Guntersville getting Much Needed Restocking

Thanks to some great work by Professional Angler Chris Lane, Guntersville will get some much-needed addition of Florida strain bass, as a restocking program will see its first year of hopefully many trying to regain the prominence of the past with 50,000 Florida Strain bass starting this May. I cannot tell you how important this will be to the population of bass in the lake.

Enormous crowds, increased tournaments and the pure number of people enjoying bass fishing has taken its toll on Lake Guntersville and this restocking could not come soon enough! We all realize that Guntersville is an enormous size lake with 69,000 acres of water. It has been said that 90% of the bass are in 10% of the lake but restocking gives the lake a chance to increase the location percentage as the more bass put into the lake trough restocking the wider the area they occupy, increasing the chances of the average fisherman for catching fish. We can only hope that this will be widely popular and increase in popularity and the numbers of bass put into the lake grow every year and the lake starts receiving the much-needed attention of businesses and fishing enthusiasts as they see the results in revenue and sales and becomes a popular by-product of the restocking; support should grow for this as all sees the results over time. If you do not understand the importance just look at the results in Lake Chickamauga as restocking has made it a big fish lake where 10-pound bass are being caught in big numbers yearly and numbers of fish have increased substantially over the time of restocking and increasing the percentage of water holding big groups of fish as helped greatly over time.