The draw downs hurt that lake, I used to remember when you could go to Barren and just slay them that was back in the late 70"s and early 80's, was stumps everywhere. It was one of the top rated lakes in Ky and the nation at one time. The floods and stuuf hurt some of the spawns a few years back, also like was said above it is tourneyed to death, and also there is a lot of catch and eat people that fish that lake, that hurts too, saw one guy a few years back he and his wife and father wnet out for a week staright and everyday they each caught limits of big and I mean huge smallies on live bait, manily skimmer minnows, and they keep everyone of them, I think they caught over 75 to 80 keepers in that short time span, I know for sure as I saw these fish, he lived across from me. Also the Amish are not ashamed to keep fish either. The spillway used to be awesome too but that too has died, Barren is quickly becoming Barren. That is sad.
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