Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources staff artist Rick Hill (left) and “Kentucky Afield” Television Host, Tim Farmer (right) admire a smallmouth bass Farmer caught from Dale Hollow Lake in early spring.
By Lee McClellan
From Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources
The numbing cold of this past winter has fishing rhythms well behind most years. March is normally one of the best best fishing times of the year for trophies, but this year it will be April as water temperatures are just now breaking into the upper 40s on these lakes.
FRANKFORT, Ky. – You hear about Lake St. Clair, Mille Lacs, Lake Erie and the upper Mississippi River as waters that produce the best smallmouth fishing in the United States.
As far as catching numbers of smallmouth with many of those larger than 4 pounds, you can’t...