These are between 1.8-2lbs, Barkley Lake's the bomb!

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Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on May 14, 2013 at 4:13pm

GREAT CATCH TROY!!!!!!!!! TROPHY FISH CATCH IN MOST PEOPLES BOOKS BUDDY, CERTAINLY MINE!

Comment by Troy Dorman on May 14, 2013 at 12:18pm

Barkley apparently has the exact ingredients that are taylor made for producing trophy size shellcrackers. It's a massive body of water and they have so many places to hide and grow to these crazy sizes. From what I gather, most fisherman down there only target them during April, May and first part of June, so they don't get much pressure the remainder of the year. That allows them to pull out to deeper water and grow to tremendous sizes. All of these fish pictured are at least 12-13inches. I weighed several 11.5inch crackers and they were usually 1.5-1.7lbs which I thought was pretty dang healthy for a fish that length. The 12inch crackers were usually between 1.8-1.12lbs and the 13inchers were right at 2lbs.

Comment by Jim Gronaw on May 14, 2013 at 8:01am

Simply a phenomenal public fishery for the crackers!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on May 13, 2013 at 4:49pm

Solid Shellcrackers for sure.......