I don't know your name sir but dale hollow is a very very special place and next spring I'm coming to dale hollow to catch some smallmouth bass . Thanks for the video and God bless you and your family.

My wife and I got married in Albany, Ky 34 years ago and went fishing there afterwards for our honeymoon.

Great video! Greetings from Illinois, Gusty here. I believe I have just caught the Illinois State Record Smallmouth! On the Mississippi River. I realest the fish in fear of it passing away due to the stress of the fight. The video is up on my channel. I would love to come fish 🎣 at the Lake you are speaking about in this video! Sounds like the best place in the world 🌎 to old Gusty here. I’ll subscribe today!

I feel like I honestly hooked one well over 10lbs maybe 12lbs or more and the NEW world record... I was fishing in Nickajack Reservoir below Chickamauga Dam about 2 miles. I was in the middle of the the Tennessee River... right on the edge of the main river channel. TVA was running about 3 or 4 of the Chickamauga dam's turbines to make electricity for the surrounding areas. For bait that day... I was using some rather large 4" to 6" freshly caught live crawfish (a very abundant & kinda pale colored, mean, & are a really fast swimming species w/ really long skinny pinchers that almost look like a pair of needle nose or split ring pliers) which I had just caught by hand from under rocks, logs, leaves, and in the weeds also in a local small to medium sized creek that spills into the river close by... I had them hooked around the midsection. Just a little bit behind the base of the the crawfishes tail, I had them rigged with a clear o-ring like the type you'd use on a wacky rigged Senko, with a #1 or #2 circle hook tied on with a Palomar Knot to my brand new & un-used as of yet... pretty much elite priced very much high dollar but excellent quality 100% fluorocarbon line.. I was spooled up on my spinning reel with about 150 or so yards of really thin diameter & almost 100% completely invisible under the water (did I say it was expensive yet??? I'm thinking that it was about 30 bucks for the spool of it... Seaguar Brand 6 lb 100% fluorocarbon line, without any type of weight at all, and was just drifting the crayfish with the current with a pair of 7' spinning rods with a fast tip. So as I was unhooking the first football of the day, I noticed my other rod moving and hit the bail to freeline it for about 3 to 5 seconds until I let the other 16" or so brown fish back into the river. As soon as I get the rod it my hand I just leaded the rod back and kinda sweeping it it to the side while I pulled about 3 times quickly but not so hard to jerk the hook from a fishes mouth. Immediately the Bass shook her her head HARD and fast about 3 or 4 times as she swam just as hard and fast to the surface from about 17' down. The fish broke the surface, and went airborne to about 3 feet high, and shook itself every which way but loose from that high dollar Owner circle hook. So, now that I have seen that this huge brown fish is a 25" plus GIANT I clicked the drag off about 2 or 3 clicks and thought, well I surely don't want it to break my line on a surge from seeing the boat... As soon as the bass hit the water after her 2nd jump 80' to 100' feet upstream from me... she went straight towards the bottom and then like the old smart beast she obviously was... Immediately proceeded to swim upstream as hard as she could go against that 4 or 5 mph current, firmly set but not 100% normal drag like it was literally nothing. I tightened the drag back down to normal and she just kept going. She pealed off 50 to 60 YARDS of 6lb Seaguar Fluorocarbon in about 10 seconds upstream all the while doing what she wanted 100% and without me being able to turn her, make her jump, or stop her. I thought, " Wow...What in the wide world of sports is this blame huge fish doing...??? 🤔 Well, about 3 or 4 more seconds after that... I found out.. I felt her stop pulling so straight and the last couple of yards she went to the left & then back to the right... I remember those last quick darting movements with my tight line as she swam around & then back into, or thru... but, 100% somehow she had made it was, and was most definitely stopped now that she was under SOMETHING!!! So, after being stopped for about 2 or 3 seconds I guess that she decided to shake her head again and then my line got cut by the piece of structure she had swam so hard to get upstream back to... She'd swam back to where she lived, or maybe rather her "safe place or hideout spot" I guess... but, I know she had swam in an absolutely 100% DIRECT upstream line peeling, drag stripping run (in such a hard non stop way... that I literally don't believe she could've made a time any faster...) all the way until she had managed to get back to...then, around and back under maybe either a rocky outcropping, or hump, a big cave made by a slab of rock, or even some leftover chunks of concrete from forms to make the C.B Robinson Bridge which crosses the Tennessee River...(I was just about 100 to 150 yards downstream of it) Anyway... it wassomething that felt exactly like that type of hard rocky material. I felt her swim through it with that ultra sensitive line and my spinning rod. Anyway... True story... She was a Giant. I have landed about 4 Largemouth Bass over 10lbs. with my biggest weighing 12lbs. 1 oz... I've caught dozens over 7 or 8 lbs... I tell you what that fish was a very old, very smart, very strong, and VERY lucky fish... She would have been caught weighed on certified scales... and would be swimming around and getting bigger in either the Nickajack Reservoir Exhibit or another Exhibit by hrrself at the Tennessee Aquarium which is just downstream from that fishes lair about 5 or 6 miles. Thanks...

@roman-td4vi

3 жыл бұрын

JESUS MAN :0

@edmelungeon2239

Жыл бұрын

That's alot of lying....

@wallacebell4311

5 ай бұрын

I took a picture of a huge smallmouth bass and then released the fish. Later on I weighed the picture and would you believe it, the picture weighed 12 pounds! I will stick to my story as long as you stick to your story!!!

it's the Castaic Lake for smallmouth lol

There are to many numbers now I believe. Lot of 3 to 5 pounders now which is great. I just don't believe there are going to be any more 10 pounders until the numbers go down a little

@talltimber4577

4 жыл бұрын

That’s what happens when you put a slot limit like that in place. You will never have 10 pounders as long as it is place. You will have 3 to 5 pounders all day long. That is sad because the lake can grow them that big.

@zekethefishgeek8690

3 жыл бұрын

Big Smallmouth Bass are truly so so so smart that they are literally smarter or harder to fool than almost any(maybe all) of the other black bass species and they just don't get fooled or caught almost ever... they're there... they are just too smart. Clear water with great vision means almost zero mistakes from a fish that's been hooked before. You might not believe that it's REALLY the truth... But, when you're finally up in Heaven... ask GOD, and will tell you I wasn't lying to you about the numbers of giant, magnum, record sized SUPER Smart, (Truly Hyper Aware of their surroundings) Small Mouthed, Brown colored, Tiger Striped, Mean Micropterus sp...

@alabamaoutdoors4468

3 жыл бұрын

@@zekethefishgeek8690 I catch a lot of big bass on 12 lb test spin rig because its harder for fish to see

Hold up you gotta throw all the smallmouth back in that lake yea that’s a joke if I catch a 5 pound smallmouth it’s going on the wall end of story

@jimlahey3919

28 күн бұрын

It’s 2024. All you need to get a fish mount is a couple pictures and measurements. You don’t have to kill the actual fish to get a mount done