Thread: Barren

Looks like the first of the week might be good. I am going to try it any way.

I used to fish mostly Beaver and Skaggs but since I moved down here on the Allen Co. side I fish mostly the river.

See ya there.

I will be in the morning. Not sure if I am putting out at Walnut creek or Beaver and fish the Skaggs area.

Red 190 Pro team with a 90 Merc on the back, there will be 2 of us taking the old man with. Hollar if you are out there

Ended up putting in at the Narrows and caught 1 good keeper and a couple small cats

This is where I warmed up yesterday when I got to cold.

THought I would rebuild this thing and add to it a little bit. Just need the water to come up now.

Anyone interested in doing a stake bed build? Lets build some big ones. I can get a bunch of river cane, I got a boat.

Who's in????

thehines, believe it or not....the structure you have pictured is structure I built and put out about 4 years ago. I took my kids with me the day we put it out and made a day of it. We boated the pvc over from Beaver Creek boat ramp, set it, and then picknicked and went exploring on the shore line. They had a lot of fun doing it.

I was real new to building structure at the time and had no idea what I was doing. I placed it in this location because I had caught several nice crappie from the area in the past during the spring spawn.

Problem with putting structure out on Barren is, the Corp keeps the lake level so messed up. If you put out cover for spawning fish then everyone will easily see it when the water is drawn down. Two years ago, due to the drought, alot of the structure I had set stayed dry all year. It's a lot of work!

I think it would be best to drop some in deeper water, places where there is water year round. This would make it deep structure come summer pool, but then you'd probably have it all to yourself because most people wouldn't be targeting crappie that deep on Barren.

Hope you can catch some fish off the place this spring. Good luck!

Well I think it was a good place. I wasn't catching fish so I thought I would straighten it up a little bit. I like the piping where did you get that stuff. Just made it to a circle and added a couple more dead trees to the center.

I scavenged some construction sites and got the scrap given to me for free. Set them in concrete in my garage and then hauled them to the lake. I think it would have been bettered served a little further out on the point of the cove, but it's still a likely place to catch a fish once the water gets up.