Thanks Jim, I agree with you on your suggestion, there's a conservation issue for both BASS/KBFN & FLW/KBF. I guess just like the bass and other fish will do is we as fishermen and fisherwomen will have to adapt, start throwing alewife colored baits. As they do frequent deeper water, and at this time of year, the bass have a great food source, that is in easy reach, since most bass are deep anyway. And also since there has been a lot of big sacks weighed in earlier this year, in most tourneys it took over ten lbs just to look at the leader board, lot of high teens and 20lb sacks this year, most of the fish are at release spots,lol. Barren is like that, always has, probally always will be, up and down, I was raised on that lake, just wish that they would leave it full or almost full, year round. Also I heard today that B.A.S.S writer Tim Tucker was killed in an auto accident in Fla, so sad, he was a great writer and photographer.