Dale Hollow Last Weekend

[jimsharley]

Sorry to chime in so late, but maybe this can be helpful for your next trip!? I have fished DH for almost 20 yrs now and have a home here. My experience with fishing in June is night fishing, night fishing, night fishing! While I have fished it during the day @ this time of year, success has not been very good. An occasional brown, but nothing consistent. My best success is fishing @ night with short arm, single blade, spinnerbaits, tipped with a josh pork rind, slow rolled over main lake points. If you can find grass, you will find success there as well and can also pick up some large mouths. Colors I have the most success with are black with any combination a few stands in red, chartruese, or purple. I coordinate with the pork rind. There are times that a chartruese, brown or white one is the trick. I also have success with a hair jig in brown, black, watermelon/olive, purple, chartruese or white. But predominatly the brown, black and watermelon. I trim the hair to about a 1/4 inch from the hook and dress it with a josh rind. I also have found, for me, that I have better hook up rate when I also trim some of the rind off on the underside of the rind @ the preset opening for the hook. Again, I fish the jig typically on the main lake points. Hope this is helpful!

[mhall]

Sorry to chime in so late, but maybe this can be helpful for your next trip!? I have fished DH for almost 20 yrs now and have a home here. My experience with fishing in June is night fishing, night fishing, night fishing! While I have fished it during the day @ this time of year, success has not been very good. An occasional brown, but nothing consistent. My best success is fishing @ night with short arm, single blade, spinnerbaits, tipped with a josh pork rind, slow rolled over main lake points. If you can find grass, you will find success there as well and can also pick up some large mouths. Colors I have the most success with are black with any combination a few stands in red, chartruese, or purple. I coordinate with the pork rind. There are times that a chartruese, brown or white one is the trick. I also have success with a hair jig in brown, black, watermelon/olive, purple, chartruese or white. But predominatly the brown, black and watermelon. I trim the hair to about a 1/4 inch from the hook and dress it with a josh rind. I also have found, for me, that I have better hook up rate when I also trim some of the rind off on the underside of the rind @ the preset opening for the hook. Again, I fish the jig typically on the main lake points. Hope this is helpful!

Very nice post, this is what makes this site great.

[bigwormy]

agreed

[hooksetter]

On the pork rind, what # do you use, I always used the 101. Do you use the 11 or something different altogether. What size jig head?

[jimsharley]

Thanks for the kind comments guys! I appreciate it! And, you are exactly right, this is a great site with dedicated fisherman, with a wealth of helpful info! Bragger, I prefer the #11 and use them on both the spinners and jigs. As far as size, I will use a 3/8 oz jig and spinner predominatley. However, if I'm fishing a point that has a deeper drop, I will use a 1/2 oz jig or spinner.

[Gregory]

Is it fall yet, them smallie really turn on in the cold weather. Every weekend this past winter we avg. 15 good smallies every trip to Dale. Hope it only gets better this year.

[thebassman30]

I'm a regular at the DH and if you put 15 a day in the boat....that's solid. We usually do more than one day trips though so this would make more sense. Jim Sharley ~ your post is dead on my friend.
Mark

[BPenrod]

I hope this applies to the second week in July also. Were going down this Sun. thru Wed. with the kids and grandkids. Staying at East Point Marina. I'll be towing a tube during the day and fishing at night. Thanks for the info Jim Sharley it will be very helpful and greatly appreciated.
Brian Penrod