It was not Ky Bass but B.A.S.S, yes the corp cannot control the weather, but they said that they would start holding it earlier to get it to pool by then, but if mother nature does not coop then I quess BASS will have some problems. I still question on why Barren for this big event, do manily to the fact that it is a flood control lake and very unpredictible,I do not think that this was really though out, if B.A.S.S requires a certain amt of surface of water to have these types of tourneys. I fished a fed nation south div in 2008 at Santee Cooper and that lake was 4 ft low, and with an avg depth of around 5/6 ft when full, it was interesting, I broke my t motor off due to so shallow and severl boats lost lower units as it was a very dangerous lake at that time. So it sometimes seems that MONEY talks and they have these divisionals where they get the best deals. I know that Barren is very unstable in the spring, I have lived here all my life and have seen it go from winter pool to 25 ft over summer pool in a few days, like last year and also back in the 80's it was in the parking lot at the state dock. I hope that this will work out, and it goes well, but with the way the weather has been in the last few years, it seems dicey.I for one would have thought lake Cumberland would have been the best choice, as it is has the surface area and also is not a draw down lake. But It dont matter to me now as I did not qualify this year.