The fishing is still good at Dale Hollow. I spent the day there yesterday and while the largemouth bite is tough the smallmouth bite is still very strong. I spent half the day fishing for largemouth and half the day fishing for smallmouth. It's not terribly hard to catch largemouth but it's not like it was the last couple weeks and I never caught one over 4lbs. I spent my time fishing for largemouth in the back of creeks and caught them on a spinnerbait, buzzbait, and a frog.
The smallmouth bite is still strong on the main lake in likely spawning areas. I caught all my smallmouth on swimbait.
Some of the largemouth seem to be spawning as a few were skinny and beat up. I only saw 2 beds yesterday and one had a nice fish on it but wasn't really locked on. We caught quite a few smallmouth and not one showed any signs of spawning, they were all still very fat and healthy looking.
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