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The new leadership team at the Greater Gardner Chamber of Commerce is ready to begin a new chapter for the organization that has been representing businesses across the region for nearly a century.

NHRA legend came up just short in quest to be first to blast a battery-powered dragster down the quarter-mile at 200 mph. 

Friday Alabama fishing report From Guntersville, Captain Mike Gerry reports it’s likely the unseasonably cold nights will have chased the bass off the beds for a few days, but they’ll be back in the shallows as soon as we get a sunny, warm afternoon or two. The fish move in and out of the shallow bays, flats and creeks at this time of spring, spawning on hard bottom near structure like stumps and logs, grass and boat docks. Gerry says soft plastics are usually the ticket for fish on the bed...

Friday fishing report for Alabama Updated 2:00 AM; At Lake Guntersville, Captain Mike Gerry reports the spring bass bite is on, and should continue despite the chilly nights forecast for the coming week. He said most bass have moved to water less than 10 feet deep, where water temperature is in the high 60′s and low 70′s in the afternoons, and many fish are spawning or have spawned. This means searching out hard-bottom areas with grass, blowdowns, stumps or boat docks likely will produce ...

Friday fishing report for Alabama Updated Apr 02, 2021; Lewis Smith Lake won’t be the place to fish for the next week or so, but you still may want to visit the spillway area to see something that rarely occurs—if the water rises as expected, it may pour out the overflow canyon on the west side of the dam for the first time in many years. Overflow starts at 522.0 feet elevation, and the forecast was for 521.7 feet Thursday night. If this happens, the water from the lake takes a long, circu...

Friday fishing report for Alabama Updated Mar 12, 2021; From Weiss Lake, Mark Collins reports bass fishing has turned on in the past week, with lots of fish moving to the shallows in pre-spawn mode and ready to bite. Shallow-running crankbaits and spinnerbaits are the best bet, he said. For crappies, in which he specializes, best action is at 7 to 10 feet long-line trolling Jiffy Jigs. Water temperature is in the low 50′s but rising quickly in the shallows, and water level is about 2 feet be...

Alabama Friday fishing report Longer days, warmer afternoons and an end to freezing nights means the largemouth bass spawn is rapidly approaching across all of Alabama, and probably already underway in lakes in the southern counties. Largemouths typically spawn on firm bottom around stumps, blowdowns, docks, seawalls and scattered weeds—any sort of cover where the baby fish can find at least some cover from the panfish that will move in and try to eat them when they’re a few days old. McDon...

Friday fishing report for Alabama Updated Feb 19, 2021; Brutally cold weather all but shut down fishing across the northern half of the state this past week, but a forecast for much warmer days and nights ahead should finally turn the corner in what has been a long, slow winter for bass anglers. Captain Mike Gerry reports from Guntersville that the nights in the teens pushed bass out of pre-spawn mode and into deep ditches and creek beds, where his anglers caught a few dragging Carolina rigged...

Friday fishing report Captain Mike Gerry says Lake Guntersville is producing typical late-winter fishing due to the 45-degree water, with the bite slow and scattered on largemouths. However, he said that the fish that do bite are large fish. “We’re mostly throwing reaction baits, Picasso spinners and bladed jigs, Spro rattlebaits and Little John crankbaits and also Tightline Swimjigs,” said Gerry. “It’s a lot of casting between strikes but anglers who work at it and stick with it will...

More tricks with rattlebaits for bass Updated Jan 24, 2021; Posted Jan 24, 2021 Lipless crankbaits like the Rat-L-Trap can be effective for catching bass during cold snaps like the one Alabama is currently enduring. Facebook Share Rat-L-Trap has announced their annual Rat-L-Trap Tournament at Lake Guntersville for Feb. 21 this year, and for at least that day hundreds of bass anglers will tie on the well-known lipless lure that pretty much created the “rattlebait” genre and have at the lar...