I've fished both Blood River and Jonathan Creek for a number of years and caught a ton of fish from both places, and if I had to pick between the two, I'd pick Blood River. As has been said here, it is the larger area for fishing of the two. But, I'd throw something else into the mix. I'd suggest that you give the Big Sandy area of Ky Lake serious consideration. If I had one place to go fishing on Ky Lake in the springtime, it would be Big Sandy. Big Sandy is a "much larger" area of the lake than Blood River and acre for acre is the most productive crappie area of Kentucky Lake. I know that Kentucky needs tourism dollars from out-of-state fishermen, but I'm simply talking from the perspective of serious crappie fishing.