There are very few places that live up to the word "legendary," but you'll find one of those places on the Tennessee/Kentucky border, about an hour north of Nashville. This legendary place can claim some of the biggest smallmouth bass that have ever been caught. It's truly a place of legends. Welcome to the Legend of Dale Hollow Lake. This latest episode in the Fishing Towns series presented by the Bill Dance Signature Lakes and Tennessee Vacation explores a fishery and fishing-town community th

Meet the fish that put the word "legend" in legendary Dale Hollow Lake. In early July of 1955, local angler David Hayes hooked an 11-pound, 15-ounce behemoth of a smallmouth bass while trolling a white plug for walleye. Sixty-nine years later, that fish still stands as the all-tackle world record for smallmouth bass, and is part of the reason why Dale Hollow is revered as one of the greatest bass fisheries in the world. If you've seen the photo of Hayes with this titan, you can't really apprecia

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