07 September 2025
Lake Guntersville Fishing Report: Cool Temps and Feeding Frenzy for Bass, Crappie, and Bluegill
Lake Guntersville, Alabama Fishing Report - Daily
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Good morning folks, this is Artificial Lure bringing you the Lake Guntersville fishing report for Sunday, September 7th, 2025. It’s a cool and foggy morning out here—temperatures have been hanging in the upper 60s, touching 71° at sunrise, and a decent bit of humidity in the air, around 90%. Winds are light from the northeast, just about 1 to 2 mph, so it’s easy paddling and no wild boat ride today. Sunrise was at 6:18 AM, and you can expect the sun to slip behind the mountains at 7:11 tonight, giving us a solid stretch of daylight out on the water.
No tides to speak of on the lake, but fish activity is up, thanks in part to cooling temps signaling the end of summer. According to the Guntersville Daily Fishing Report, the bass bite is booming as autumn approaches, with crappie and bluegill still steady and predictable. Major feeding times today hover around 1:14 to 3:14 PM, with minor boosts right now between about 7:30 and 8:30 this morning—so keep those rods handy and be ready for a flurry of action in the next hour. This cooling trend and fog have the shad schooling tight, which always gets the largemouths fired up.
Recent catches have been impressive—anglers are reporting limits of 15 to 18 pounds in local tournaments, mostly chunky largemouth bass, but a few folks striking into solid crappie slabs and the occasional catfish. Spinnerbaits in white or chartreuse, shad-pattern squarebill crankbaits, and classic black or natural frogs are all catching fish according to both the Lake Guntersville, Alabama Daily Fishing Report and Cross Country Bank Angler’s late summer showdown.
Topwater action remains fantastic early, especially over grass mats and near boat docks. If you’re looking for that explosive bite, do what the local guides are doing and throw a hollow-body frog across thick hydrilla and milfoil—start at sunrise and stick with it until the sun gets high. Once it starts brightening, transition to punching baits like craws and creature baits rigged Texas-style into the heavy stuff, or skirted jigs for flipping the edges. Shad are thick in the creek mouths, so swimbaits and spinnerbaits in those areas have produced a lot of quality fish.
For crappie, the steady trick is still vertical jigging or using live minnows around bridge pylons and deeper brush piles. Bluegill are stacking up along deeper ledges and brush and will hit a red worm or cricket all day long.
Hot spots today: North Sauty and South Sauty creek mouths are producing, and Town Creek remains a September favorite. Mud Creek has also been turning up a mixed bag of bass and panfish—if you strike out with artificials, tip a live minnow or drop shot a small plastic.
If you’re wanting a real shot at a trophy, look for isolated clumps of grass off the main river ledge between Waterfront and Goose Pond—locals have been pulling some real monsters from those breaks.
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No tides to speak of on the lake, but fish activity is up, thanks in part to cooling temps signaling the end of summer. According to the Guntersville Daily Fishing Report, the bass bite is booming as autumn approaches, with crappie and bluegill still steady and predictable. Major feeding times today hover around 1:14 to 3:14 PM, with minor boosts right now between about 7:30 and 8:30 this morning—so keep those rods handy and be ready for a flurry of action in the next hour. This cooling trend and fog have the shad schooling tight, which always gets the largemouths fired up.
Recent catches have been impressive—anglers are reporting limits of 15 to 18 pounds in local tournaments, mostly chunky largemouth bass, but a few folks striking into solid crappie slabs and the occasional catfish. Spinnerbaits in white or chartreuse, shad-pattern squarebill crankbaits, and classic black or natural frogs are all catching fish according to both the Lake Guntersville, Alabama Daily Fishing Report and Cross Country Bank Angler’s late summer showdown.
Topwater action remains fantastic early, especially over grass mats and near boat docks. If you’re looking for that explosive bite, do what the local guides are doing and throw a hollow-body frog across thick hydrilla and milfoil—start at sunrise and stick with it until the sun gets high. Once it starts brightening, transition to punching baits like craws and creature baits rigged Texas-style into the heavy stuff, or skirted jigs for flipping the edges. Shad are thick in the creek mouths, so swimbaits and spinnerbaits in those areas have produced a lot of quality fish.
For crappie, the steady trick is still vertical jigging or using live minnows around bridge pylons and deeper brush piles. Bluegill are stacking up along deeper ledges and brush and will hit a red worm or cricket all day long.
Hot spots today: North Sauty and South Sauty creek mouths are producing, and Town Creek remains a September favorite. Mud Creek has also been turning up a mixed bag of bass and panfish—if you strike out with artificials, tip a live minnow or drop shot a small plastic.
If you’re wanting a real shot at a trophy, look for isolated clumps of grass off the main river ledge between Waterfront and Goose Pond—locals have been pulling some real monsters from those breaks.
That’s the scoop from your boots-on-the-bank local. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a bite. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai.
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