Need help !!Dale hollow Friday

Me and a business friend will be going to dale this Friday after big mouths and spots can anyone help with a pattern or lure selection not wanting your spot just general help locating some decent fish Thanks

[quote=charger496;303376]Me and a business friend will be going to dale this Friday after big mouths and spots can anyone help with a pattern or lure selection not wanting your spot just general help locating some decent fish Thanks[/quote]

Charger496: Good luck to you if that is what you are targeting and wanting a response. :p I have a tourney there saturday and looking for the same thing. I posted two-three days ago with 75 people viewing it and got a goose egg as far as any help or response for this lake.:( Hope you find a few to get your string streched with your friend...283

The only suggestion that I can make is ledges, humps and deep grass beds with jigs and soft plastics for Greenfish and find some laydowns in deeper water or brush piles under water and you may find a Spot or two. They are not pulling any current thru the dam and this late in the year the oxygen level in the water will be at its lowest so it will be SLOOOOWW fishing. Call the One Stop in Celina and ask for Steve Headrick for he could help you a bit as well. Send me a private message with your cell phone and I will call you with my map to help with a few of these type spots around wherever you are launching. Good Luck

[quote=elnutsmalljaws;303404]The only suggestion that I can make is ledges, humps and deep grass beds with jigs and soft plastics for Greenfish and find some laydowns in deeper water or brush piles under water and you may find a Spot or two. They are not pulling any current thru the dam and this late in the year the oxygen level in the water will be at its lowest so it will be SLOOOOWW fishing. Call the One Stop in Celina and ask for Steve Headrick for he could help you a bit as well. Send me a private message with your cell phone and I will call you with my map to help with a few of these type spots around wherever you are launching. Good Luck[/quote]

elnutsmalljaws: Thank you so much for the response and the help. I have a feeling it is going to be tough being during the day out there. Wish it was for the smallies only and at night, would feel better about it and probably find a few of them on the main lake points and pockets. One good thing is they backed it up from starting at 6:30 to 5 :a.m. till 12;30 should help some for the early bite.:) We are launching out of star point marina. I sent you a e-mail with my cell number. Thanks again...I appreciate it...283

fish in the 18-22 ft range on points with grass on em...fish jigs

[quote=bereabasser;303426]fish in the 18-22 ft range on points with grass on em...fish jigs[/quote]

Hey *THANKS* basser for the tip and response. I appreciate it alot on the depth especially:D ..at least now I have a starting point...283

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;303404]The only suggestion that I can make is ledges, humps and deep grass beds with jigs and soft plastics for Greenfish and find some laydowns in deeper water or brush piles under water and you may find a Spot or two. They are not pulling any current thru the dam and this late in the year the oxygen level in the water will be at its lowest so it will be SLOOOOWW fishing. Call the One Stop in Celina and ask for Steve Headrick for he could help you a bit as well. Send me a private message with your cell phone and I will call you with my map to help with a few of these type spots around wherever you are launching. Good Luck[/QUOTE]

Elnuts;
Where did you get your info that they were not pulling any water from the Holler?????????? Man, they are pullin it HARD, just look at the TVA DAM release schedules. I have basically lived on the lake this summer on my houseboat, and we had to push the boat off the bank every 2 days or get stuck on the bank. The Corp is using the water from Dale to keep the Cumberland flowing, as they can't release any more from Cumberland Lake.

[QUOTE=phoenix;303514]Elnuts;
Where did you get your info that they were not pulling any water from the Holler?????????? Man, they are pullin it HARD, just look at the TVA DAM release schedules. I have basically lived on the lake this summer on my houseboat, and we had to push the boat off the bank every 2 days or get stuck on the bank. The Corp is using the water from Dale to keep the Cumberland flowing, as they can't release any more from Cumberland Lake.[/QUOTE]

When I posted what I said, I forgot they were pulling it 2 feet per week for several weeks to generate electricity since Cumberland was not producing. I was thinking of the lack of rain and not about the electricity. Headrick had told me they were going to drop it to make electricity a month ago but just slipped my mind. You are right in that it is dropping, which should make the ledge fishing all that much better. One thing is for sure, the Corp better get some markers up if they drain it too much with all the humps and underwater islands at Dale, people will be dropping lower units left and right. Not at all like Cumberland where they can take 40 feet out of it and have very little effect on the boat travel, 15-20 feet out of Dale and you will see boats running up on land all over the place.

The one good thing about it, most of the fair weather boaters will be gone when it gets that low. Most fishin guys I know do fairly well navigating low water.