Don't know about Ky/Barkley .... but, Taylorsville Lake sure enough has them. Was there this past Saturday, and Shad were EVERYWHERE !! I had 5-6 baitballs showing on the DF screen, many times during the day. Some so thick with Shad that the image was a solid white blob !! There seemed to be about 3 different sizes of them ... of the ones I saw, anyway ... ranging from the less than 2" to the 4-5" lengths.

What surprised me was that I never saw any Hybrid Striper "jumps" ... other than the occasional single. But, considering all the Shad we saw ... I guess they really don't have to herd the schools to the surface to feed on them (& probably why we didn't get any hits when we were trolling for them).

... cp