Maybe the others put me at the top of the list but I don't. I will share any information that I have learned thru my trials and tribulations. I assure you, there was many trips down to Dale and Cumberland from Frankfort Ky and back a couple of years ago and I got my butt handed to me on a silver platter. I know of one 3 day trip that I was skunked 1 day and only caught 5 small fish the other 2 days in total. I have certainly paid my dues to know what I know and will help all I can. One tip I will give is change your depth of your jig to suit the conditions. I start every time out at 10 foot deep, then if no action will move shallower if cloudy and overcast or deeper if bright and sunney. My scenario is 10' to 8' to 12' then to 14' if needed. Some times the fish will literally have their tails touching the bluffs or others they will be 10-15 feet off the bluff. Don't settle on one depth or one retrieve all day. Focus on what you are doing and when you get a strike try to imitate that very scenario again. Don't get the strike then wonder now what was I doing. My wife can't belive how intense and focused that I am on every cast. I may be looking around at the scenerary but I am thinkin of what my jig is doing and waiting for the pulldown. Some days it is the bluffs, some days it is the deep points, some it is the deep black shale points, some it is deep grass beds, learn whatever lake and try to get several different patterns then once you pattern them run that pattern all over the lake. Most likely you will scratch out a pretty good day. 1 - 5 pounder will make any day a really good one and for my money, Dale Hollow has more 5 pounders than any other lake around.

I will be fishing Dale on November 27, 28, 29, 30 and Dec 1, 2, and 3. The 27 and 28th I am fishing with someone but nobody on the 29th and 30th. My buddy is coming down to fish on the 1st and then we are fishing the Billy Westmoreland Classic on the 2nd and 3rd. I am staying at John Davis's cabin that will sleep 3 in beds and 1 more on the couch if anyone wants to come down on the 29th and 30th. My boat will fish 3 pretty comfortably in regards to FNF. I will being doing that the most but I will also try a new technique that I was told about that produces nothing but big fish. I have it on good authority, Steve Headrick, that it will catch the really big ones. The cabin is already paid for so if you want to chip in on it fine, if not, so be it for it is only money. I will put in at Holly Creek about 45 minutes before daylight and not come off the water until dark each day chasing the 12 pounder.