Where would you go on derby weekend?

[fishinfreak]

Derby weekend was always the weekend we would traditionally take a trip to Dale Hollow for smallmouth. We used Derby as the indicator each year and always did really well. The fish were always typically coming into post-spawn time and were up pretty shallow and easy to catch. I'm going to try again this year to make that trip.

I made my first trip to dale hollow last September for a camping trip. I did get out for a hour or so to fish. I boated on small smallmouth and lost one pushing 3lbs and had another pushing 4 roll over my popper. How do you target the smallies that time of year?