You got to get closer to the dam. Last week before I fell on a slippery rock, had some fair action wading. Even had small blue gills following my small rapalas, a canoe would work, I may drive down to georgia, and retrieve my porte a bote, that thing will go through very shallow water. The temps below burkesville last week were in the low 70s, today the river looked like pea soup,We need about 5 inches of rain wayup in the head waters before they generate any water. I love to fish the river in the summer, but I think that thoswe days are gone till the lake level goes up.