Early Spring Patterns

Patterns for Early Spring

Guntersville can fish different during the early spring depending on where you are on the lake as the upper river can be quite different than the lower end or mid river. When I hit the water in early spring, I start the day out cutting the lake up into different depths; Guntersville has many tales to tell in early spring and there is a good reason for it! Guntersville can be completely different depending on where you are fishing and results from different depths are not the same all up and down the river.

If you are upriver above BB Comer Bridge in early spring there is truly little deep water, so fish that might be deep are not any deeper than 10 to 12 ft. because the upper river is so shallow. If your mid river or around the lower end the lake widens, and the depth can be as deep as 45 ft. so the bass can stage in 20 to 25 ft. of water. There are also some differences in water temperature, which being the shallow water warms quicker than deeper water so the fish movement can be completely different. The upper river warming earlier than the mid and lower end, generally allows the fish to go into pre spawn and the spawn sometimes 3 to 4 weeks early as water temperatures can get into the 60’s much quicker upriver.