Quote Originally Posted by KR View Post
GEE Pro V LE could you please take me and show me how to catch them since my fish catching skills are so bad. You are a jerk my friend, and absolute JERK!!!! JByrd made an awesome point from the viewpoint of Dale Hollow and Laurel.
Excellent Point??

Doubtful.........Dale and Cumberland are completely DIFFERENT lakes.......How many times has Dale been dropped oh say 60 ft to keep from flooding the down stream communities. I can tell you NONE since I've been fishing it. Cumberland.......well practically every year over the past few. I will tell you this though.....I think there have been some serious SPAWN classes at cumberland lately, and as soon as the lake comes up a little all that brush along the bank is going to make for some FANTASTIC fishing. BUT you guys will of course say it is all due to the striper kills this year and last year.

Dale has some SERIOUS predators besides spots, smallies and largemouth. How about Lakers, Rainbows, Muskies, Walleye,etc, etc Those take a BIG bite out of the alewife and shad population.

And........since the introduction of alewives into Dale, I believe there have not been too many "trophy" smallies caught from there.......trophy meaning over 8lbs.

Like I said in the previous thread..........I hope you guys get really good at alewife fishing, because without the stripers, that is ALL you're going to catch.........

Later,

Geo