Don't know much about dale hollow, only fished it a few times and with very little luck. I do however have the biggest smallmouth I have caught (7.3lbs) come from there. Hope to do some FNF there this winter. I think it would improve the quality of the fish, already catch a lot of smallmouth on laurel in the 17 inch range. Would like to see the largemouth improve though. It may take a few years to get them there. They seem to be down and after they released the 60,000 in there last year may take a little longer for them to get to size.