nolin 6/27 6/28

Fished Nolin Saturday morning, didn't do very well, water was muddy at wax but we put in at the private ramp on long fall and the water looked good, just a slight stain. Fished top water, c-rigs, spinnerbaits and a 4 in. worm. Only caught two from about 6:30 am to 12:00. Pulled the boat out and went to relax for a few hours, eat and then go back out. at 7:00 PM we drove over to the state ramp. The water had come up quite a bit from earlier in the day. Fished ledges and caught MANY bass all on the 4 in. worm. The bite held out pretty well for us until it got really good and dark then tapered off quickly. We pulled the boat out at around 2:00 AM. Sunday, we didn't fish in the morning, didn't want to fight the boat traffic. Put in at Dog creek. Cought 2 on a spinnerbait, saw a couple caught on texas rigged worms, but once it got dark we couldn't get a bite! WE called it a night at around 12:00 am. ANyway, we had fun. I'll spend the next week getting ready for my honeymoon on Dale! Wish me luck!
Dave

Nice report Dave, sounds fun.

Good luck next week with the wedding and the honeymoon. I bet there won't be a lot of night fishing there. LOL

Danny

More like night putting! I am really excited about being on Dale for a whole week. I'm not sure how well I'll do fishing, but I know I'll do great at relaxing. I'm renting a houseboat out of cedar hill. Anyone know the area? Will I have to go very far to get on some fish. My fiance is also really getting into the fishing thing this year and it is great. Now I just have to get her to fish some tourneys with me!

Water was very muddy from Wax and on up river. Bite was tough as well. Caught 6 fish, 3 keepers on c-rig fishing ledges. No top water bite. Caught a 2 lb walleye on crankbait.Caught the bigger fish on 8 and 10 inch worms. Found a great ledge just tough fishing it with the boat traffic. Caught all my fish from 11-2 in the afternoon. One 4lber, the other two keepers were right around 3lbs. The fish were definately stacked up on this ledge, about 8ft then dropped to 17 ft. Trying to teach myself this ledge fishing concept, and it worked out pretty good.... Planned on fishing all weekend, but after Sat. morning my boat decided to give me some problems so off to the shop it goes and I am stuck without a boat the rest of the weekend. But did have a nice time relaxing.


Any Barren reports??

Eric

My guess is that you will be traveling out of Burkesville on 61, which changes to Hwy 53 after you cross the TN line. You will turn left off that road to go to Cedar Hill but if you stay on that road a couple miles past your turn off to Cedar Hill, the One Stop will be on your left. This is the home of Punisher Jigs and Stephen Headrick. Stephen is a nice guy that has helped me out a lot in learning Dale Hollow even though I have never taken a guide trip with him. He has even went has far as marking my map for some good locations that produced really good fish. You may look him up for some information.

Tight Lines

Eric, I had some boat problems while at Nolin this weekend as well that put a dent in my fishing time (actually trolling motor problem). With all the influx of water (it came up over 7 feet in 4 days) and floating debris, holiday boat traffic, etc. I said to hell with it and did a lot of relaxing as well. Caught only a few short fish on c-rigs and crawfish crankbait in 10-15 feet on ledges/drops in the creeks. Didn't catch any fish on the main lake, but I didn't fish it much either.

Don't want your spot, but was the ledge you were fishing on the main lake or up above Wax in the river or in a creek?

Thanks.

Thanks again elnut. Fish or no fish, I can't wait!

EJ whats wrong with the boat, where did you take it?

Fished Nolin both Sunday and Monday as well. I agree fishing was tough. Put in at Dog Creek. The fish I caught were in Long Fall. Caught some on topwater Sunday late in the day and Monday the few I caught were on a black/blue jig using 2 plastic trailers on the wide gap hook. First time I've done that one but it slowed the fall of the bait and seemed to work. Only had 1 keeper out of the bunch.

Hey old man, I was around your place Sunday, all I had with me was your cell number. I tried to fish for several hours and gave up went home both the boat and I wet top to bottom. At one time I stopped at the mouth of dog creek I counted 47 boats at one time. Man it was crazy on the water. I have never seen it that bad.

Well it was running fine Saturday morning. Docked up, went up for lunch and came down and she wouldn't go over 2500 rpm's, not past 10mph. The it started sputterring. So either I need some new spark plugs or clean the carberator. I am no boat mechanic but will try to start out simple and cheap. Can you put carberator cleaner in a boat?

The ledge I was fishing was off between ponderosa and rock creek, not the main lake.

That sounds like it could be electrical to me.

I had something VERY similar happen once. I forget the terminoligy, but there's an electrical component that kicks in somewhere around 2,000 rpm. (I think it's called the stator). It basically doubles your spark to kick you on into the higher RPM power band. If this component goes out, you top out somewhere around 2,000 rpms with a load. If there's no load on the prop, it will go ahead and rev up to 6,000