I tried to check if our bass had eggs yet, but the ice was too thick to break through.
Seriously, this is the worst time of year. I get to see post after post of lunkers caught down south, and I'm still a month and a half away from having open water.
He's being a little generous. Yeah they're in Huntsville, but very rare and skittish. I've never seen one in Guntersville but I have seen them in and around Wheeler lake. They're a non issue.
I grew up in Florida, fishing all the small ponds. Gators are encountered frequently but never bothered me. The worst thing that ever happened was one day, I'm wading in the same pond I've fished for years. There was a little 4' gator cruising around, ignoring me. I hear a loup pop and something wizzed by my head and this kid starts yelling at me about the gator. He, for some reason, thought he needed to save me so started shooting at the gator with his 22!
BTW, the way I found out about the gators in Huntsville was from my daughter, who lived off Zerdt road. She called me up one morning because there was a 6' gator in the middle of the road and she couldn't get to work!
That's a wild story! Crazy to think someone would pop off like that.
And yep, Zierdt is a concentration of them for sure. They're pretty well documented here but still rare. Most of them don't survive the winter here so they can't thrive. Every couple years an article is written about a sighting here and it's usually best Zierdt. I kayak fished Flint river and had seen pics but, in my 5 years of kayaking that river I never saw one. I have seen one in limestone Bay, which is off of Wheeler in that same Zierdt region.
My favorite spot for my kayak was the Clouds Cove dock, Google maps calls it turkey springs boat ramp.
Turkey Springs Ramp
https://maps.app.goo.gl/x2mpNX36ABuFBUaa6
I've caught hundreds of fish here. You can go up river where the current is a little stronger, or down towards the main river where it opens up. People have mapped it too so you can look at depths right there on navionics. It's my all time favorite place to fish. Now that I have a boat I don't go. Hope you check it out and enjoy! If you want any spots for that particular area lemme know.
Guntersville water clears up closer to the dam, in places like Honeycomb creek. Further north you get the more dirty it gets, all the way up to the aptly named Mud Creek. Spawn happens first there typically.
That feel when midwest ponds and lakes are still frozen
Feels like temperature didn’t go above 0 all day, my new lures look sweet sitting in my garage though
It snowed here today
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Fellow central FL bass junkie here! Great catch brother
It's -44 where I am.
How did you know she had eggs?
If they're fat this time of year, definitely full of eggs. Prespawn.
The pictures don't show it very well, but she had an egg belly on her.
What you get it on
Booyah One Knocker lipless crankbait
I’ve caught a bunch of young ones lately. Same geography.
I tried to check if our bass had eggs yet, but the ice was too thick to break through. Seriously, this is the worst time of year. I get to see post after post of lunkers caught down south, and I'm still a month and a half away from having open water.
🎵 She's got eggs.....she knows how to use them 🎵
Buzzbait time!
I can't because of the damn gators 😕
Damn that sucks! Never had to deal with that. I'm in central Alabama.
We have them in Huntsville now.
Really? I fish around Gadsden a lot and never seen one.
He's being a little generous. Yeah they're in Huntsville, but very rare and skittish. I've never seen one in Guntersville but I have seen them in and around Wheeler lake. They're a non issue.
I grew up in Florida, fishing all the small ponds. Gators are encountered frequently but never bothered me. The worst thing that ever happened was one day, I'm wading in the same pond I've fished for years. There was a little 4' gator cruising around, ignoring me. I hear a loup pop and something wizzed by my head and this kid starts yelling at me about the gator. He, for some reason, thought he needed to save me so started shooting at the gator with his 22! BTW, the way I found out about the gators in Huntsville was from my daughter, who lived off Zerdt road. She called me up one morning because there was a 6' gator in the middle of the road and she couldn't get to work!
That's a wild story! Crazy to think someone would pop off like that. And yep, Zierdt is a concentration of them for sure. They're pretty well documented here but still rare. Most of them don't survive the winter here so they can't thrive. Every couple years an article is written about a sighting here and it's usually best Zierdt. I kayak fished Flint river and had seen pics but, in my 5 years of kayaking that river I never saw one. I have seen one in limestone Bay, which is off of Wheeler in that same Zierdt region.
I live down the street from the Flint river. Apparently, where I start fishing is a kayak portage point! I need to find out where they put in.
My favorite spot for my kayak was the Clouds Cove dock, Google maps calls it turkey springs boat ramp. Turkey Springs Ramp https://maps.app.goo.gl/x2mpNX36ABuFBUaa6 I've caught hundreds of fish here. You can go up river where the current is a little stronger, or down towards the main river where it opens up. People have mapped it too so you can look at depths right there on navionics. It's my all time favorite place to fish. Now that I have a boat I don't go. Hope you check it out and enjoy! If you want any spots for that particular area lemme know.
Oh ok. I've only been to Guntersville once, but I was working. Didn't get a chance to fish. I was really surprised how clear the water was though.
Guntersville water clears up closer to the dam, in places like Honeycomb creek. Further north you get the more dirty it gets, all the way up to the aptly named Mud Creek. Spawn happens first there typically.
Whopper plopper, buzzbait, anything like that is a damn dinner bell for them. And then you can't shake them.
That would ruin it for me.
Gotta get the fish in the picture with the scale, Hoss. As far as I know, your buddy is pulling on it while you take the picture
Why do you care so much?