Quote Originally Posted by trex1 View Post
No. I'm not joking. Check out the late fall tournaments and early spring tournaments. 20/25 lb sacks. All smallmouth.
If anything Dale needs to get a handle on their largemouth population.
Cumberland has as many good smallmouth as Dale. It's just a bigger lake and a little harder to find em.
If you can't fish Cumberland then I guess you should stay on Dale.
My 2 cents. All joking aside!!!!!
Dude I'd stack my creditentials against your's anyday on C-land that's my lake. I'm no expert but I've caught a ton of brown fish from the Big C. If you truely think the slot hasn't made Dale take off like a rocket with big smalljaws call Bob Coan, Steven Headrick, Jonathan Davis, Ralph Sandafer and any other well known guide I can think of on the Holler and see what they tell ya. I'm also pretty sure them ole boys might know what they are takin bout to, lol. Also at Cumberland's present level Dale and C-land are almost the exact same size when the Holler is at summer pool. Too many smallmouth are hitting the skillet out of Cumberland every year from day in and day out guide pressure froma hundred plus guides per day. Smallmouth are particuallry suspect to live bait, therefore NUMBERS of 18 to 20 inch fish meet the knife every day down there. That being the majority size slot for that lake and that I'll almost guareentee would have to be returned to the lake if the slot was present in the fashion it is on Dale. Go to cleaning station at midday at any marina you want and watch'em get cut by the bunches. I'm not dogging the guides as their clients are allowed to keep any legal fish they want to takeand beleive me most of them do. I don't fish Dale much because it gets in my wallet to hard to go that far, heck Cumberland is eating me alive. This is my two cents, Have a nice day, Mark Hall.