I'm back up here in the Louisville area working, I haven't fished in about 10 days. The last time on Barkley my wife caught three dandies that went between 1lb8oz-1lb12oz.

I fished my butt off for them from mid to late April to late May this year and did best around the full moons and new moons. We caught 21 crackers on the Friday of the May full moon. I write all of this stuff down, that way I can refer back to years gone by and when we did well.

A guide who is what I would call an authority on redear, told me he caught 150 big ones in early May and then the cold weather came in and forced them back to deeper water. He also told me the redear are doing great in KY and Barkley Lakes. He caught his biggest redear ever in early May, it was over 14inches and weighed between 2.5-3lb.

I hate the fact that they are so hard to locate outside of Spring. We are moving down to Barkley in about 6 weeks, I plan on fishing deep water humps along the channels to see if I can pattern those redear this summer and fall.