Outdoors
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 [...]
ContinuedLocal 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 [...]
ContinuedTournaments 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 [...]
ContinuedSecond 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 [...]
Continued2009 above average, but fighting uphill battle in erasing 3-year rainfall deficit
By KEVIN DONALDSON CELINA-The first half of 2009 hasn’t been a drought-buster by any means, but it is running considerably ahead of the precipitation totals registered here the past three years. Three months with six-plus inches of rainfall has put 2009 about a month ahead of the 30-year average, coming on the heels of [...]
ContinuedThursday night tournaments averaging well over 30 boats
CELINA-Over 60 competitors have assembled here at Dale Hollow Marina on Thursday nights this past month to fish the ‘smallmouth-only’ events, with the last two featuring 34 teams of fishermen. “We are tickled to death to see such great participation this year,” tournament co-director Jeff Smith told the HORIZON Monday. “It’s a testament to [...]
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“Swinging bridge” open again at Pleasant Grove
DALE HOLLOW-The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Dale Hollow Lake has given public notice that the suspension bridge at Pleasant Grove Recreation Area in Clay County is open and available for use. An inspection in April of this year revealed structural problems that posed potential safety risk and deemed it unsafe for [...]
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6-pound sack takes first place from large field Thursday night
CELINA-Marty Buford and Billy Joe Botts took home the top spot here at Dale Hollow Marina last Thursday night at the ‘smallmouth-only’ tournament with an ‘over and under’ limit weighing 6.12 pounds. They pocketed $240 from the series’ first 30-boat field of the year, thanks in part to their 4.62-pound smallmouth over 21 inches [...]
ContinuedSpillway release at dam generates lots of interest here, there and everywhere
By KEVIN DONALDSON The recent spillway release at Dale Hollow Dam certainly generated more interest than anything in a long time in the community, at least things of a non-political nature. The interest wasn’t just in the community, either. People familiar with the lake from visits here over the past few decades were quite [...]
ContinuedWater Safety promoted in gateway communities
Dale Hollow Lake is a vacation destination, which also receives an abundance of local and regional visitors-about 3 million a year. Each of these visitors will enter the lake through a gateway community: Burkesville and Albany in Kentucky and Celina, Livingston, and Byrdstown in Tennessee. The staff at Dale Hollow is committed to sharing [...]
ContinuedSaturday night tourney captured with a 3-fish limit of smallmouth
CELINA-Brandon Cross and Michael “Smiley” Savage teamed up to win the latest Saturday night tournament held here at Dale Hollow Marina this past weekend with the first 3-fish limit of smallmouth the series has seen since its inception. The team used a smallmouth over 21 inches long weighing 4.06 pounds and two under 16 [...]
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