I just finished up 42 days on Dale Hollow

[gforcetrivers]

No gigantic fish this year..............lots over 4 and a few over 5.

Best days were mid December, with 17, and 16 on back to back days. 1 day on the Fly, the second day on tail spinners and swimbaits. Two different areas, but the BAIT was balled up seriously on both spots. That fly day, most the fish came off 1 spot, just like the Tail spinner day. On the Tail Spinner day we caught 12 on one point in 4 hours.....

The week after that , we caught 10-12 a day for 3-4 days, then it really slowed down to single digits, from there on.

There were a couple days the week after Christmas that we caught them good on the fly with a couple over 5........

ALL in all........IT was a GREAT, GREAT time.

Later,

Geo

Can you elaborate on the fly day???

[GeoFisher]

Can you elaborate on the fly day???

One creek..........I won't mention which one. Fished back a ways, no bites........Turned on side imaging and imaged back further. Actually further than I'd normally fish.

If you've ever taken Dave Stewart's classes, you know the last bend in a creek is a "magic" spot. Well for a 30-40 yard stretch the BAIT and the BASS were stacked the freak up. and I mean STACKED.

I flipped to side and down and saw more arches than I had ever seen........ARCHES like you'd see at KY lake now with all the asian carp. I knew they were nothing but BASS, and a **** ton of them.

Andy and I flipped around and started fishing the fly.........

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom.......5 in the boat in 20 minutes. We stayed there for 2 hours and caught 12 or so. I think we had 4 before that.

And folks this was mid day.........

It was magical.


BTW "Andy" is the guy I sold my old 17 ft tracker to over 14-15 years ago. We lost touch after that, and a few years ago he looked me up on Facebook and said, hey, are you that GeoFisher dude from Fishin . com that I bought a boat from........

I said, Maybe . We've been friends ever since. Fished together at KY Lake, Barkley, Dale, a few lakes in Indiana, and he's been to Quetico with me.



Later,

Geo

[GeoFisher]

If you're a FB friend of mine...........

Here is the link to the Album.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...6638715&type=3

[x30wakeman]

I don’t even have FB but was able to check the pictures out. Outstanding! Thoroughly enjoyed viewing them!! Like how you guys roll with the food and adult beverages too!! Looks like many a great times were had!!!

[Les Young]

No doubt you guys had a blast & some good smallmouth in that bunch of pics too.