MDWFP biologists say that winter spillway fish come from the big lake during extreme cold weather pull down. There was always good Sardis spillway activity (bite and snagging) in Dec., Jan., and Feb. until the last few years. I think this is a direct result of the wildly increased catches of main lake fish, especially when they get more concentrated in the lower third of the lake during the pulldown. If there are less fish in the big lake, there will be less fish pulled into the spillway. I think that the lack of spillway fish is just an indication of a more serious overall fish population problem.