Thread: Barren Lake

Originally Posted by johnboy1

Thanks Slabseeker1 for some great information on barren, and looks like you had a great day. Just wondering water kind of water you were fishing, sounds like you were in deep water "main lake" area with you fishing beds.

Great days are like grandma's biscuits, perfect when when you have the right ingredients. We caught fish in six to fifteen foot, temps in the low fifties. Main lake and in the creek arms. I think the lake is purging itself of the mud and high water. The key to success right now is to eleminate where the fish AIN'T. I've fished Barren enough thru the winter that I've learned to deal with it, high water and muddy water will be around same as the fish. Like I said in the first post, "We fished thru several beds before getting the stink out of the boat. I doubt we spent more than ten minutes on a spot if we didn't get as much as a hit. Just because your marking fish on a bed, doesn't mean they're gonna bite. Unless your out on the lake looking to mark fish, MOVE ON. By the way, this is as much a sermon for me as it is anyone. I spend way too much time fishing, not enough catching.

Originally Posted by slabseeker1

Great days are like grandma's biscuits, perfect when when you have the right ingredients. We caught fish in six to fifteen foot, temps in the low fifties. Main lake and in the creek arms. I think the lake is purging itself of the mud and high water. The key to success right now is to eleminate where the fish AIN'T. I've fished Barren enough thru the winter that I've learned to deal with it, high water and muddy water will be around same as the fish. Like I said in the first post, "We fished thru several beds before getting the stink out of the boat. I doubt we spent more than ten minutes on a spot if we didn't get as much as a hit. Just because your marking fish on a bed, doesn't mean they're gonna bite. Unless your out on the lake looking to mark fish, MOVE ON. By the way, this is as much a sermon for me as it is anyone. I spend way too much time fishing, not enough catching.

Thanks a million for the feed back Slabseeker, you have been a great help to many of us in the education of crappie fishing on this sit, and I hope that I can meet you some day and exchange a fish story or two, that is if I ever figure it out how to catch these things.