Outdoors

First Hayes Open fishing tournament set to blast off this Saturday morning

  CELINA-A good field of participants are expected to blast off here at Pleasant Grove Recreation Area this Saturday morning for First Annual Hayes Open.   The tournament was recently renamed in honor of well-known local fallen angler James “Cobby” Hayes, who passed away this past summer at the age of 70, and was for [...]

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Headrick renames tourney to honor fallen local angler

  CELINA-For five years Stephen Headrick hosted a major fall fishing tournament here at Pleasant Grove Recreation Area known as the Dale Hollow Sportsman Citgo-Harris Oil tournament, but this year the event has a new name.   This fall’s competition will be called the “Hayes Open” in honor of Headrick’s longtime late friend and well-known [...]

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Road across Dale Hollow Dam will be closed for up to six months, Corps of Engineers says

  CELINA-The road crossing Dale Hollow Dam will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning Monday November 2, 2009 at 8:00 a.m., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports.    The purpose of the road closure is to provide space for cranes and other large equipment, and to ensure the safety of those performing scheduled maintenance [...]

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Just over 10 pounds wins August five-fish tourney

  CELINA-The third of a monthly series of five-fish-limit tournaments hosted by Friday night tournament director Luke Sherrell to compliment his regular weekly series was held here at Dale Hollow Marina last weekend, producing several good sacks and a significant total purse of $1,000–thanks to the $100 entry fee. Marty Buford and Cori White were [...]

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Local youths spend the summer working at Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery

  CELINA-Clay County residents Paige Rich, Jasmine Smith, Jordan Melton, and Ryan Blakley spent this summer working at the Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery as Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) enrollees. The three objectives of the YCC program are to accomplish needed conservation work on public lands, provide gainful summer employment to youth for approximately eight [...]

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Thursday night series’ fish-off won with less than five pounds

  CELINA-With a good turnout of 23 boats for the Thursday night ‘smallmouth-only’ series’ fish-off held last Saturday night here at Dale Hollow Marina, a good number of big fish  were expected to be seen at the dual weigh-in event, but that wasn’t the case. Only two were caught, leaving half of the top four [...]

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Hunter Safety classes set at Hermitage Springs and CCHS

  Hunting season is fast approaching, so begin planning now for hunter safety classes in Clay County.  If you were born after January 1, 1969 and are 10 years old or older, you are required to complete a hunter safety course prior to hunting in Tennessee. There will be two classes offered in Clay County [...]

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Thursday night tournaments featuring several trophy fish

  CELINA-Several big smallmouth have showed up here at Dale Hollow Marina on Thursday nights this past month during the ‘smallmouth-only’ events, including the last two which featured a pair of the trophy fish. “This is the time of year we start seeing the big fish on a regular basis,” tournament co-director Jeff Smith told [...]

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Cumberland’s tailwater trout: this trophy fishery is adjusting during drawdown

  By Tim Tipton for Dale Hollow outdoors In January 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lowered Lake Cumberland to 680 feet above sea level in order to make repairs on the dam. These repairs are expected to be completed by December of 2012. In the first two years of the lowered water levels, [...]

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Time is now to prepare for archery season

  By Brian Grossman for Dale Hollow Outdoors  Summer is in full swing, and for many folks that means spending their free time relaxing by the pool, having bar-b-ques with friends, or for those of us with kids – spending long days at the ball park.   For the diehard bowhunter, though, this is the [...]

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Local angler zeroes in on big smallmouth over the weekend

  DALE HOLLOW-Local angler Michael “Smiley” Savage took back-to-back ‘smallmouth-only’ victories this past weekend by carrying a big smallmouth to the scales here Thursday night at Dale Hollow Marina and Saturday night at Star Point Resort. He captured the first win with his son Colby and the second to top off the weekend with his [...]

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Tournaments feature an abundance of big smallmouth over the weekend

  DALE HOLLOW-Nearly a dozen trophy smallmouth were carried to the scales here on the lake at four different tournaments this past weekend, including two that surpassed the five-pound mark. “It was a good week for the big girls,” Star Point tournament director Randy Roysden said Monday.  “We had five brought in and they had [...]

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Second monthly 5-fish-limit event blasts off Friday night

  CELINA-The second of a monthly series of five-fish-limit tournaments hosted by Friday night tournament director Luke Sherrell to compliment his regular weekly series will be held here at Dale Hollow Marina this weekend. The June event featured several good sacks and a significant total purse worth over $1,800–thanks to the $100 entry fee, and [...]

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