My Father and I took a trip to Dale Hollow on Monday for a couple days. The fishing was tough during the day because night fishing is still the way to go for a few more weeks anyway. We made the best of it, since we just had a rental boat and couldn't take it out at night but we managed a few smallies. I got the first bite a nice 2.5-3lb smallie on a LC sammy, but he came unhooked at the boat. Thats pretty much the way day one went. My dad caught 3 or 4 small fish on a pop'n image, and I missed 3 more on the sammy.

Day two started out alright Dad caught 1 or 2 on the popper and I caught a decent 1.5lb on a buzzbait. When the sun came up the fishing was dead. We went in for lunch and returned about 3 til dark only got one bite on a yamamoto DT grub on a football head jig. It was the best fish of the trip she went 3.75 on the digital scale.

All in all it wasn't the best trip but we had a good time and we didn't get skunked. Here's the picture....

Dang picture is too big, how do I resize it?

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http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/ff351/bassakwards_08/Smallie1.jpg

Very nice!  I need to head north and catch some of those jokers.

Beautiful fish, Congrats.