C&B GUIDE SERVICE AT LAKE GUNTERSVILLE - OFTEN CALLED
AMERICA'S BEST BIG BASS LAKE
Crappie Fish for Big Guntersville Bass in June
EDITOR'S
NOTE: Bobby Bright and Charley Slaten of Boaz, Alabama,
own C&B Guide Service and specialize in fishing
Alabama's Lake Guntersville, Lake Logan Martin and Lake
Neely Henry. These two fishing guides make their living
helping their customers catch fish, and they depend
on their equipment every day they're on the water. This
week Bright and Slaten will tell us how they fish and
how they consistently catch more fish than other anglers
do.
Question: Why are crappie fishermen so important to
catching big bass at Lake Guntersville in June?
Bright: Crappie fishermen sink brush and tree tops,
and during this time of the year, bass will be holding
in brush and treetops. Therefore, if you know where
the crappie fishermen are sinking their brush, you also
can pinpoint the spots that are holding big bass.
Question: What are you using to catch the bass in the
buck brush?
Bright: I'll use a 1/2-ounce black-and-blue jig or
watermelon-seed jig and fishing these jigs on 15-pound-test
Mossy Oak Fishing Line. I like the 15-pound-test Mossy
Oak line because I can feel the strike better and control
my jig better with this pound-test line than I can with
heavier line. Also, the 15-pound-test Mossy Oak Fishing
Line is so abrasion resistant and so much stronger than
other line companies' 15-pound-test line, that I'm not
afraid to use this lighter line when I'm trying to catch
big bass in heavy brush.
Question:
What kind of trailer are you using when you fish for
bass in June, and why?
Bright: I like to use a plastic trailer instead of
a cork trailer. With a plastic trailer, you don't have
to put it in your mouth and keep it there until you're
ready to fish it to keep it moist like you do with a
cork trailer - now don't tell people I said that. Really,
the plastic jig holds up better during the summer months.
If I'm using a black-and-blue jig, I like a black trailer.
I'll fish the jig primarily in deep brush.
Question: How are you fishing that deep brush?
Bright: I'll flip the jig into the brush, let it fall
all the way to the bottom, crawl the jig and then twitch
it through that brush.
Question: What's the secret to finding that deep brush?
Bright: There's some really good crappie to be found
at Lake Guntersville, and everyone knows that. Many
homeowners sink brush out in front of their piers or
docks. Most bass fishermen are so tuned into fishing
piers and docks that they concentrate all their fishing
around the piers and docks and don't ever look for the
brush out in front of the docks. Another good giveaway
to finding brush is to look for lights out on the dock
that homeowners will turn on to concentrate crappie
around the lights. Usually wherever a light is, you'll
also find brush about
a pole's length or a rod-cast distance out in front
of the dock. If you'll search for that brush with your
depth finder, you'll locate it. Most of the time the
brush with the big bass in it will be right below where
bass fishermen's boats are when they're flipping and
fishing docks. At this time of the year, the crappie
have moved out of the tops and the bass have moved in,
so when you find those tops that originally have been
put down for crappie, sometimes you'll find good bass
in them. We also look for brush on points and drop-offs
where crappie fishermen normally sink brush for crappie.
One critical item that you have to remember when you're
fishing this much cover is that you check your line
for nicks and cuts about every third or fourth cast.
If you find those nicks and cuts on the line, or if
your line feels rough, break off and re-tie. Unlike
the Senko worm fishing, when a treetop bass hits the
jig that fish will hit it hard and fight hard too. You're
really going to have to work that bass out of the treetop.
Oftentimes we'll catch two bass out of one treetop before
we move to the next one. We also fish jigs on the points
of grass. We'll pitch the jig out to the point, let
it fall, swim it to the edge of the drop-off and then
allow it to fall again.
Question: What size bass are you catching at Guntersville
in June?
Bright: We're catching bass that weigh from 3- to 8-pounds
each. On an average day, you may catch some 4- to 5-pound
bass. On a good day, you'll catch 10 to 15 bass weighing
from 2- to 5-pounds each. In three days of fishing,
I expect our party to catch at least one fish that weighs
8 pounds. Getting a bass that weighs more than 8 pounds
is much tougher, even at Guntersville, which is known
as a big-bass lake. We'll
usually produce from two to eight bass that weigh more
than 8-pounds each here in a year's time. As I said
in the beginning, Charley and I have really been fishing
this Mossy Oak Fishing Line hard this spring and summer.
We've used over 3,000 yards of Mossy Oak line for crappie,
bluegills, shellcrackers, bass and an occasional catfish.
We've got the experience with the line to know that
it's a better line and does a better job for us than
any other lines we've used in the past. This week I've
told you where we fish and how we fish with the line
we use. I hope you'll take the information I've provided
and the line I've recommended to have a great day of
fishing next time you're out in the water.
For more information about fishing with C&B Guide
Service, you can call (256) 593-7830, (256) 738-4293
(Bobby Bright) and/or (256) 572-6217 (Charley).
To learn more about Mossy Oak Fishing Line's top-quality
lines, go to www.mossyoakfishing.com.
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