Thread: Anyone been on Barren?

Crappie are starting to bite at night on minnows slow trolled or tightlined around channel bluffs, not really relating to wood right now, or the ones I am catching are not. They are suspended and relating to baitfish. Water temperature has really warmed up. It was 66 degrees first of last week and 73 degrees Monday night. This has helped the bite to. Pick a main lake channel bluff, use flourescent line, put multiple poles out at different depths and watch your line very,very, closely. This will be probably be one of the slowest bites you have ever seen. They are really finicky and slow at times. Then the next one will make you think its a hybrid. They will put slack in your line and your pole will never move. Don't hesitate to put a few poles out deep right now20-25ft. deep. Watch your graph more than anytime right now. If it shows an abundance of baitfish you may need to give it a few minutes. I usually run one light that I put down in the water. Good luck.

Sounds to me like I missed the spawn. It is in more of a summer pattern now. I don't have a boat with any electronics anymore. Just a jon boat. I ussually catfish in the winter and crappie in the pre-spawn and into the spawn then give it up due to the bugs carrying me off at night.