{"id":12474,"date":"2024-02-06T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2024-02-06T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T13:48:18","slug":"fishing-tip-of-the-week-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=12474","title":{"rendered":"Fishing tip of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Late Winter\/Early Spring on Guntersville<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Mike Gerry<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guntersville can be completely different from the north end to the south in late winter.<br \/>\nWhen I hit the water in early spring, I generally start the day out cutting the lake up into different<br \/>\ndepths.<!--more--><br \/>\nGuntersville seems to have many tales to tell in early spring and there is a good<br \/>\nreason for it! Guntersville can be completely different depending on where you are fishing<br \/>\nthis time of year.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re upriver above BB Comer Bridge in early spring there is very little deep water, and<br \/>\nmany long creeks, so fish that might be deep, are generally not any deeper than 10 to 12 ft.<br \/>\nbecause the upper river is so shallow. <br \/>\nIf you\u2019re mid river or around the lower end, the lake<br \/>\nwidens, and the depth can be as deep as 45 ft. so the bass can stage in 20 to 25 ft. of water.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some differences in water temperature, that being the shallow water warms<br \/>\nquicker than deeper water so the fish movement can be completely different. The upper<br \/>\nriver warming earlier than the mid and lower end, generally allows the fish to go into pre-<br \/>\nspawn and the spawn sometimes 3 to 4 weeks early as water temperatures can get into the<br \/>\n60\u2019s much quicker upriver.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I continually try to do is cut the area up that I am fishing with different<br \/>\nbaits; I will work deep crank baits off staging drops first to either eliminate deep water or find<br \/>\nfeeding fish. I then get to the next drops at about 10 to 12 ft., and I work several baits at this<br \/>\ndepth, rattle baits, square bill crank baits and jigs. Lastly if that hasn\u2019t produced some good<br \/>\nfish I then get into the shallows, and I always look for cover at this depth. Boat house, lay<br \/>\ndowns, rock, or just odd objects sticking up out of the water and of course the grass. My<br \/>\nfavorite bait in shallow water for big fish is always a jig. It is a catching machine in shallow<br \/>\nwater for me.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing from the staging drops to the mid-range water or the second drop if you will to the<br \/>\nred clay bank shallow water is one of the best tips I can offer in early spring!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Captain Mike<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Winter\/Early Spring on Guntersville by Mike Gerry Guntersville can be completely different from the north end to the south in late winter. When I hit the water in early spring, I generally start the day out cutting the lake up into different depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12475,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions\/12475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}