I was on I-24 Saturday around noon and looked at Barkley from the interstate and knew I had just eliminated a whole lake this past weekend. Extremely muddy and with the way the temp dropped as well the fish had to move out of the shallows. Tough fishing conditions for sure and too bad you did not have a chance for the trip that you planned. Chunknwind and I had the same deal but over 7 days a couple of weeks back. High cold muddy water pretty much eliminated Barkley for us all week and that was where we planned to fish all week when we scheduled the trip back in January. We both learned a valuable lesson that trip, "Don't expect too much or expect it to be like it was the same week last year". We did both and after 7 days of boating a bunch of fish, we never had any single day like we had several of last year. Funny thing was the week prior we had fished Barren for 2 days and landed exactly 1 fish and would have killed for any of our single days at Ky to be at Barren. Our expectations were so high that anything short of 5+ pounders each day would been a dissapointment. We live and we learn. We will be back next year doing it all over again for sure.