At the end of the 18th century, a small area of Marshall County provided the location for John Gunter's general store and ferry at what would be known as Gunter's Landing. The town of Guntersville was also founded and named after John, who passed away in 1835. Just over 100 years later, further west along the Tennessee River, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal secured the building of the Guntersville Dam and hydroelectric plant, helping form in 1939 what we know today as Lake Guntersville - Alabama's largest lake.

The Dam's impact on the surrounding area for agriculture and industry transformed the area's ecomony, bringing new settlers to the lakeside towns and with them the want for recreation and relaxation. Bass fishing became a popular pastime and today the fishing from the settlements around Lake Guntersville is known to be some of best in the country.

As a result, Bassmaster® has regularly staged competition on the lake - a total of 26 times throughout the sport's history, including Elite Series™ events and the 2014 and 2020 Bassmaster® Classics. The town of Scottsboro becomes the focal point for much of the event, located roughly half way between the lake's extremes of Guntersville and Bridgeport.

In recent events, the extreme ends of Lake Guntersville have provided a wide selection of locations for winning catches, with last year's top anglers sticking to the northern reaches and defying the trend of previous years, where the southern creeks and inlets provided good hauls of bass. A factor in May 2021 that skewed the success up north was the abundance of eel grass, which allowed anglers to hang in vast fields waiting for big bass to leap out and take the bait.

The waters in-game are also focused around Scottsboro and a number of hotspots lie in and around the inlets of Dry Creek and along the western shore south of Veterans Drive. See how well you get on in Alabama during this year's Online event.