They can be a blessing for fishermen suffering from summer doldrums.
Fishing gets better.
The gates are opened late each summer to begin lowering the levels from the high summer pools to the lower winter pools at Grenada, Enid, Sardis and Arkabutla Lakes. That big a drop affects fish. Because these are all flat-bottomed lowland reservoirs, a drawdown of that many feet exposes a lot of the bottom. That drop pushes fish out, beginning with white crappie and then bass. White crappie move quickly, Meals said, heading to the open waters of the main lakes.