Wheeler Lake

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Last Updated: 05/18/2013
Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service

Fishing Report, Wheeler 5/18/13

This past week on the lake was once again as good as it gets anywhere; it would just be hard for me to believe that maybe outside of a farm pond where the bass basically receive no fishing pressure that it could have been any better. The lake in producing like I have never seen before, every day is special and every day I get to see big smiles in my boat from my customers!

Our numbers are extremely high averaging 40 plus fish a day, having several bass in the 5 to 7 pound range and using just about any bait you can think of and catching fish! It didn’t matter if you were fishing a jig or a worm or an old timey chug bug the fish were hitting it.  It was a blessed week of bass fishing for all my customers this past week.

We mainly fished Tight-Line football jigs, Missile Bait D-Bombs and Tomahawk worms, Spooks and swim baits. All produced fish, many fish and big fish. You can see the bass stacked up on your Lowrance technology structure scan, it kind of like looking out over farm land where the animals are everywhere you look as the bass stack up together in the lake. This past week was just a gift from heaven for the bass fisherman!

Fish Lake Guntersville Guide Service

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ABOUT THIS LAKE

In a year-round fishing heaven, local anglers and tournament pros hit the water in search of largemouth bass. Dark jigs cast on points and along bluff walls at night are good for smallmouth bass in the lower reservoir. Spotted bass – we call them “spots” – also are common; they’re found primarily near the main channel. Striped bass, hybrids and white bass make spring runs and can be caught schooling during the summer.

At 67,100 acres, Wheeler Lake is the largest of three stair-stepping reservoirs along the Tennessee River that were created by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s. Situated in north central Alabama, Wheeler Lake stretches 60 miles from Guntersville Dam to Wheeler Dam, with the City of Decatur at about the midway point.

The terrain and structure of Wheeler is diverse. The upper end of the reservoir is a run-of-the-river reservoir as it goes past Huntsville and begins spreading out near Decatur. In the middle section, stump flats, weed beds, and creek channels are popular locations for lunker bass. The lower end has many steep banks and long points.

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