Marty - that's almost the same trip Mike and I did around Christmas time.
With the same results.
Smithville had a HUGE fishkill there about a year and a half ago. I was there with a bunch of other guys fishing and as we got closer to the dam there were thousands of fish dead on the surface....bass, pickerel, shad, catfish....
We reported it to DNR but never heard anything back about it.
I don't know if this would have affected the spillway area but my guess is probably since whatever bacteria, virus or germ killed the fish in the lake would have drained into the spillway too.
In the summers there it's nearly impossible to fish there, and getting a boat through the grass is a major task. If it weren't for my gas motor I'd still be stuck in the middle almost two years later.
