Fished Barren yesterday afternoon for about 2 hours. Water temp was 55-58 degrees on my temp guage. Nicely stained. Fished the mouth of Skagg's and had a darn good time. Started on a point and broke my Carolina rig off on the first cast. Picked up a crank bait and caught the nicest spot I've caught all year also on the first cast. A nice fat one all of 3 pounds and some change. Fished up and down a sunny bluff and caught 12-15 more spots from bait sized to 14 inches. Missed several more including a couple over 12 that jumped and spit the bait. Lost one I wish I could have seen that pulled plenty of drag before popping loose. Don't know about LM or SM, but the spots are hungry and mean as a snake.