I was on Barkley Friday- Sunday on the north end and had one of my worst outings. In 2 days of fishing, I had only 3 fish above 2 pounds and not many fish in absolute numbers. Most of my luck was around points on the mainlake and dying vegitation when I could find it. Lipless cranks, Sammy's and a C-rig produced most of the fish. Had two nice fish on a Pointer 100 Sunday morning but both came unhooked before I could get them to surface. Was moving the jerkbait very fast in the back of a a bay where shad were as think as they could be.

To say the shad are scattered is an understatement. Middle of the lake, ledges, mouths of bays and backs of bays at any given moment in time and only one of the mornings did I see bass busting the shad.

Hope the water cools a bit more and we can get into a full fall pattern.