Dale Saturday vs. Friday

Friday....we caught 9 mostly FNF and jerkbait on wind blown banks. Sallies 4.2, 3.9 and a 3.8....several nice spots in the 2-3lb range and one rogue Larry that looked like it was raised by smallies. I felt like this was average for us and we should surely do better the next day. We ended up focusing more main lake points with clear water.

Saturday...a couple nice sallies (one 5.2) before 8:30 a.m. and then the front came through....the fish seem to really shut down behind the front. They didn't want to leave thier hideouts...man we need some cold weather to push the baitfish deeper. I thought this was a really rough day.

Some friends of mine ran into the legendary Bill Nichols who had only caught one which made me feel a lot better. He's a fishing machine...300 days a year at age 77. Not with my old lady! I'm happy to get 4-5 a month and a couple weekends.

I'm out of FNF jigs and would love to try something new like a rainbow trout color...but I got to have a hook like the Punisher Jigs....please email me if you got something sweet.

Mark - [email][email protected][/email]

I have been FnF fishing Dale Hollow for the last 4 years and have fished numerous times with Bob Coan. I have been producing my own jigs for the last two years and use a red Matzuo 9064 Sickle bend hook size 2. I mold my jigs using a Do-it minnow head mold size 1/32 and 1/16. Since I started using this hook I have rarely lost any smallies. You can purchase the mold and hooks from Barlows at [url]www.barlowstackle.com[/url] or call 1-800-707-0208. The punisher jig used to use Daiichi hooks but I believe they have since switched to Mustad premium jig hooks but not sure. All of these hooks are very good hooks, but I really like the way the Matzuo hook has performed.