I've only fished Barren 1 time in my life, but I'm willing to give you the info I have. I fished up along the Dam with a shad rap and my partner and I caught 3 fish on it, in the right hand corner there is a Fish Attractor that held some small fish back in May. Might produce some bigger ones now. Fished some ledges or I call Big Rock Walls and no luck. But others in the group did have luck. I tried everything, from Jigs to senko's to Buzz baits, lost a 4 lb fish at the boat on the Buzz bait. Overall that is as much as I know about Barren...Sorry I couldn't help you more. Good Luck and hope the son catches a nice one.