Lake Barkley Info

[Col Forbin]

secrets, secrets, secrets..... In all honesty barkley has been good, although I rarely ever fish that far down south on it. I think the majority of the fish should be moving a little deeper. The warm weather has raised the temps over the last week, and fish should be on a post-spawn or early summer pattern. You may be able to luck into a few good ones on top water early and very late in the day. But other than that I would concentratel on channel points and creek channel banks with some structure on them. I know the ledges can be frustrating, I am just learning to find and fish them, but they can be fun and rewarding as well. Check out Dave's report, but I would guess that a carolina rig on the deeper drops, maybe with a baby brush hog, maybe some dt 16's in in bluegill and parrot, and a 1/2oz + jig in green pumpkin with some other accent colors will produce. Dave doesn't BS in his report, whatever is in there has been producing.

[TEFNKY]

Thanks Guys!! That will be very helpful !!! I hope we get into a mess of them. They would really like that.

[kc]

I can second what Col Forbin said on patterns. I fished Barkley some last week end and caught several smaller fish shallow on surface baits Saturday morning as rain was approaching but could not duplicate Saturday evening or Sunday morning. I didn't not catch many "out" but the ones I did find were scattered and in the outer parts of the bays. I did best on soft plastics on drop offs. Even the fish I caught shallow I didn't feel were obvious spawners (thin, no bloody tails) so they may have just moved up for the shad. The water temp jumped a bunch from first thing Saturday to Sunday with the warmer temperatures and sunshine in the afternoons.

[TEFNKY]

Thanks for the info guys!!! We had a GREAT TIME!!!

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