Drawdown fishing

[Chefdave]

As I was fishing on Saturday, I was thinking that the fish should soon be headed into the creeks following the shad. The problem I have is that is seems that as soon as the fish start moving back, the corps. starts to drop the lake. My question is do the fish move back out towards the main lake or do they just pull out deeper where they are? Anyway, I cant stand the thought of winter on it's way and just want to make the best of it while I can. Also during draw down, Is is best to fish "Up the river"? It's my understanding that the fish in the river are less affected by the falling water. Any insight would be appreciated.

[CTFSHWHISKER]

my experience with this is they are eating for winter and they will be where the bait is.I fish nolin almost exclusivly and last week i caught lots of fish in less than 3ft if water crankin.When the hard drawdown starts i still catch em shallow if the bait is there, they just move with the water and bait.I fished the river last week it was full of shad but most of the fish were already back in the pockets that had bait in them.
good fishin
whisker

[Chefdave]

Thanks for the info. I had an awesome day saturday at nolin. So much so I thought about calling in sick this A.M. but I just couldn't do it. I'll Probably be down there this weekend. There is a pretty good cold front coming from what I hear. It'll probably give em a pretty good case of lockjaw.

[CTFSHWHISKER]

Chefdave,
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