Quote Originally Posted by numbuts View Post
i would check with fish and game about that. barren river lake has a 12-15" slot and a 15" min size limit and you can only have 1 in the slot all others must be over 15"
I think Barren used to have a slot, but it doesn't any more. Now it has kind of weird limits on large- and smallmouth bass:
• Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass:
15-inch minimum size limit except 1 fish in the daily creel limit or 2 in the possession limit may be less than 15 inches long.

http://fw.ky.gov/pdf/2012fishguideregs.pdf

But it's similar to a slot in one respect: When the biologists set limits like that, they WANT people to keep at least some smaller fish. It doesn't happen much, but that's what they're trying to encourage.