Guys, the lake doesn't drop to a point that makes it unfishable even in the dead of Winter. Typical schedule is that they drop it approx 2 feet below Summer pool from 9/15-10/15. Then, on 10/15, they start pulling quite a bit more water, but it still takes nearly a month and a half for it drop the remaining 23 feet to Winter pool (usually it falls around 6 inches a day). As Big T said, it is usually Thanksgiving before it's all the way down that far. If you look at the chart on corps site at the following link: http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/wc/res...plots/nrr.html
you will see the Green line is the target pool elevation and the Black line is actualhe target line doesn't hit 490 winter pool until Dec 1st. Last year, the actual at Dec 1 was several feet above target and actually stayed a couple feet above it throughout the entire winter. Point is, there will be plenty of water to fish through October and into early Nov (and still fishable after that, you just have more limited launch options). On Nov 1, the target is approximately 507 or so according to the graph, which is only 8 feet below Summer pool. When they pull harder starting on 10/15, the crawfish really start moving and the orange belly crankbait bite gets really good. Good luck
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