If there's water up in the living trees along the banks of Barkley ... say, 3-5ft deep ... and the water is "dirty" but not muddy ... someone needs to fish right against those live trees with a minner/cork about 1.5ft deep. Bonus scenario would be to find a old dead tree that was flooded. Fish that minner all the way around the trees, or at least on all four "sides" ... and don't drop the minner/cork farther than a foot from the tree.

Worked for me, many moons ago !! Crappie were nosed right up against those flooded trees, and even prop wash wouldn't push them away !! Now, this was in April, when it happened to me ... and we did only catch White Crappie ... but, it's still worth a try (providing you can get your boat back into the inundated tree line). Oh, and it worked on KY Lake, too !!

... cp