Went to Dale Hollow 4/3 rained entire trip six hours of driving in the rain some times hard rain. Woke up Friday raining and lightning the lightning let up around 10:00 but two old men waited until about 2:00 went out on the lake. We left Cedar Hill (nice place) fished the back of Long Branch (liked the name) water running in a little off color Water Temp about 53. Fished spinner bait and yellow hoss fly nothing. Left there went across the lake and fished some of the main lake points. Caught about 2.5 smallie on yellow hoss fly. Fished some more cuts and gave up.

Day two met Bob Coan at 7:00 cloudy and cool no rain. We went toward the back of some of the arms looking for run off and off color water, temps around 53 to 56. I was slow rolling a ½ oz .Hook Some Bass spinner bait in Blue glimmer this is spinner bait Dave Stewart put me on, you can slow roll this bait and it comes with small blades and it runs true. So thanks to two great guides I caught a 2, 4.1, 5.1 and a 5.4 all smallmouth. The 5.1 and the 5.4 are on Bob Coan’s web site www.bobcoanfishingguide.com under fishing photos at the top. Look for Steve McGahey.


Day three cloudy and cool fished about an hour landed about a 5 pound smallie (no scale to weight it on), then the sun came out and we struggled.

Day four sunny whole lake off color caught two smallies and one spot all fish 2 pounds or less. We were fighting debris for the last two days hard to cast a bait and get it back with out a leave or some kind of trash on the bait. This is the first trip to Dale Hollow other than the float and fly a year ago but it won’t be the last.

Bob Coan is a great guide and fun to spend the day in the boat. I would highly recommend him.

Elnut Don’t even reprimand me for being a fair weather fisherman I’m getting to old and enjoy creature comfort. I know you would have loved the rain Friday and they would have to pry you off the water.

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