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Lake Martin

2025-10-14•Matt Herren
79°F
Stained (3-4 ft)

🌤️Conditions

Two feet below full pool

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As usual, small bass are easy to catch. They're biting a variety of baits on the ends of points and already chasing baitfish into the creeks in some areas. A Dirty Jigs Scott Canterbury Pro Buzzbait with a toad body has been producing a lot of fish, along with ChatterBaits and Whopper Ploppers. Shaky heads will often produce a 50- to 60-bass day, but your best five might not weigh 6 pounds. The water is still a bit warm for crappie fishing, but a few are being caught around the bridge pilings on minnows. Crappie are huddled up around deep brushpiles (15-20 feet) as well, but they've been hard to catch.

🎣Catch Report

Steve Ingram and Beau McCrary won the Wind Creek Bass Trail Tournament on Oct. 11 with 13.10 pounds.

🎣Recommended Lures

Dirty Jigs Scott Canterbury Pro BuzzbaitWhopper PlopperZ-Man ChatterBait

Lake Guntersville

2025-10-14•Bryan Brasher
72°F
Clear (6-8 ft)

🌤️Conditions

A foot below full pool with plenty of grass still left for frogging and punching

📝Report

The biggest problem for bass anglers lately has been tournament pressure. With at least two major bass tournaments crowding the lake last week, every grass mat had hundreds of frog trails through it, and the crankbait bite out away from the mats has been super-slow. The usual mass collection of bass boats can be found around the bridges, causeways and rock bluffs, as anglers try to spot fish with forward-facing sonar and tempt them to bite with a wide selection of jighead minnow imitations. Crappie fishing is also slow around the deeper docks and mid-depth brushpiles. Just give it another couple of weeks, and all of the same baits will work in all of those predictable places.

🎣Catch Report

Tucker Smith picked up a whopping payday of $500,000 with 71 pounds, 6 ounces in last week's Ultimate Angler Championship.

🎣Recommended Lures

Bass: Hollow-bodied frog (black or White), umbrella rig, Bandit 300 Series crank baitsCrappie: Hair jigs (hot pink, chartreuse and chartreuse/white)

Logan Martin Lake

2025-10-14•Bryan Brasher
73°F
Stained (3-4 ft)

🌤️Conditions

For the time of year, the lake is much more full than usual. Down less than a foot.

📝Report

Bass fishing for numbers has been excellent with all of the usual baits around boat docks. Roboworms in the bold bluegill and hologram dawn colors have been producing lots of bites fished on a shaky head, along with the Z-Man Ned Rig fitted with the Finesse TRD with coppertreuse. Crappie fishing is slowly getting better, as fish move toward the docks. Hot pink Jiffy jigs are producing a few.

🎣Catch Report

None.

🎣Recommended Lures

Shaky head with Roboworms (bold bluegill, hologram dawn)Z-Man Ned Rigs (Finesse TRD in coppertreuse)

Lake Purdy

2025-10-14•Bryan Brasher
75°F
Clear (6-8 ft)

🌤️Conditions

Still several feet below full pool, as crews continue to work on Lake Purdy Dam.

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Numbers of bass are still easy to come by, as spots engulf shaky rigs, Ned rigs and drop-shot rigs around rock piles and long, sloping points. A few bass are already chasing bait in shallow water, and those can be caught on spinnerbaits, ChatterBaits, Zoom Super Flukes and swimbaits. If you want a lot of bites, use the smaller baits. For big bass, try to mimic the larger bait fish. Things have been quiet on the crappie and bluegill fronts, but a few channel catfish are biting chicken livers off the edge of humps like Granny Island on the lower end of the lake.

🎣Catch Report

None

🎣Recommended Lures

For bass: 3/8-ounce War Eagle Spinnerbait (white), Z-Man ChatterBait (white), Zoom Super Fluke (albino), Megabits Magdraft Swimsuit (ghost)

Warrior River

2025-10-14•Bryan Brasher
74°F
Stained (3-4 ft)

🌤️Conditions

Lake is full, with water a little dingy in the pockets.

📝Report

Everything seems to be in transition mode - and it's given them all lock jaw. A few bass can be caught on a frog around the abundant bank grass, and on jigs around the rock bluffs. But numbers are hard to come by. Crappie are starting to bunch up around deeper brushpiles, but most don't seem interested in feeding. Catfish could be caught just about anywhere, on just about anything a month ago. But they also seem to sluggish now due to the fall transmission.

🎣Catch Report

None.

🎣Recommended Lures

Bass: Hollow-bodied frog (black, white); 3/8-ounce jig (black/blue, green pumpkin)Crappie: Hair jigs (pink, powder blue, red/white/chartreuseCatfish: Jug fishermen are still catching an occasional fish on chicken liver and hot dog slices.
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