Barren River Lake FLOODED Goods and bads

[Joel_FOM]

That's sad to hear about the spawn, but most of the guys I have talked to says most of the fish haven't spawned yet on Barren because that lake has a late spawn due to the fish waiting for "Water Stability" meaning they wait for the water to reach the level it will stay at for most of the summer. So maybe not all is lost here.

I don't know how many have not spawned. I do know that I weighed post spawn fish on both of the last two weeks of April and I know that I caught a dozen bed fish last Thursday in two little pockets. I hope your are right though!

[goingIke]

In 1997 we were fishing on the golf course and in the parking lots on Barren. At that time the lake was 17 feet and change above summer pool. Me and a buddy for four weekends in a row whacked bass like it was no tomorrow. I'll never forget it, everybody was catching fish. In one day about 9 hours of fishing I had over 50 bass, with 27 being keepers and many of them 3 to 4lb plus. My buddy had about 30 or so with 17 keepers, and he lost a ton. He was doing alot of LDRing that day, lol. Don't know if it will do it again but that lake can be special when it gets real high, I've seen it first hand.

Wow! that's awesome, I hope that the fishing is like that in the next few weeks to come!