Basically here is my take on present conditions. There are post spawn and bedding fish on both lakes. These are early spawning fish that went to bed a little earlier than normal with the record temps we had last month. Most of the fish are back on track now and Barkley has plenty of late prespawn fish in the flowers and brush with some still moving in. Kentucky is a little behind Barkley which is normal....plenty of fish still staging to come in shallow on the lead in banks with some fish starting to show up in the flowers and brush for late prespawn feed but majority not there yet...but should be very soon.
Fished the mid Barkley area on Friday.....good fish in the flowers and on lead in banks, all prespawn. Fished N. Barkley on Sunday...tougher bite but two days of blue skies and hundreds of tourney boats made the bite somewhat scattered..one or two here and there...just had to move a lot to get them...Fished N. Barkley yesterday with cloud cover and approaching front....fish were on fire in the flowers...prespawn fish.
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