I have fished North Kentucky Lake for years and I have never seen the crappie fishing this bad. According to KDFW there has been some bad spawn years and I think that is playing the biggest role in not catching any bigger fish. I am seeing a lot of year 1 & 2 class fish and have been catching a lot of small fish. We fished a fruit jar tournament 11/22 and my team never caught a crappie. We checked over 40 stake beds and it looked like a dessert on the beds. One team did catch a lot of schooler fish so it goes to show there are some fish somewhere. The teams that fished south seemed to do pretty good. In the last few weeks I have scanned over 200 stake beds and it has been the same thing over and over again. Nothing holding on the beds. I talked to some guides that fish the north end and they are seeing the same thing. They are fishing for yellow bass if that tells you anything. I think it will be a couple of years before the populations cycle up. I fished Barkley in the 70's and 80's and watched the same thing there. Major cycle changes with hardly any fish anywhere. I do think the carp are making a big change in how the fish are behaving and it has to hurt the food chain. You can't introduce that kind of huge fish populations with out changing something. I look for some changes in the regulations also which is always very controversial.