| Of all the things I enjoy doing I think fishing is | | | | as common as sand in Florida. Dale Hollow Lake |
| right near the top. I enjoy writing, photography, | | | | was created by damming the Obey River and |
| music nature, astronomy but fishing is easily in the | | | | that river flowed through an area of tremendous |
| top five of my favorite pastimes. I have fished in | | | | rock bluffs. You can pick a spot near one of the |
| the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, the Pacific, Lake | | | | rocky points of Dale Hollow Lake and moving just |
| Champlain in northern NY and numerous lakes and | | | | 15 feet offshore can put you in water over 80 |
| rivers. In the short time I have been in | | | | feet deep. It's unlike anywhere I've ever been |
| Tennessee I have fished Dale Hollow Lake and | | | | before. The area is so unspoiled that when I was |
| Old Hickory Lake. Dale Hollow Lake was created | | | | up there a couple of weeks ago I sat in a boat |
| by the Army Corps of Engineers by damming the | | | | and watched a bobcat sitting on the shore |
| Obey River in 1943 and creating a lake bordered | | | | watching us float on by. Absolutely gorgeous. |
| by both Tennessee and Kentucky. Old Hickory, | | | | Old Hickory is a completely different from Dale |
| Named after President Andrew Jackson was | | | | Hollow. It's a developed area and you can be |
| created by damming the Cumberland River in | | | | fishing literally right in someone's backyard. While it |
| 1954. The two fishing areas couldn't be any more | | | | was also created by damming a river, as was |
| different. | | | | Dale Hollow, it is created on a flood plain meaning |
| My preference is Dale Hollow. It's remote and its | | | | there are wide areas of very shallow water. The |
| crystal clear waters are a sight to see. The fishing | | | | channel where the Cumberland flowed is marked |
| there is excellent and anglers can catch | | | | by buoys. Straying very far from these channel |
| Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Lake Trout | | | | markers can find your boat going from water |
| and other game fish. The world's record | | | | 30-40 feet deep to water only 3-6 feet deep in a |
| Smallmouth Bass was taken from Dale Hollow | | | | big hurry. The water is also nowhere near as clear |
| Lake. While I love fishing I do it to relax and | | | | as that in Dale Hollow. |
| unwind. It's nice to know some monster fish are | | | | There's fishing for everyone. I like my privacy and |
| in the lake but even if I go and catch nothing I've | | | | enjoy the natural beauty of the world around me. |
| spent a day surrounded by beautiful water, | | | | Dale Hollow is my kind of place. Pristine, quiet and |
| breathtaking mountains and forests and doing | | | | scenic. If you like that kind of fishing you'd love |
| something I enjoy doing. How can you complain | | | | Dale Hollow. However, if you like to take a boat |
| about that? | | | | to a marina and get some food, soft drinks and |
| What I enjoy most about Dale Hollow is the | | | | swap tall tales with other anglers from all over |
| scenery. It's undeveloped and almost everywhere | | | | the world then Old Hickory is the place for you. |
| you go all you see is nature at its finest. It also | | | | Either way, a day of fishing anywhere is better |
| has one feature I find amazing. If you have ever | | | | than almost anything else. |
| been through Tennessee you know rock bluffs | | | | Tomorrow, Thunder in the mountains. |
| are common. Rock bluffs of 100 and 200 feet are | | | | |
