Guntersville has become so popular for the grass bite that most anglers run right by the many boat houses stacked on the shore for miles up and down the river. While the greater percentage of anglers ignores the boat houses, I believe it is a pattern that can win tournaments and create some fun for a day of fishing. The key is finding boat houses that hold the bass; well this is no different than finding the grass humps or grass lines that hold fish.

Not all boat houses are created equal, nor are grass lines and humps. Something makes them different, and there is a key to why bass hang around one boat house over another. I think the choices are easier to make than fishing grass. The first thing I look for is water at the end of the boat house to be somewhere close to 8 feet deep. , this tells you that there is sufficient depth for the bass to move deep if need be, and this gives them safety in case they are spooked some way. Next is the wood, the newly built boat house generally does not have enough naturally food around it and hence the bait fish to not stay around the cleaner new wood. Well if the bait fish are not hanging around you can bet the bass are not there either.

The next factor and one of the most important factors of all the elements surrounding boat houses is the relationship to some of the original creeks or roadbeds. A boat house that has close proximity to a creek and or an old road bed always holds bass. The proximity to these natural elements allows the bass to migrate from the creek or roadbed to the shade of the boat house. This naturally migration is a well known path that bass move in and out of every day to feed and if the boat house is nearby it’s just a plus for them to move on and off these boat houses.

Boat houses create cover, the bass can hide from the sun and they generally have bait around them, how much more convincing do you need to make boat houses part of your fishing patterns?

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Captain Mike Gerry