Quote Originally Posted by Joel_FOM View Post
I was in the COE office today on other business and they told me that they are dropping the bottom out of Barren starting today. They want to hit summer pool this weekend.
Figures. Why couldn't they just not hold as much water back to begin with? That way we would only have to worry about catching fish on the rise. Now we have to try and catch fish on a fast rise and on falling waters. If there was a better way to screw up the fishing at Barren I think the Corp would be all over it. It just seems so simple to think that yes we will have rains in the spring that will bring the lake up, so why not just not bring it to summer pool so quickly and keep it 5 to 8 foot below summer pool until the spring rains have tapered off somewhat? Plus let some water go too.

Bassbug that was an excellent question. My answer was just my educated opinion. To get more opinions and answers to your question you may want to post it on crappie.com forums. That is where I spend the bulk of my time as crappie are the fish that I target most. I do find this site useful for the lake levels, but the fishing reports seem pretty useless to me with the exception of Dave Stewart's as his and the lake cumberland report are the only ones that seem to get updated with any regularity.