Thread: Dale Hollow On a Really Tough Day (Jan 23, 2020)

Managed to catch a nice limit of crappie yesterday on Dale Hollow despite the rainy weather. On my early morning drive to the lake I drove thru snow flurries. By the time I finally got there, the sun started breaking through, but by 10am clouds started rolling in and by 11am a misty rain started falling. Noontime brought heavier rain causing me to break out my rainsuit. When I finally quit about 3pm the rain was still falling. However, I managed to find fish 18 ft deep in 20 FOW. Funny thing was I had to be in 20 ft...not 19 ft or 21 ft. I even tried shallower water 12-14 ft but only managed to catch 2 bluegill and one largemouth bass of about 5.5 lbs who dared to bite a 1/16th oz crappie jig tipped with a minnow and provided me with quite a tussel. (My Southern Crappie rod handled him without any trouble.) Thankfully he was on an outside pole of my spider-rigging spread. Ended up catching 29 fish from which I kept the 15 in the picture. The largest there in the cooler was about 1.5 lbs. Oh yeah, I caught three other bass ranging from 2 to 3.5 lbs in the 20 ft water all on crappie minnows. All in all it was a good day despite the weather and after the steady rain started falling, I had part of the lake I was on all to myself.

Nice mess!


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