Thread: Barkley

I put in at Double Creek on Sunday and was mainly scouting for shellcracker areas. I did have some minnows and fished structure in Nickel Bay using both, cork and minnows along with casting jigs. We didn't very good, caught a couple short crappie.

I did find an obscure little bay that doesn't even have a name on the maps that is probably the most interesting looking bay I've found for crackers. You talk about a gravel bar that dang near closes it off to navigation at this point. Saw two bald eagles in that little nook too, they were protecting their nest it appeared.

One other note, I saw a young boy carrying a five gallon bucket with what appeared to be 10 big crappie, about 13-14inchers. He caught them off of the Buzzard Rock docks...that's the best I can tell for now.

You'll miss the spawn of both, crappie and crackers at this rate. I'm concerned with how warm it is, very early spring for sure.