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It was beyond tough the last 7 days. We started the week at 361+ and watch the plugged pulled. The cold push the fish deed and seemed to be suspended everywhere over 12' or so. Only few up shallow were big fish. I so catching big fish but all day for 4 or 5 bites was not what i came down to vacation for. Big spinnerbait was the key. All big fish came that way. Shakey heads and c-rigs caught dinks in about 7-8' on leadin'. 7 fish in the 5-6 lb class and very very few others. My father really struggle. The leadin fish are so white and cold. Was really weird this week no fishing pressure and no fish. Though week on barkley Linton to crab ck. Clean water was better bite.
Tuesday was a fun morning. We fished a tourney against my brother and his buddy. Dad didn't enter bc he had been struggling..lol.. We had 5 keepers by 6:45, but all 5 were between 2 and 2.7lbs. They too were all on a buzz. They were in flowers!! I don't care the size if I can catch fish on a buzz in the flowers. That might be weird, but that's me! I love them bass in them flowers. I caught one later that day 3.15 on a buzz. We were texting pics back and forth with the bass on scales and that fished stayed at 4.1 until the pic, but then the pic showed 3.15. Turns out, my brother and buddies best 5 were 3 oz. Better then our best 5. If that fish was 4.1, they would have got us by an ounce..lol.. We had a great time with my brother and father. Nothing like fishing trips with family! We camped at canal campground. Almost 90 percent of our fish came in creeks so skinny you could not get your boat back in winter pool. We like to fish shallow and we went as far back in these two creeks til it was so shallow we had to turn around and we were still catching bass when we turned around. It was the weirdest fishing at Barkley ever. We could not catch a fish in a bush or any"normal" place. Everyone we spoke with struggled big time. We caught em, but no hogs. Still had lots of fun.my dad started catching them on main lake road beds the last couple days to salvage his trip. He picked up twin 4lbr. On one road bed in bout ten minutes. The fish were biting if u could find them.