Fishing dale the week of thanksgiving.

I will be fishing dale hollow a couple days on the week of thanksgiving. Just wondering if anyone has been lately. Also what the water conditions are currently. Also if the fnf is working yet down there.
Thanks
Nick

I was down there this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday fishin' was decent, Saturday fishin' was a little better than decent and actually had a chance of being good if we didn't have some of the break off's we had, etc...Sunday fishin' was pathetic, absolutely tough, at least for Dale it was tough fishin' anyway. Not all of the fish caught were caught off the bottom but most of them were. Water temperature was 59 degree's in the mornings. Water level is higher than usual for this time of year and from what I can tell it may still be that way by the time you get there on Thanksgiving. I'm not sure about the fly, I don't fish it and didn't see anyone that was. I suspect the water temperature needs to come down a bit still for the fly but i don't know this for sure.

[QUOTE=ky.jonboatfisher;389829]I will be fishing dale hollow a couple days on the week of thanksgiving. Just wondering if anyone has been lately. Also what the water conditions are currently. Also if the fnf is working yet down there.
Thanks
Nick[/QUOTE]

I went down Fri through Fri.

Live bait....LIVE bait....LIVE bait. 15 3-4.5lbers

Go see Steven Headrick at the one stop. He'll help if the pattern changes.

Sunday was as tough as it gets, I watched the guides who live bait fish. On fri-sat, with good results, Sunday 3 different guide boats had long hard trips. IM still fishing about everyday w/livebait, an have very few decent fish in the boat recently. Catching bank runners over deep water an not seeing any heavy fish,,,,,,,,they have me talking to my self, an making me fish even harder to prove it ant so. Its got to change soon.

Water still in the upper 50 to low 60 range. Probably not ready for the fly to be in full force yet. With the cold temps that they are forecasting mid next week, the turnover should start which will make the water dirty and another knock against the fly. Most likely live bait and jig bite will be the ticket. I will say that during the turnover some times the fish will mover EXTREMELY shallow looking for some oxygenated water that will happen with the boat wash and waves on the surface to a couple of feet below. Don't be afraid to fish SHALLOW if nothing happening deeper. Not saying you can't catch them on the fly but as Dave Stewart taught me well, better to fish where 90% of the fish are versus 10% of the fish and I take it a step farther and would rather use a technique that will catch 90% of the fish versus 10% and I think the fly is still in the 10% category for now, but it won't be long - we just need cold weather and the turnover to get done.

[QUOTE=mybentrod;389968]I went down Fri through Fri.

Live bait....LIVE bait....LIVE bait. 15 3-4.5lbers

Go see Steven Headrick at the one stop. He'll help if the pattern changes.[/QUOTE]

Dad went over to Laurel today and caught a 5 3/4lb and a 5 1/4lb smallies on those wild suckers we been selling. Taken them down to Dale Hollow the weekend after Thanksgiving and hoping they'll rip them up like they usually do. I also caught a nice 15lb striper on a sucker this past weekend in Fishing Creek on Cumberland. Caught a couple other smaller ones but the big one came on 10 pound line and a bass spinnin outfit....about a 20 minute fight!!