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You're obviously not supposed to bring your own outboard powered aluminum craft and add an extra boat to the lake. People have bent the meaning of "float tube/kayak" real far at this point. What a legitimate kayak can do has also changed a ton since the old days though. You can easily sink 20k ...

June 4th is closed! First Wednesday of every month is a no-go.

Not sure about you mean about trying on the 31st, as all tickets were sold out on May 13th.

Maybe someone with a Saturday or Sunday ticket can be purchased.

Thanks for thinking of all of us. As for the whole season in April, I don't think so. I like the month to month. Planning that far ahead can be challenging and I can see at least May and June selling out in a moment. Speaking for myself I don't always know what my work/life schedule will be that far ...

DEFINITELY month to month. This allows greater flexibility, planning, and opportunity for people to secure tickets despite missing out on tix from a month that sells out.

This is the only question you mentioned from the poll, but given that some are chiming in with other observations/requests:

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I don’t recall if it was me, but I agree, complaining can draw the wrong attention. It’s a common thing when living out here in the sticks, all the flat landers want to do away with the dirt roads. Then the driving just gets faster and faster, leading to more problems

A yearly stocking of tilapia might. They would eat that nasty filamentous algae that infests the lake in the summer too. They would have to be restocked every year as they die off when the water temperature drops below 55F. The Mexican lakes with the big bass have tilapia (year around though). They ...

Nice car and a half width, smooth clean “ramp” into the water. Water is above where the road used to take a hard left into the cove. All the parking is perpendicular to the cove, leaving pigs main road into the water open. People were mostly wheeling kayaks to the ramp. Some guys backed up at the ...

That 1st pic is awesome.

Elaztech baits and I have a love hate relationship.

My Pros; They last for so long and have good buoyancy when you want a slower rate of fall.
My Cons; Hard to rig, and they don't play nice with other plastics and silicone. So you have to keep them away for all your ...

KillinTime wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 1:08 pm
they don't play nice with other plastics and silicone. So you have to keep them away for all your other soft baits and skirts.

I hate when you find that out too late

It finally happened for me, I had one of the absolutely epic days that Barrett is known for. Started going last year and had some solid days but this was on a totally different level. Pretty much non-stop bites all day. Don’t know what my total count was but it had to have been pushing 100. All day ...

Here's this other thread with lots of great advice: https://www.sdfish.org/viewtopic.php?p=19885&hilit=jig#p19885

I don't fish jigs much but this year on the opening weekend at Barrett I used them a lot and caught fish nearly every cast haha. I used a mix of black/blue and green pumpkin color jigs ...

You know, it's like Pourboy said yesterday when we were leaving; people sometimes hear the stories about Barrett, and think you just have to throw in a line, and you'll catch a bunch of fish, but that's not necessarily true. You still have to know how to locate fish and apply good techniques to get ...

I'd love to buy any September boat ticket. Last minute is okay as well. Please let me know!

FYI.......Barrett for 2026 season will open on May 6th, Wednesday. Closing date is Sunday, September 27th.
LGF.....D

TommyP

Ps The rumor going around that Barrett will not be open on Wednesdays is total BS, except for the first Wednesday of the month(excluding opening in May)