My brother and I fished July 4th through 6th on the Maddox bay lakes. Every day was slow. The fish that we caught were on Upper Forked trolling blue/white jigs 4 feet deep in 8 to 10 feet of water near structure. We barely got out of the lake through the ditch because the water was falling on the 6th. Now I see that the White is dropping almost a foot a day. In my opinion, the refuge lakes are done until the fall. You may catch some trolling the main bays but the water will have to stabilize first.