Sorry, that 30 minute edit deal got me as I was trying to edit my post. Anyway my buddy climbed over in the boat with me and the family went and docked his. I only had three rods in the boat and no tackle bag, as I was just kinda goofing off. I was throwning a Red Flame spinnerbait and my buddy was throwing a jig. I had already caught a dink Kentucky when he climbed in. We proceeded down the bank and I slung my spinnerbait a long cast and landed within a few inches of a rock ledge. I turned the handle a couple of times and felt a little tick and set the hook, I told my buddy aka Netboy it was a little one until it jumped and I totally changed my mind about the being small part. We brought the bass to net and it almost pulled my arm out of socket. It was as long as my Golden Rule, 22 1/2 inches and weighed a little over 5lb's. My first brown bass this year over 5. I fished only in the morning hours from here out, as night fishing and a family vacation wasn't going to work to well. Tuesday morning same stretch of bank I loose not one but two pigs on topwater. The first was every bit as big as the one the night before and the other in the 21 to 21 1/2 inch range. They hit on long casts and I brought both fish to the edge of the boat with net in hand only to loose them both. In neither case do I feel it was my fault like it normally is, they just came unbuttoned. The second fish was fould hooked in the top of the head and you know how hard it is to land one of those size with one hook in it's head. Anyway ened up with a few decent Spots and that what could have been feeling in my gut. Wednesday morning again went to same stretch of bank and it wasn't happening and I spent way to much time trying to make it happen. Thursday morning I went to find new water. Man did I find it fairly close to the confluence of Illwell and Wolf river. I seen a bass busting on top so I went over to investigate. I'm catching bass over 75 foot of water in the jumps on walking baits and I destroyed them for a couple of hours. I had over a double limit of GOOD Kentuckies, 16 to 17 footballs. Smallmouth were a 20 inch, an 18, 17 3/4, a 16 and a 15 inch. Lost another one on a jigging spoon about 20 inches and another about 18 inches on topwater. I also had a 17 and a 14 1/2 inch largemouth also. I hooked something large on a jigging spoonin in 50 foot of water that I would pull up and it would strip drag back. It finally got loose but my guess is it was a big walleye as it would stay down fight in a tight pattern and shake it's head often. We had a good rain down there Thursday afternoon and night. This scattered those threadfin shad balls out quite a bit so the Friday morning bite slowed considerable. However I did manage to catch seven good fish. I had a 19, 18, a one a little over 16 inches for smallmouth. I had a 15 inch largemouth and three football Spots in the 16 to 17 inch range. I never fished past 10.00 a.m. on any morning and if you added up all my time for the week it would add up to about one good solid day of fishing. I LOVE DALE, it's going to make me forget all about Cumberland. WOW what a fishery and those smalljaws down there are MEAN. I'm considering quitting my job, leaving my wife and moving down there.Originally Posted by Chubminnow
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