Guntersville back to normal after glory years

Submitted / Dept. of Natural Resources

Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries biologists Keith Floyd, left, and Phil Ekema drag a minnow seine across one of 11 areas that were sampled recently at Lake Guntersville.

Bass anglers who fished Lake Guntersville in the first half of the current decade enjoyed possibly the best bass fishing in the nation with phenomenal stringers anchored by 8- to 10- to 12-pound whoppers.

When those 30-pound-plus stringers of five bass started to wane the past couple of years, lake property owners and bass anglers who regularly fish the lake, affectionately known as the “Big G,” began to fret and then became downright afraid there was something significantly askew in the lake.