Featured in the October 08 issue of Alabama Out door News; also made the cover of ODU May of 2018. I offer the most comprehensive information for Lake Guntersville, fishing tips, reports, and featured articles.I challenge you to utilize my Professional Guide Service and compare the knowledge, friendliness and good time on the water to anyone. 

· If your company is looking for a way to entertain your customers, we put on corporate trips second to none, we can support up to 40 fisherman at one time! 

· Pre-Tournament fishing days are available! Bass Fishing at its best!

· We have 5 guides with years of experience on Lake Guntersville USCG licensed Captain Mike Gerry

Fishing Report, Lake Guntersville 10/16/21

The daily changes are never so strong as they are in the fall, and until the water cools into the 60’s change will be the name of the game. One day they were killing it the next day bites were at a premium; you just must stay the course, but patience can be testy. It was also a remarkably busy week on Guntersville, boats everywhere on every point, turn and grass line all week long!

The strongest bite for me was on the SPRO frog and SPRO square bill crank bait, we are also catching them on Tight-Line swim jigs, Tight-Line football jigs and traditional chatter baits. You just must keep moving as the pressure changed them daily and when you dial in on them work that area hard for the best results. Be persistent and make them bite, sometimes that is easier said than done.

Come fish with me I have guides and days available to fish with you, no one will treat you better or work harder to make sure you have a fun day on the water. We fish with great sponsor products, Ranger Boats, Boat Logix Mounts, Mercury Motors, Lowrance Electronics, Vicious Fishing, Lews Fishing, Power Pole, Dawson Boat Center, Missile baits and more!

Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service

www.fishlakeguntersvilleguideservice.com

www.facebook.com/FishGuntersville

Email: bassguide@comcast.net

Call: 256 759 2270

Capt. Mike Gerry

Control Speed and Tempo

There is never a time of year that being able to dictate your reel speed and tempo to get bites is as important as it is in the fall. Fall is reaction time and when you are competing with tons of bait fish that they feed on you must be able to do something that makes a bass turn and strike your bait. There are several ways to work a bait and certainly many of them require you to work them very quickly to produce the action the bait was designed for; however, working that bait can certainly require you to slow down, speed up, change cadence and tempo and we are experiencing that critical time now! 

Let me give you an example, many of us are successful at fishing a frog when we burn it across a grass mat. Excellent example of when and how to catch fish; burning it does require you to change speeds and tempo many times to be successful. If you are burning the frog without stopping, slowing, spending back up, then you could very well have the wrong tempo required to get a bass to bite.  When your best friend tells you to burn it and they will bite does not necessarily mean he never slows down, or stops the bait to change the tempo, this can be a critical piece of retrieve speed. 

All baits we fish with require thought on the presentation; and many times, the presentation you use at first light may need to be changed drastically to get the same bite at 11am. Fish are more active many times at 6am than they are at 11am and retrieve speed and tempo needs to be changed many times as the day progresses. 

Lastly tournament anglers are a perfect example of critical retrieve speed. Many times, a tournament angler hits the water for a practice day and really slays the fish. He goes back to the same spot at the same time of day during the tournament and cannot get his fish to bite; why? He is fishing with a different tempo than he did during his practice time. Not realizing how critical this can be, his body is hyped up and the speed and tempo at which he caught fish in practice has changed!

Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service

www.fishlakeguntersvilleguideservice.com

www.facebook.com/FishGuntersville

Email: bassguide@comcast.net

Call: 256 759 2270

Captain Mike Gerry